{"id":215292,"date":"2026-06-10T06:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215292\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T06:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T06:44:17","slug":"penn-state-student-fatally-shot-near-home-in-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215292\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn State student fatally shot near home in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPhiladelphia police are searching for suspects after 22-year-old Penn State student Billy Schmidt was shot and killed near his home during a robbery.  Father remembers son as his best friendSchmidt\u2019s father shared his heartbreak, describing his son as a \u201cgreat kid\u201d and his \u201cbest friend.\u201d  \u201cI was shocked. I ran into his room, I didn\u2019t believe it,\u201d Schmidt\u2019s father said. \u201cHe was a great kid, my best friend. He never had a problem with anyone. Very respectful.\u201d  Police say stolen phone led to deadly shootingAuthorities said Schmidt was killed when two suspects stole his phone.When he asked for it back, one of the suspects pulled out a weapon and fired a single shot, hitting Schmidt in the chest and killing him.  Recovered phone may help identify suspectsSchmidt\u2019s father later found the stolen phone under a car.Prosecutors said the phone will be valuable in identifying the suspects as detectives continue to search for evidence.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tPHILADELPHIA \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia police are searching for suspects after 22-year-old Penn State student Billy Schmidt was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/penn-state-student-killed-armed-robbery-south-philadelphia\/71527215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shot and killed <\/a>near his home during a robbery.  <\/p>\n<p>Father remembers son as his best friend<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt\u2019s father shared his heartbreak, describing his son as a \u201cgreat kid\u201d and his \u201cbest friend.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was shocked. I ran into his room, I didn\u2019t believe it,\u201d Schmidt\u2019s father said. \u201cHe was a great kid, my best friend. He never had a problem with anyone. Very respectful.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Police say stolen phone led to deadly shooting<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Schmidt was killed when two suspects stole his phone.<\/p>\n<p>When he asked for it back, one of the suspects pulled out a weapon and fired a single shot, hitting Schmidt in the chest and killing him.  <\/p>\n<p>Recovered phone may help identify suspects<\/p>\n<p>Schmidt\u2019s father later found the stolen phone under a car.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said the phone will be valuable in identifying the suspects as detectives continue to search for evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia police are searching for suspects after 22-year-old Penn State student Billy Schmidt was shot and killed near&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[94301,93293,69,71,70,2245,94302,94303],"class_list":["post-215292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-22-year-old-penn-state-student","tag-billy-schmidt","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-police","tag-shot-and-killed-in-robbery","tag-two-suspects-steal-phone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}