Kada Scott was shot in the head, medical examiner says; suspect held without bail

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The Philadelphia medical examiner released Kada Scott’s exact cause of death on Thursday.

The ME says Scott was killed by a gunshot wound to the head.

 

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 vacant Ada Lewis Middle School, near the Awbury Arboretum Recreation Center.

On Wednesday, officials announced her manner of death was ruled a homicide and that the suspect, 21-year-old Keon King, has been charged with murder.

King was arraigned on the murder charge on Thursday and is being held without bail.

Scott’s 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.

Court documents filed Wednesday revealed new details, including text messages between Scott and King on the day she went missing, including Scott texting ‘kidnap me again,’ to which the suspect allegedly replied, ‘better be up too.’

Investigators say the following night, King’s 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.