Daily News | Three years later, authorities say they have solved the mystery of the body in the Philly arboretum
Rashid Young, 22, was stabbed to death and buried inside a makeshift grave at the Awbury Arboretum in Germantown, prosecutors in Montgomery County said.Three years ago, a landscaper at Awbury Arboretum in Philadelphia’s Germantown section noticed something strange. A hole he had spotted dug on a trail had been filled. He summoned police. They dug and found the body of a murder victim, stabbed to death.
Prosecutors in Montgomery County charged Keshaun Sheffield, 20, with Young’s murder, accusing him of killing Young in August 2019 in Young’s apartment on High Street in Pottstown and then burying his body in the arboretum, not far from Sheffield’s home in East Mount Airy. Sheffield remained in custody, denied bail. His attorney, Marni Jo Snyder, declined to comment Wednesday.
“That wasn’t like him, because he would’ve come here first thing to check on his brother,” Cyrus said. “Just getting these messages didn’t sit right with any of us, because we knew wouldn’t send anything like that.” All the time, Sheffield was withdrawing money from Young’s bank account, pocketing payments Young was receiving out of a civil settlement that was paying out in modest installments. They ended when Young’s family froze the account five months after his disappearance.
Then progress on the case seemed to come to halt. In December 2019, Sheffield even contacted Pottstown police to report Young missing. Still, it appears police made no further headway in a case that stretched between Philadelphia and Pottstown..
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