(File Photo: Source for Headline Photo and First Photo Below: This undated photo released by the Philadelphia Police Department shows kidnapping suspect Keon King, who is charged in the disappearance of Kada Scott. King is also charged in the kidnapping of another woman earlier this year. (Philadelphia Police Department via AP)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Philadelphia, PA) According to an announcement yesterday from the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office, the suspect who was previously charged with kidnapping in connection with the disappearance of 23-year-old nursing student Kada Scott has now been charged with her murder. In addition to that charge, twenty-one-year-old Keon King also has charges including abuse of a corpse, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, possession of an instrument of crime, robbery, tampering with evidence, theft and related offenses. The Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office also identified remains belonging to Scott in a shallow grave on Monday and a spokesperson from that same office confirmed today that Scott was killed by a gunshot wound to her head. Scott died on Saturday and the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office ruled that homicide was her cause of death. The grave where the human remains were found was located at Ada H.H. Lewis Middle School in East Germantown. A judge ruled today that King will be held in jail without bail.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(File Photo: Source for Second Photo Below: This undated photo provided by the Philadelphia Police Department shows Kada Scott, 23, who has been missing since she stepped outside during her night shift at a nursing home on Oct. 4. (Philadelphia Police Department via AP)