Remains found in search for missing Philadelphia woman Kada Scott

Police discovered human remains at an abandoned school while searching for Kada Scott, the 23-year-old Philadelphia woman who has been missing since she failed to come home from an overnight shift two weeks ago

Police discovered human remains at an abandoned school while searching for Kada Scott, the 23-year-old Philadelphia woman who has been missing since she failed to come home from an overnight shift two weeks ago.

Investigators found the remains in a shallow grave on Saturday in the same area where Scott’s personal belongings were found days earlier, according to John Stanford, deputy commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department. Police said a tip came in to investigators directing them to search the wooded area around Ada H. Lewis Middle School.

That’s where the woman’s remains were found, Stanford said. The remains have been sent to the medical examiner’s office to determine the identity, Stanford said.

“We are not going to confirm at this point that it is Ms. Kada Scott, because that has to be done by the medical examiner’s office,” Stanford said Saturday. “But we have been in communication with her family as to this process and the fact that we have recovered a human being. And so at this point, it’s still a lot of work to be done.”

Scott was reported missing by her mother on Oct. 5 after the 23-year-old failed to return home from an overnight shift at an assisted living facility where she worked. She was scheduled from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., her father, Kevin, told NBC’s “Dateline.”