{"id":1513661,"date":"2026-06-08T10:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T15:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=ac8fd5352397ac09a4eb767f0ce72d1a"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:25:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:25:55","slug":"penn-state-student-shot-dead-near-his-home-in-philadelphia-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1513661","title":{"rendered":"Penn State student shot dead near his home in Philadelphia, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/27857e717536cafbfe514cf2b5cba44d-1.jpg\" alt\/><figcaption>William Schmidt, 22, was shot and killed about one block from his home in South Philadelphia, June 6, 2026. (WPVI)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>(PHILADELPHIA) -- Officials at Penn State University said they're \"heartbroken\" after a student was shot and killed about one block from his home in Philadelphia.<\/p><p>William Schmidt, 22, was shot at about 1:30 a.m. Saturday and officers found him lying in the road with a gunshot wound to his chest, according to Philadelphia police.<\/p><p>Schmidt was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead at 1:47 a.m., police said.<\/p><p>Authorities have not announced any arrests or any motive.<\/p><p>Schmidt was studying digital journalism and media at Penn State World Campus, the university said.<\/p><p>\"We are heartbroken over the tragic death of William Schmidt, and we share our&nbsp;deepest&nbsp;condolences with his family and friends,\" a Penn State spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p><p>Police urge anyone with information to call the homicide unit at 215-686-3334&nbsp;or submit an anonymous tip at 215-686-TIPS.<\/p><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Schmidt, 22, was shot and killed about one block from his home in South Philadelphia, June 6, 2026. (WPVI)(PHILADELPHIA) &#8212; Officials at Penn State University said they&#8217;re &#8220;heartbroken&#8221; after a student was shot and killed about one block from h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":1513671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/27857e717536cafbfe514cf2b5cba44d-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1447],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-national-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 12:57:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/27857e717536cafbfe514cf2b5cba44d-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1513661"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1513673,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513661\/revisions\/1513673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1513671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1513661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1513661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1513661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}