A Bowling Green man and his father have been indicted in connection with the suspicious death of a man whose body was found in an abandoned SUV.

Ali Fadil, 30, was formally charged by a grand jury with murder, abuse of a corpse and tampering with physical evidence.

Fadil is accused of intentionally causing the death of Michael Scott Lee, 56, of Bowling Green.

Lee was found dead in a Jeep Cherokee on Morgantown Road in the early morning hours of Dec. 22.

A passing motorist saw the wrecked Cherokee in the 11000 block of Morgantown Road and alerted authorities.

The Warren County Sheriff’s Office responded and determined that Lee’s injuries were not consistent with those received in a vehicle crash.

Further investigation led to Fadil being developed as a suspect, and he was arrested Jan. 2 on a murder charge.

The grand jury, which met Wednesday, added charges of abuse of a corpse and tampering with physical evidence.

Fadil’s father Sabah F. Khadim, 56, of Bowling Green, was also indicted on charges of abuse of a corpse and tampering with physical evidence.

The indictment does not detail how Khadim may have committed those crimes, using language that appears in state statutes to say that Khadim “intentionally treated a corpse in a way that would outrage ordinary family sensibilities.”

Khadim had not been named as a suspect in connection with Lee’s death prior to his indictment.

He was served Friday with an arrest warrant and booked into Warren County Regional Jail under a $100,000 cash bond.

Fadil remains jailed under a $500,000 cash bond and is due to appear before Warren Circuit Court Judge Chris Cohron on March 17 for arraignment.

At a preliminary hearing in January in Warren District Court, WCSO Detective Nick Jewell testified that detectives noted trauma to Lee’s head and recovered a bloody sledgehammer from under one of the seats in the Cherokee, which was found with minor front-end damage.

Law enforcement received a tip linking Fadil to Lee’s death, and further investigation enabled detectives to learn that Lee had planned to meet with someone around 10 p.m. on the night of Dec. 21.

A review of cell tower records from that time frame suggested that phones belonging to both men pinged off towers near the Anna community.

“Cell data shows phones for Mr. Fadil and Mr. Lee hitting the same cell towers within seconds (of one another),” Jewell said at the preliminary hearing.

Through search warrants, police established that phones belonging to Lee and Fadil pinged off the same cell towers within seconds of one another late on the night of Dec. 21 through a short time past midnight, stopping on Morgantown Road north of Bowling Green, Jewell said in court.

Answering questions from Warren County Commonwealth’s Attorney Kori Beck Bumgarner at the preliminary hearing, Jewell said that Lee and Fadil knew one another and had potentially been romantically involved at some point.