"When the perpetrators came out seeking [the other boy], David fit the description," Brenda Baskin said. "They shot into the crowd a couple times. My son took one of those bullets."
When officers arrived, they found David Baskin suffering from a gunshot wound to his back, according to charging documents. He was pronounced dead on the street - in the 2500 block of Elesmere Court - with his friends and his mother standing nearby.
Cpl. Michael Hill, a Baltimore County Police Department spokesman, said he would not confirm or deny that David Baskin was involved in the feud over the girl.
Police began pursuing a fresh lead in the old case in January when an informant called with some new information, Hill said. That prompted detectives to re-interview Davis as well as others.
"We don't ever close any case, but we didn't have anything new until a few weeks ago," Hill said.
According to charging documents, the shooting occurred amid a simmering dispute between the two groups of boys in West Baltimore and Woodlawn.
In June 2002, a girl who had recently moved to the Heraldry Square neighborhood in Woodlawn was talking on the phone with a West Baltimore boy when she handed the phone to a boy from her new neighborhood.
Threats were exchanged, and the Woodlawn boy invited the West Baltimore boy to his house "to settle the problems between them," a detective wrote in the charging documents.
On June 28, 2002, the West Baltimore boy, Nicholas Weaver and several of their friends went to the Woodlawn boy's house "and beat him after he came to the door," according to charging documents.
Five days later, police say, the West Baltimore group returned with a gun.
One of the young men in the group that night told police last week that Weaver drove some friends to Woodlawn and parked near the girl's house, which is very close to where David Baskin was killed. Weaver and Davis got out of the car and were gone for about 15 minutes, according to charging documents.
When they returned to the vehicle, Weaver said, "It's done," according to the court documents.
The young man who spoke to police last week said that "he later learned that Weaver was the person who actually shot David Baskin" and that the other defendant, Davis, told him that he "disposed of the gun" used in the shooting, according to charging documents.
Weaver is the son of Dr. Jesse R. Weaver, a dentist, and Alice G. Pinderhughes, an attorney. Neither returned phone messages yesterday.
