Deliveryman alleges racial remark before stabbing death of ex-PSU football player

A bicycle deliveryman accused in the stabbing death of a real estate developer during a traffic confrontation in Philadelphia last year alleges that the other man told him “I’m going to beat the black off you.”

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that 22-year-old Michael White testified Tuesday that he was afraid for his life during the July 2018 confrontation with 37-year-old Sean Schellenger near the city’s tony Rittenhouse Square.

Schellenger was a backup quarterback for Penn State in 2000 and had been working as a real estate developer in the city.

When defense attorneys in August raised the racial remark allegation, something Schellenger hadn’t previously been accused of doing, prosecutors said there was no evidence. White is black and Schellenger was white; the two men didn’t know each other.

The district attorney dropped a third-degree murder charge before trial, leaving only voluntary manslaughter and weapons counts, a decision strongly criticized by Schedllenger’s mother.