{"id":13457,"date":"2025-10-24T09:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/13457\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T09:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T09:29:14","slug":"suspect-charged-with-murder-in-the-philadelphia-shooting-death-of-kada-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/13457\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect charged with murder in the Philadelphia shooting death of Kada Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"

Philadelphia authorities filed murder charges Thursday against a suspect for the death of 23-year-old Kada Scott, and investigators say they have video evidence suggesting that two people may have been involved in moving and burying her body.<\/p>\n

Delaware resident Keon King, 21, was denied bail Thursday on charges that also include robbery, abuse of a corpse, theft and conspiracy. His attorney, Shaka Johnson, did not return a message seeking comment.<\/p>\n

The medical examiner\u2019s office said Thursday that Scott had been shot in the head. <\/p>\n

To support arson and conspiracy charges against King in Scott\u2019s disappearance<\/a>, a city detective wrote in an affidavit this week that one of Scott\u2019s co-workers reported seeing her upset outside their workplace at about 10 p.m. on Oct. 4, the night she disappeared. The coworker reportedly heard Scott say \u201cI can\u2019t believe you\u2019re calling me\u201d before she walked toward a parked SUV.<\/p>\n

Video footage from the area where Scott\u2019s body was found showed two people get out of a vehicle around 11:30 p.m. the night after Scott disappeared. Around 4 a.m., they are shown removing \u201ca heavy object, consistent with a human body\u201d out of the passenger\u2019s side of a car and then carrying it \u201cin the general direction\u201d of where Scott\u2019s body was recovered from a shallow grave nearly two weeks later, according to the police affidavit.<\/p>\n

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When an anonymous tip led police to again search that area, which is near an abandoned school, they found a spot with freshly disturbed earth. Scott\u2019s remains were recovered<\/a> and DNA was tested to confirm her identity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Police also obtained texts between Scott and a person they believe was King over the week before Scott disappeared, saying King identified himself as Kel. At about 10 a.m. the morning Scott disappeared, she texted that number to say \u201ckidnap me again,\u201d the detective wrote. \u201cKel\u201d responded \u201cbetter be up too.\u201d<\/p>\n

King, of Dover, Delaware, was arrested earlier this year in another case<\/a>, but posted $200,000 bail and was released. In that case King was accused of kidnapping a woman from in front of her house and forcing her into a car where she was assaulted and eventually let go. Charges were dropped after the victim and a witness did not appear for court proceedings.<\/p>\n

Scott\u2019s parents have described their daughter as exhibiting \u201clight, kindness and beautiful spirit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia authorities filed murder charges Thursday against a suspect for the death of 23-year-old Kada Scott, and investigators…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31,916,38,457,91,2655,3626,1856,40,28,69,71,70,6803,44],"class_list":{"0":"post-13457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-delaware","10":"tag-general-news","11":"tag-homicide","12":"tag-kada-scott","13":"tag-keon-king","14":"tag-kidnapping","15":"tag-law-enforcement","16":"tag-pa-state-wire","17":"tag-pennsylvania","18":"tag-philadelphia","19":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","20":"tag-philadelphia-news","21":"tag-shootings","22":"tag-u-s-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13457","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=13457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}