A 22-year-old Penn State student is dead — shot in the chest over a cell phone — and the two 16-year-olds charged with his murder are still on the run, nearly a month after the killing. The blood is on the suspects' hands, but the system that made consequences optional owns a share of this too.

Billy Schmidt was walking home from watching the NBA Finals at a bar on June 6 when two teens targeted him near his family's Philadelphia residence on Durfor Street. Surveillance footage shows one suspect tossing Schmidt's phone in the air while the other waited around the corner. Schmidt chased after them, demanding his property back. "Give me my phone," he said, according to the video. A gunshot followed. Schmidt was pronounced dead at 1:47 a.m., minutes after officers found him with a wound to the chest.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner didn't announce murder and robbery charges against Kaiseem Smith and Azzubair Outen-Fleming, both 16, until a July 1 press conference — 25 days after the shooting. The warrants came even later. The U.S. Marshals Service is now leading the manhunt and offering $5,000 for each suspect. Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal Robert Clark's message to the fugitives was blunt: "Surrender now. If you choose to remain fugitives, the Marshals Service will relentlessly pursue every lead, every associate, and every tip until you are located and taken into custody."

Outen-Fleming's stepfather, 35-year-old Dante Abdulmalik, was also arrested and charged with hindering apprehension, obstruction of justice, and tampering with evidence, according to Krasner. So the adults in the room didn't exactly rush to turn these kids in.

The Daily Caller named both teen suspects; Fox News withheld their names because they are minors who haven't yet been charged — a procedural distinction that matters less when arrest warrants for murder have been issued and the public needs to identify armed fugitives.

One suspect was described as a Black male, 5'3" to 5'5", wearing all dark clothing with a light gray camouflage facemask and armed with a handgun. The other, approximately 5'8" with braids, wore a distinctive custom "KONFUSED" brand hoodie featuring three skulls and crossbones with bejeweled halos. Police say both ditched their hoodies and masks after the shooting and were seen in white T-shirts.

Schmidt was a senior at Penn State World Campus studying digital journalism, set to graduate in December. His father, Bill Schmidt, told ABC7: "He was a really good person who cared about everybody and never hurt or bothered a soul, never bothered anyone and for him to get shot like that is a travesty." His sister Anna said simply: "I miss him so much, and I don't understand how someone can do this."

Krasner's Philadelphia is a city where progressive prosecution has become a brand. When 16-year-olds feel bold enough to hunt a man for his phone and shoot him dead outside his own home, the question isn't whether these individuals are guilty — it's what environment told them the risk was worth taking.