Christopher B. Weaver, the older brother of Nicholas Weaver, was killed in 2004 when an intruder entered his apartment in Hampton, Va., and opened fire with a handgun. The 22-year-old was a senior and a business major at Hampton University.
Hampton police told The Virginian-Pilot at the time that the motive for the shooting was unknown but that there was no evidence of a robbery. Five men were convicted in the killing, according to The Daily Press of Newport News.
Like his older brother, Nicholas Weaver attended the Gilman School, a spokeswoman for the school said. He transferred to Mount St. Joseph High School in 2002 and graduated in 2004 before enrolling as a history major at Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y., according to a copy of Weaver's resume. He was scheduled to graduate this year.
According to the resume, Weaver worked in the summer of 2003 for a Baltimore law firm, delivering files to court, preparing files for hearings in uncontested divorces and conducting initial client interviews. During the next few summers, he worked with HIV-positive children at a hospital in Uganda, as a jury clerk for the Baltimore City Circuit Court and as an intern with the high-profile Baltimore law firm of Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman, Hoffberger & Hollander.
Baltimore Circuit Court Clerk Frank Conaway described Weaver as polite, intelligent and handsome - and probably the best of the 10 summer clerks he hired in 2006.
"He was a good kid. What else can I say? He really was," he said. "And one of the few that wrote me a thank-you note for employment."
Weaver was charged in Baltimore in 2005 with marijuana possession and received probation before judgment, court records show.
Testaverde said Weaver recently took a law school admissions test and had been applying to law schools.
David Baskin's parents expressed relief yesterday at news of the arrests.
When Brenda Baskin arrived at work yesterday morning at the Baltimore City Department of Social Services, Baltimore County police Sgt. Allen Meyer, the lead detective in her son's murder case, was waiting for her.
"I knew," Baskin said in an interview. "I grabbed him and hugged him. I said, `It's happened, hasn't it?'"
David Baskin Jr. and a group of friends from his neighborhood formed a rap group that they called Furilla. While David wrote the music for the group's songs, his friends served as lyricists, the Baskins said.
After David's death, his parents collected enough money to send their son's friends - along with tapes of David Baskin's music - into a recording studio. The resulting CD, titled Hard Times, features David's artwork and a photo of the spot where he was killed.
In the photograph, the blue hat he wore rests beside a bouquet of flowers on the blood-stained street.
jennifer.mcmenamin @baltsun.com
Sun reporters Gina Davis, Matthew Dolan, Julie Scharper and Laura Vozzella and reporters for Newsday in New York contributed to this article.
