A 22-year-old man died after being shot steps away from his home in South Philadelphia early Saturday, police said. He was a Penn State senior, according to news reports.
Police said officers from the 1st District responded at 1:32 a.m. to a radio call for a person with a gun on the 1900 block of Durfor Street. They found William J. Schmidt lying in the street, with a gunshot wound to the chest, police said.
Schmidt was returning home from a local bar where he had been watching the NBA Finals with friends, according to his father, 6 ABC reported.
Surveillance cameras captured video that appeared to show the moments before the shooting, 6 ABC reported. A man can be seen throwing a cell phone in one video, and a second later, another man runs around a corner with Schmidt chasing him, before the gunman turned around and shot him, according to another video, 6 ABC reported.
Police took Schmidt to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 1:47 a.m.
Schmidt lived on the 2300 block of South 20th Street, steps away from where he was killed, police said.
Police urged anyone Anyone with information regarding the incident to contact the homicide unit at 215-686-3334 or submit an anonymous tip by calling or texting 215-686-TIPS (8477).