{"id":996853,"date":"2026-08-12T22:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T22:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/996853\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T22:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T22:03:18","slug":"arrest-made-in-murder-of-penn-state-student-in-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/996853\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest made in murder of Penn State student in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news-team\/003b0fcd-4def-48bb-ad8b-2204a8b1d7fe\" aria-label=\"Lori Burkholder profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/003b0fcd-4def-48bb-ad8b-2204a8b1d7fe_1654041445.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Lori Burkholder\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Arrest made in murder of Penn State student in Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/news-team\/003b0fcd-4def-48bb-ad8b-2204a8b1d7fe\" aria-label=\"Lori Burkholder profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/003b0fcd-4def-48bb-ad8b-2204a8b1d7fe_1654041445.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Lori Burkholder\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><strong class=\"css-ncbpmr\">PHILADELPHIA \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Philadelphia police have announced the arrest of a suspect in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/penn-state-student-killed-armed-robbery-south-philadelphia\/71527215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">murder of Billy Schmidt<\/a>, a 22-year-old Penn State student who was fatally shot in the streets of Philadelphia more than two months ago.  <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/0d46de44-0fd2-4699-9fb2-d41a0c8bb99c.jpg\" alt=\"Image no longer available\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" draggable=\"true\" class=\"css-fphibt\"\/><img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/0d46de44-0fd2-4699-9fb2-d41a0c8bb99c.jpg\" alt=\"Image no longer available\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"css-hr9vxw\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Nineteen-year-old Kadafi Fleming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgal.com\/article\/19-year-old-wanted-penn-state-student-murder-linked-stolen-police-cruiser\/73406077\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">surrendered to police<\/a> overnight. He was being sought for Schmidt\u2019s murder and the theft of an off-duty officer\u2019s car.  <\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/70c21aae-b6e3-4d6c-a578-e07f7007b24a.jpg\" alt=\"Image no longer available\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" draggable=\"true\" class=\"css-fphibt\"\/><img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/70c21aae-b6e3-4d6c-a578-e07f7007b24a.jpg\" alt=\"Image no longer available\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"css-hr9vxw\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">U.S. Marshals say the public and media played an important role in bringing Fleming to justice.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Fleming\u2019s 16-year-old brother was also arrested in connection with Schmidt\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arrest made in murder of Penn State student in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA \u2014 Philadelphia police have announced the arrest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":996854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[399441,5229,399444,347404,65339,399442,1448,399443,2830,1311,18026,56182,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-996853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-22-year-old-penn-state-student","tag-america","tag-arrest-of-a-suspect","tag-billy-schmidt","tag-fatally-shot","tag-kadafi-fleming","tag-pa","tag-penn-state-student","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-police","tag-u-s-marshals","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117084804534554835","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/996854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}