The man suspected in the disappearance of Philadelphia beauty queen Kada Scott was captured on video stalking outside another woman’s home an hour before he allegedly kidnapped and assaulted her.
Keon King, 21, appeared to hop over a backyard fence of the woman’s North Philadelphia home in January before he crept up to a bedroom window, and stared inside at his target as the unidentified woman yelled at him to leave.
“Go away bitch, don’t come over here,” a woman behind the camera told King, according to the video posted to TikTok on Oct. 15, which officials confirmed with NBC10.
King walked around the house and checked on several more windows as the woman told another person inside the home to call the police.
“It’s all these kids here, call the cops,” she says. “He’s coming around the window, go that way.
“Yeah bitch, go away, bye,” the woman taunted King.
King allegedly returned to the house an hour later and abducted the woman from property, dragging her to his car where she was driven off, assaulted and let out of the car, NBC Philadelphia reported, citing police.
The daylight assault took place in front of King’s 2-year-old child, who was sitting in the backseat of the car.
King was charged with kidnapping and assault, but the case was withdrawn after the woman failed to appear in court multiple times in May.
The charges were refiled on Tuesday after King was arrested in connection with the Oct. 4 disappearance of Scott.
“I’m glad (you’re) in jail now , can’t hurt anybody else,” King’s first alleged victim wrote on TikTok. “This is him one of the many times he tried to break in my house , hope they throw him under for everything he’s ever done.”
King was arraigned Thursday on a list of charges, including kidnapping for ransom, false imprisonment, stalking – repeatedly committing acts to cause fear and tampering with evidence, according to court records viewed by The Post.
He is being held in jail on $2.5 million bail.
Scott, 23, vanished following her night shift at an assisted living facility, as her suspected abductor was held on $2.5 million bail on Thursday.
She was last seen leaving her job at The Terrace in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood just after 9:30 p.m. on Oct. 4 before meeting up with “an individual,” according to Philadelphia police.
“Our evidence is pretty clear that she was in communication with an individual, that individual appears to meet her very shortly after she leaves her place of work, and very shortly after that, she disappears,” Philadelphia Police Deputy Commissioner Frank Vanore said, according to WPVI.
Scott represented Philadelphia Township in this year’s Miss Pennsylvania USA Beauty Pageant, not to be confused with the Miss Philadelphia contest that sends a representative of the commonwealth to the Miss America competition.
Before she went missing, Scott claimed she was being harassed by “individuals” over the phone but didn’t reveal who it was, the outlet reported.
Scott is believed to have met up with King moments before her disappearance.
Police opened a missing persons investigation into Scott’s disappearance and are working to find her.
“We are treating this as if Miss Scott is still alive,” Vanore said.
Despite the positive outlook for the case, the department’s homicide division began assisting in the investigation.
“The case was shifted to homicide because we have the most experienced investigators in our homicide unit. They have the most experience dealing with all types of investigations. They also have the most resources available to them,” Stanford said on Wednesday.
Police were tipped off about a 1999 metallic gold Toyota Camry located in a parking lot near King’s family home that is believed to have played a role in Scott’s disappearance.
“We believe she may have been in that vehicle,” Assistant District Attorney Ashley Toczylowski told the outlet.
The suspicious vehicle was spotted driving around the Philadelphia area the night Scott disappeared and was found parked on private property for several days.
The owner of the property had permitted the car to be parked on the lot, but it was not known who had driven it there.
Near the car, investigators found a phone case and a card believed to be Scott’s. Her phone was not found and believed to be out of battery.
“Shortly after arriving here, we were able to locate some physical evidence, which ties Miss Scott to this scene, and obviously, this is very substantial,” Philadelphia Police Sgt. Eric Gripp said
Scott’s family set up a “verified reward fund” on GoFundMe with the hope of finding her and a warning urging donors that “TIME IS CRITICAL.”
“I just need her to come home and be safe. That’s what I fear – she’s not safe,” her mother Kim Matthews told WPVI.
“Every dollar raised strengthens our ability to bring her home and encourages anyone with information to come forward,” Scott’s father, Kevin, said on the fundraiser.
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