PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Jurors resume deliberations Thursday in the case of a bicycle deliveryman charged in the stabbing death of a real estate developer during a traffic confrontation in Philadelphia last year.
Closing arguments were delivered Wednesday in the voluntary manslaughter trial of 22-year-old Michael White in the July 2018 confrontation with 37-year-old Sean Schellenger near the city’s tony Rittenhouse Square.
White argued self-defense, saying he only pulled the knife to try to scare Schellenger off. He also alleged that Schellenger made a racial remark to him. Prosecutors say there’s no evidence of that.
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 Schellenger’s mother.
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