A 22-year-old college student who was pulled out of class in New York two weeks ago and arrested in the fatal shooting of a Woodlawn teenager nearly six years ago has been brought back to Baltimore County by authorities, police said yesterday.
Nicholas Dudley Pinderhughes Weaver of Baltimore has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of David L. Baskin Jr., an aspiring rap musician who was shot in July 2002 near his Woodlawn home, a day after his 18th birthday.
Baskin's mother has said that police told her he was the unintended victim of a group of West Baltimore youths who were feuding with a group from Woodlawn over a girl.
Weaver had been held without bail at Nassau County Jail in New York. He was one of two young men arrested in the killing. The other, Charles Howard Davis, 21, was arrested Feb. 14 at his apartment in Baltimore.
Weaver, who is suspected of being the shooter, and Davis were 16 at the time of the killing, police said.
Davis and Weaver have been charged with first-degree murder and were being held without bail at the Baltimore County Detention Center, police said.
Weaver - a grandson of the late Alice G. Pinderhughes, who was the first female superintendent of schools in Baltimore - is a senior history major at Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y.
He graduated in 2004 from Mount St. Joseph High School, recently took a law school admission test and had been applying to law schools.