23-year-old vanishes after telling family she was being harassed, PA cops say

A 23-year-old woman “completely disappeared” after leaving her job in the middle of her shift, Pennsylvania authorities say.

Kada Scott was last seen by her family at 9:45 p.m. Oct. 4 when she left for her overnight shift at a nursing home on the northwest side of Philadelphia, according to the Philadelphia Police Department.

Philadelphia Police Capt. John Craig said in an Oct. 8 news briefing that Scott left “pretty soon” after she arrived to work, but her vehicle remained in the parking lot.

Since then, she has been unaccounted for, with her phone having been turned off, investigators said. Officers are analyzing her phone data to figure out her movements after leaving her job.

“We do have some concern, more so than usual,” Craig said.

Before Scott’s disappearance, she had told family members she was being harassed over the phone by an unknown person. according to police.

Investigators said they are are interviewing Scott’s friends and family and working to determine who had been messaging her.

“Something is out of place,” Scott’s mother, Kim Matthews, told WCAU. “She would never do something like this so I don’t know what’s going on.”

Scott is described as 5 feet, 6 inches /tall, weighs 120 pounds, and has a thin build with brown eyes and black hair, police said.

Craig called her a “very bright, energetic woman” who’s normally in frequent contact with her loved ones.

She recently started working at The Terrace at Chestnut Hill assisted living center following her graduation from Penn State University, loved ones told WPVI.

Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to contact police at 215-686-3353.

“I’m thinking positive. She’s OK, wherever she’s at, and we’re going to find her,” Kevin Scott, the missing woman’s father, told KYW-TV. “That’s what I’m thinking right now.”