We have previously noted the murder of William “Billy” Schmidt over pure stupidity, a street theft of a cell phone. It took the Philadelphia Police a few weeks to identify the killers, but once they were, one of them fled the state. The alleged killers are minors, but now the parents of one of them are in trouble:

Parents accused of driving teen charged in Penn State student’s killing to Colorado ordered to stand trial

The judge’s ruling came after prosecutors presented evidence on how they allegedly helped their son evade capture following the June killing of William “Billy” Schmidt.

by Jillian Kramer | Thursday, September 17, 2026 | 3:34 PM EDT | Updated: 4:11 p.m. ET

The parents of one of two teenagers charged with killing a Pennsylvania State University student in June drove him from Philadelphia to Colorado Springs, Colo., within hours of local television stations airing surveillance footage of the suspects police were seeking in the case, prosecutors said Thursday.

Kaiseem Smith, 16, and Azzubair Outen-Fleming, 16, are charged with murder, conspiracy, and related offenses in the shooting death of William “Billy” Schmidt, 22, who was killed June 6 after a robbery on a South Philadelphia sidewalk turned deadly.

Philadelphia police and the U.S. Marshals Service searched for Smith and Outen-Fleming for weeks before taking them into custody. Marshals found Outen-Fleming on July 1 in Colorado Springs. Smith surrendered to Philadelphia police the following day.

At a preliminary hearing Thursday, prosecutors detailed how Outen-Fleming’s stepfather, Donte Abdulmalik, 35, and mother, Milika Abdulmalik, 45, allegedly drove him more than 1,700 miles to Colorado Springs — a roughly 45-hour trip spanning several states — and how police detectives traced the journey through cell phone records and license plate reader data.

Interstate flight to avoid prosecution is a federal offense, but at least for now, the Abdulmaliks have been charged with state crimes.

Detective Thorsten Lucke testified that the couple’s cell phone records showed they began the drive around 10:30 p.m. June 10, after surveillance videos and images of the suspects aired during local 10 p.m. newscasts.

Just half an hour after the alleged killers were identified on the local news, the suspect and his parents were on the road. What are we to believe other than the parents already knew that their darling boy killed someone? Or it’s possible that they didn’t know, because they didn’t try to get their son out of Pennsylvania before he was identified on the news; their ‘escape’ certainly wasn’t well-planned, in that no one thought to turn off their cell phones.

This isn’t the same situation, but it’s not the first time that a parent has been held partially responsible for his son’s crimes: Colin Gray was sentenced to 15 years in prison for buying the rifle that his son used in a school shooting. Even a criminal-loving prosecutor like District Attorney Larry Krasner would love to have a conviction like that on his record.

The defense is contending that Mr and Mrs Abdulmalik’s cell phones traveling to Colorado does not prove that they fled with their son, only that their phones made the trip. 🙂

This case should send a message to the parents of the city’s gang-bangers and wannabes: you do stupid s(tuff), and your mother and father might wind up in jail with you.