Overview
- Authorities confirmed through DNA testing that the body recovered behind the vacant Ada H. H. Lewis Middle School is 23-year-old Kada Scott.
- Keon King, 21, is jailed on kidnapping and related counts as prosecutors prepare homicide charges once probable cause is established.
- Prosecutors say cellphone location data and extensive surveillance video place King at key sites and show he was the last person to contact Scott.
- Investigators received a 911 tip that led to early evidence near the school, then an email directing a return search that uncovered the shallow grave; the tipster’s identity remains under investigation.
- Officials are examining whether others assisted after the fact, and the district attorney’s office has refilled earlier withdrawn cases and is pursuing additional counts tied to a burned vehicle and evidence tampering.