Latest / Crime Stories with Nancy Grace / Arrest Warrants Issued for Two Teens in Penn State Student's Shooting | Crime Alert 07.02.26
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Crime alart hourly update breaking crime news. Now. I'm Sidney Silvanni.
- 0:05Speaker 1: We begin in Philadelphia, where a hunt is underway for
- 0:09Speaker 1: two teenagers accused of cutting short the promising life of
- 0:13Speaker 1: a young college student. The Philadelphia Police Department has officially
- 0:17Speaker 1: issued arrest warrants for two sixteen year old boys in
- 0:21Speaker 1: connection with the brutal June sixth murder of twenty two
- 0:24Speaker 1: year old Billy Schmidt. Authorities are currently withholding the suspect's
- 0:29Speaker 1: names because they are miners who have not yet been
- 0:32Speaker 1: taken into custody. Schmidt, a Penn State World Campus student,
- 0:36Speaker 1: was walking home from an NBA Finals watch party at
- 0:39Speaker 1: around one thirty am when he was targeted in an
- 0:43Speaker 1: armed robbery attempt. Responding officers found him with a critical
- 0:47Speaker 1: gunshot wound to his chest. He was tragically pronounced dead
- 0:51Speaker 1: at a local hospital at one forty seven am. Surveillance
- 0:55Speaker 1: video captured Schmidt demanding give me my phone, moments before
- 0:59Speaker 1: a gun show rings out. The video shows a man
- 1:02Speaker 1: throwing a cell phone before another individual runs around a corner,
- 1:06Speaker 1: pursued by Schmidt, who was then shot. Investigators described the
- 1:11Speaker 1: shooter as a black mail between five foot three and
- 1:13Speaker 1: five foot five, wearing all dark clothing and a light
- 1:17Speaker 1: gray camouflage face mask. The second suspect is five foot
- 1:21Speaker 1: eight with braids, wearing a light gray, custom confused hoodie
- 1:25Speaker 1: featuring three skulls with crossbones and bejeweled halos. The US
- 1:30Speaker 1: Marshal Service has joined the search, offering a five thousand
- 1:33Speaker 1: dollars reward. Speaking with Fox fifty nine, Billy's father, Bill
- 1:38Speaker 1: Schmidt described the chaotic scene. I'm still just shocked that
- 1:43Speaker 1: this happened.
- 1:44Speaker 2: He was chasing a kid who took the phone, and
- 1:47Speaker 2: another kid came around and shot him.
- 1:49Speaker 1: Schmidt was studying journalism and was set to graduate this December.
- 1:54Speaker 1: Penn State released a statement saying they are heartbroken over
- 1:57Speaker 1: his tragic death and share their deepest condolences. Billy's sister
- 2:02Speaker 1: Anna Schmidt expressed her profound grief to Fox fifty nine.
- 2:06Speaker 2: Has miss him so much. I don't understand how someone
- 2:09Speaker 2: could do this to me or my family, and I
- 2:15Speaker 2: think he's just gonna walk in the door. I went
- 2:20Speaker 2: justice for him for my family.
- 2:24Speaker 1: More crime and Justice news after this, an Idaho man
- 2:29Speaker 1: who orchestrated a horrific campaign of hidden sexual violence will
- 2:34Speaker 1: spend the rest of his life behind bars. Fifty one
- 2:37Speaker 1: year old Thomas Spencer was sentenced Wednesday by Judge Annie
- 2:41Speaker 1: McDevitt to life in prison with no possibility of parole
- 2:44Speaker 1: for forty years, after pleading guilty to rape. The case
- 2:49Speaker 1: began when the FBI alerted the Ada County Sheriff's office
- 2:52Speaker 1: to a telegram group where members shared videos drugging and
- 2:56Speaker 1: raping unconscious victims. Investigators received eight videos Spencer uploaded assaulting
- 3:02Speaker 1: the victim, later uncovering hundreds more on his phone. Evidence
- 3:07Speaker 1: showed he distributed these recordings online since twenty nineteen. When
- 3:12Speaker 1: detectives contacted the victim, she identified herself in the footage,
- 3:16Speaker 1: but had no memory of the assaults. She recalled waking
- 3:19Speaker 1: up after wine with Spencer, experiencing headaches and pain consistent
- 3:24Speaker 1: with sexual assaults, and had previously confronted him over unconsented photos.
- 3:30Speaker 1: Spencer openly bragged online, using the victim's name and writing,
- 3:34Speaker 1: can't count how many times I've done that, while detailing
- 3:38Speaker 1: how he drugged her. Judge Annie mcdeviitt condemned Spencer's actions
- 3:42Speaker 1: as horrific, stating she didn't think there was a word
- 3:45Speaker 1: strong enough to describe how egregious the behavior was. In
- 3:49Speaker 1: a victim impact statement, the woman detailed years of emotional trauma, sleeplessness,
- 3:55Speaker 1: and fear, asking the court to consider the lasting, irreversible
- 3:59Speaker 1: impact on her and her children. Aida County Prosecutor Jan
- 4:03Speaker 1: Bennetts praised her bravery, stating this wasn't a stranger who
- 4:07Speaker 1: attacked in a moment of opportunity, but someone she trusted
- 4:10Speaker 1: completely who chose to violate her again and again for entertainment.
- 4:15Speaker 1: Bennetts added that the sentence sends a clear message that
- 4:18Speaker 1: this conduct will not be tolerated. Finally, a gruesome discovery
- 4:22Speaker 1: in Texas has led to the arrest of a woman
- 4:25Speaker 1: and her father. Thirty one year old Audrey Troncoso is
- 4:29Speaker 1: behind bars on a two million dollar bond, accused of shooting, stabbing,
- 4:33Speaker 1: and dismembering her live in boyfriend, thirty four year old
- 4:37Speaker 1: Ronald Matthew Shepherd. The investigation began with an anonymous Crime
- 4:41Speaker 1: Stoppers tip alleging Troncoso killed Shepherd and threw his remains
- 4:46Speaker 1: into an apartment dumpster. Police scrambled to intercept a trash
- 4:50Speaker 1: truck en route to a landfill. Inside, officers uncovered a
- 4:54Speaker 1: trash bag full of clothes, a carpet covered with fresh blood,
- 4:58Speaker 1: and a human torso with tad t U two s
- 5:00Speaker 1: matching shepherds. A search weren't executed at Troncoso's residence revealed
- 5:05Speaker 1: an even more disturbing scene. More human remains were discovered
- 5:09Speaker 1: inside tubs of wet concrete sitting in a vehicle in
- 5:13Speaker 1: the driveway. During a police interview, Troncoso allegedly confessed to
- 5:18Speaker 1: shooting Shepherd in the face, stabbing him, and using a
- 5:21Speaker 1: saw and knives to dismember his body before mixing concrete
- 5:25Speaker 1: to hide the parts. Her father, Mario Valdez Troncoso Junior,
- 5:30Speaker 1: was arrested the following day and charged with evidence tampering,
- 5:34Speaker 1: held on a one hundred thousand dollars bond. Local police
- 5:37Speaker 1: called it one of the most violent homicides in recent memory.
- 5:41Speaker 1: For more crime and justice news, be sure to join
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- 5:52Speaker 1: I'm Sidney Silvanni.