Pa. man charged with killing missing infant
HARRISBURG (AP) – Police are charging a central Pennsylvania man with killing a 7-month-old boy who’s been missing for more than three weeks.
Upper Darby Police Chief Michael Chitwood said Tuesday that detectives again sought the location of Hamza Ali’s body from the defendant Ummad Rushdi.
Chitwood said Rushdi told a detective Hamza’s body “can’t be retrieved.”
Rushdi had recently become the boyfriend of Hamza’s mother, and they lived in the York suburbs.
Rushdi’s lawyer, Mike Malloy, says he wasn’t aware of the new charges, and is declining comment. Ummad had previously been jailed on kidnapping and other charges.
Along with homicide, police on Tuesday also filed charges of kidnapping to facilitate a felony and inflict injury or terror, concealment of a child’s whereabouts, tampering with evidence and abuse of a corpse.