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Arrest Warrants Issued for Two Teens in Penn State Student's Shooting | Crime Alert 07.02.26 · Crime Alert Hourly Update

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