HARRISBURG – The man suspected of kidnapping a missing 7-month-old boy may have injured the child a few days before he disappeared, police said Wednesday.
Upper Darby Police Chief Michael Chitwood said investigators also think Ummad Rushdi, 30, had second thoughts about how he first disposed of the child’s body near Columbia, leading him to retrieve his remains.
Chitwood said the mother of Hamza Ali said that Rushdi, who was her boyfriend, locked Hamza in a closet and put him alone in a wooded area behind their home in the York suburbs because the child was crying.
“She said that three or four days before the baby disappeared, she feels that he may have caused damage to the baby’s shoulder or arm from handling him the way he handled him,” Chitwood said.
Hamza has been missing since Aug. 4, when police say Rushdi took him from a home in Upper Darby. Police said Rushdi’s brother Jawwad Rushdi said Rushdi told him he shook Hamza to death, then buried him in an undisclosed location.
Jawwad Rushdi is “still being cooperative,” Chitwood said. “He claims he doesn’t know where the body is (and) if he did know where the body is, he’d tell us.”
Chitwood disclosed new details about the second burial.
“The information we have is that he buried the baby, he clothed the baby in some type of white garment,” then performed a Muslim rite, Chitwood said. “He will not tell anyone where that baby is currently buried.”
Investigators were searching Wednesday at a landfill near York and planned also to look for the child at Hain Park, south of York.
“Everywhere we’ve been, we’ve had reasonable suspicion to be there,” Chitwood said.
THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING VERY WRONG WITH THE MOTHER WHO ALLOWS ANYBODY TO TREAT HER BABY IN SUCH BARBARIC MANNER. READ MORE
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