by Ellie Rushing Published Oct. 23, 2025, 4:35 p.m. ET

A month after Keon King was charged with breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s home and strangling her, police say, his violence escalated: in January, he returned to her home with a gun, then kidnapped and assaulted her.

A warrant for his arrest was issued days later.

In the weeks that followed, King twice appeared in Philadelphia court and stood before a judge in the initial strangulation case. But no one in the courtroom seemed to know he was wanted for kidnapping.

So both times, King walked out.

In February, despite the warrant for King’s arrest, prosecutors — seemingly unaware that police said he had recently attacked their key witness — withdrew the burglary and strangulation case when the victim failed to appear in cou

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