Keon King Held For Trial In Philly Murder
by Alex Lloyd Gross
Keon King, the defendant charged with the murder of Kada Scott. She went missing from her nursing home job back on October 4, 2025, shortly after getting a phone call from King, police said.. Scott’s remains were found buried in a shallow grave in Germantown soon after, police said. She had been shot in the head.
She had texted the words “Kidnap me again to King, who is alleged to have responded “Better be up too”. Prosecutors said Scott was speaking with King that night and left to meet him before she was murdered. The prosecutors alleged King and an unknown person moved Scott’s body the day after she was murdered and buried her in a shallow grave before burning the vehicle.
The two allegedly exchanged 12 telephone calls . Surveillance video showed a dark-colored vehicle pulling into the parking lot of the Awbury Recreation Center at 10:28 p.m. that night and backing into a parking spot near the playground, across the driveway from the vacant Ada H. Lewis Middle School on the 6100 block of Ardleigh Street. Police believe the vehicle was a stolen Hyundai Accent, according to the criminal complaint. A person was spotted in the surveillance video exiting the vehicle and walking through the playground towards the fence line between the rec center and the school.
King was held for trial on charged that include murder, robbery, abuse of a corpse, and firearms charges. King remains held without bail.