The York County man already charged with kidnapping a baby from an Upper Darby home has been charged with the infant's murder.
The additional counts against Ummad Rushdi, 30, include criminal homicide, first-degree degree murder, and tampering with evidence, according to public records.
Seven-month-old Hamza Ali was last seen alive on Aug. 4 while visiting Rushdi's parents, along with his mother.
Rushdi later allegedly told his brother he accidentally killed the baby and buried him in the York area. Several days of intensive searching in both the York and Upper Darby areas failed to locate the body.
Rushdi told police, "'The baby can't be retrieved,'" said Michael Chitwood, the Upper Darby Township police superintendent.
"He killed the baby, we don't know what was left of the baby," said Chitwood .
"This is a barbaric act committed by a barbarian," said Chitwood. "Rushdi is a barbarian."
Ummad Rushdi, 30, already had been charged with kidnapping the infant son of his girlfriend, Zainab Gaal, also 30.
The couple and child lived together in a large country-style home with a stone facade in Windsor Township, southeast of York.
They were visiting Rushdi's parents in Upper Darby the weekend that the child disappeared.
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