{"id":311855,"date":"2026-10-22T12:06:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/311855\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T12:06:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:06:24","slug":"pennsylvania-lawmakers-vote-to-establish-kada-scott-day-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/311855\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania lawmakers vote to establish Kada Scott Day \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

A year after Kada Scott was kidnapped and killed in Philadelphia<\/a>, lawmakers have voted to honor her memory by designating her birthday as Kada Scott Day.<\/p>\n

Scott’s family was there in Harrisburg on Wednesday, Oct. 21, to witness the moment as lawmakers overwhelmingly approved the bill in a 202-1 vote. Instead of Nov. 18 being remembered only as the day Scott was born, the proposed annual recognition would also serve as a day to honor her life.<\/p>\n

Scott, a Penn State University graduate, disappeared from her job at an assisted living facility<\/a> in Philadelphia’s Chestnut Hill neighborhood on Oct. 4, 2025.<\/p>\n

According to court documents, shortly after leaving work, Scott had texted the words “kidnap me again” to Keon King, who replied, “better be up too.”<\/p>\n

Scott had last been seen at work around 10 p.m. that night. Her remains were later discovered in a shallow grave in a wooded area<\/a> near Ada H. Lewis Middle School in Philadelphia’s East Germantown neighborhood.<\/p>\n

Police said Scott died from a gunshot wound to the head.<\/p>\n

King, 21, of Dover, Delaware, was later arrested and charged in Scott’s kidnapping and murder. <\/p>\n

During a hearing in Feb. 2026,<\/a> a judge ruled that King would stand trial on charges of kidnapping, arson, murder and other related offenses.<\/p>\n

Scott’s family is also keeping her memory alive through The Kada Scott Foundation, an organization established in her honor to continue celebrating her life and legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A year after Kada Scott was kidnapped and killed in Philadelphia, lawmakers have voted to honor her memory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,69],"class_list":["post-311855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311855","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=311855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}