{"id":13348,"date":"2025-10-24T06:03:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/13348\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T06:03:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:03:32","slug":"kada-scotts-exact-cause-of-death-released-by-medical-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/13348\/","title":{"rendered":"Kada Scott&#8217;s exact cause of death released by medical examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 23-year-old went missing shortly after arriving at work at The Terrace, an assisted living facility in Chestnut Hill, around 10 p.m. on October 4. Her body was found two weeks later in a shallow grave behind the\u00a0<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/philadelphia-school-district-reviewing-protocols-remains-kada-scott-found-behind-vacant-property\/18055930\/\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vacant Ada Lewis Middle School<\/a>, near the Awbury Arboretum Recreation Center.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">On Wednesday, officials announced her manner of death was ruled a homicide and that the suspect, 21-year-old\u00a0<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/kada-scotts-cause-death-ruled-homicide-murder-charges-pending\/18057951\/\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Keon King, has been charged with murder.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">King was arraigned on the murder charge on Thursday and is being held without bail.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Scott\u2019s date of death is listed as October 18, 2025, the day her body was found in a shallow grave in the wooded area behind the vacant Ada Lewis Middle School.\n  <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Court documents filed Wednesday\u00a0<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/kada-scotts-cause-death-ruled-homicide-murder-charges-pending\/18057951\/\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">revealed new details<\/a>, including text messages between Scott and King on the day she went missing, including Scott texting \u2018kidnap me again,\u2019 to which the suspect allegedly replied, \u2018better be up too.\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Investigators say the following night, King\u2019s registered Toyota was at a nearby rec center, on camera, with two people seen taking a large object consistent with a body out of the passenger side of another vehicle.\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 23-year-old went missing shortly after arriving at work at The Terrace, an assisted living facility in Chestnut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2153,69,71,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-13348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-6abc","9":"tag-philadelphia","10":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","11":"tag-philadelphia-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}