Tyrone N. Butts
APE Reporter
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Argument leads to city's 13th homicide this year
PHOTOS AT LINK
There are two bullet holes in the bedroom window of David "Baby Dave" Weston's house on Derrick Street in Jackson.
They were put there Thursday morning by someone looking to take him out, said his cousin, DeWitt "Big D" Weston.
Police told 17-year-old David Weston to keep a low profile or he might not live through the weekend, relatives said. But Baby Dave was never one for taking advice, they said.
He was fatally shot around noon Friday
after getting into an argument with three men, police said.
"I had been expecting something like this," said Mary N. Weston, 71, a great-aunt who raised David Weston as her son since he
r
r
was
two. "He was always on the go. Always in the street.
"And the police told
him he was going to wind up with a bullet in him if he didn't stay out of the streets," she said. "I tried so hard, but I'm old and just so tired."
David Weston survived gunfire a year ago when he was shot in the lower leg at the Captain D's Seafood Restaurant on Woodrow Wilson Drive.
Police don't know how, or if, that February 2003 shooting is linked to Friday's shooting, Jackson Police Department spokesman Robert Graham said.
David Weston is Jackson's 13th homicide victim of the year.
On Friday, he stopped his car in the 300 block of Jennings Street and began talking with the men in a light-colored car, police said.
W
hen the driver of the other car tried to get out, David Weston pushed him back in, Graham said.
The driver shot David Weston twice, at least one time in the chest. One of the two passeng
ers
ki
cked him, t
hen got back in the car and took off, Graham said.
In the Captain D's shooting, David Weston, then 16, was shot and wounded al
ong with Lurenza Clincy, then 20, in a car in the drive-through line. Someone fired at them from another vehicle with an assault rifle.
Clincy was struck in the abdomen and later recovered.
Allen Sims and Frederick Hemphill III were charged with aggravated assault and are expected to stand trial in May or June.
Clincy lived in a house on Larkspur Street that was sprayed with bullets last month. A 5-year-old boy, D'Anthony Roby, was hit in the left arm, which doctors had to amputate.
David Weston was given the name "Baby Dave" because there was an older person named Dave in his neighborhood, said Mary N.
Weston. He dropped out of Lanier High School two years ago because of disciplinary problems and didn't work, she said.
David Weston had prior arrests on charges o
f assau
lt, dis
orderly conduct, tr
espassing, auto theft and possession of cocaine. He was driving a stolen 1991 Lexus when shot Friday, Graham said.
He spent most of his time walking the
streets and playing basketball, DeWitt Weston said.
"He was one of the best street basketball players you will ever see. The things he could have done if he would have had his head straight," DeWitt Weston said.
Mary N. Weston took in David Weston and his sister because their mother couldn't take care of them and their father was never around, she said.
"He was a mild child growing up," said Curtis Young, a neighbor. "He loved his great-aunt and was respectful to all the older people around the neighborhood. He would go out and handle business on the street, yelling an
d doing whatever, but he'd stop if he ever saw an older person.
"He wasn't no saint, but at the same time, he wasn't the worst person in the worl
d," Yo
ung said.</
b>
DeWitt Weston, wh
o lived with David Weston, said his cousin was in the living room when shots flew into the house Thursday morning. He knew someone wanted David Weston dead, but it hurt him to know that when his cousin was fatally s
hot near his Derrick Street home he was kicked afterward.
"He was a good-hearted person, but you didn't cross him," Dewitt Weston said. "If you crossed him, you got hell on your hands. I guess whoever did this dished it back out."
*************
Burn in hell, n-gger.
T.N.B.
Argument leads to city's 13th homicide this year
PHOTOS AT LINK
There are two bullet holes in the bedroom window of David "Baby Dave" Weston's house on Derrick Street in Jackson.
They were put there Thursday morning by someone looking to take him out, said his cousin, DeWitt "Big D" Weston.
Police told 17-year-old David Weston to keep a low profile or he might not live through the weekend, relatives said. But Baby Dave was never one for taking advice, they said.
He was fatally shot around noon Friday
after getting into an argument with three men, police said.
"I had been expecting something like this," said Mary N. Weston, 71, a great-aunt who raised David Weston as her son since he
r
r
was
two. "He was always on the go. Always in the street.
"And the police told
him he was going to wind up with a bullet in him if he didn't stay out of the streets," she said. "I tried so hard, but I'm old and just so tired."
David Weston survived gunfire a year ago when he was shot in the lower leg at the Captain D's Seafood Restaurant on Woodrow Wilson Drive.
Police don't know how, or if, that February 2003 shooting is linked to Friday's shooting, Jackson Police Department spokesman Robert Graham said.
David Weston is Jackson's 13th homicide victim of the year.
On Friday, he stopped his car in the 300 block of Jennings Street and began talking with the men in a light-colored car, police said.
W
hen the driver of the other car tried to get out, David Weston pushed him back in, Graham said.
The driver shot David Weston twice, at least one time in the chest. One of the two passeng
ers
ki
cked him, t
hen got back in the car and took off, Graham said.
In the Captain D's shooting, David Weston, then 16, was shot and wounded al
ong with Lurenza Clincy, then 20, in a car in the drive-through line. Someone fired at them from another vehicle with an assault rifle.
Clincy was struck in the abdomen and later recovered.
Allen Sims and Frederick Hemphill III were charged with aggravated assault and are expected to stand trial in May or June.
Clincy lived in a house on Larkspur Street that was sprayed with bullets last month. A 5-year-old boy, D'Anthony Roby, was hit in the left arm, which doctors had to amputate.
David Weston was given the name "Baby Dave" because there was an older person named Dave in his neighborhood, said Mary N.
Weston. He dropped out of Lanier High School two years ago because of disciplinary problems and didn't work, she said.
David Weston had prior arrests on charges o
f assau
lt, dis
orderly conduct, tr
espassing, auto theft and possession of cocaine. He was driving a stolen 1991 Lexus when shot Friday, Graham said.
He spent most of his time walking the
streets and playing basketball, DeWitt Weston said.
"He was one of the best street basketball players you will ever see. The things he could have done if he would have had his head straight," DeWitt Weston said.
Mary N. Weston took in David Weston and his sister because their mother couldn't take care of them and their father was never around, she said.
"He was a mild child growing up," said Curtis Young, a neighbor. "He loved his great-aunt and was respectful to all the older people around the neighborhood. He would go out and handle business on the street, yelling an
d doing whatever, but he'd stop if he ever saw an older person.
"He wasn't no saint, but at the same time, he wasn't the worst person in the worl
d," Yo
ung said.</
b>
DeWitt Weston, wh
o lived with David Weston, said his cousin was in the living room when shots flew into the house Thursday morning. He knew someone wanted David Weston dead, but it hurt him to know that when his cousin was fatally s
hot near his Derrick Street home he was kicked afterward.
"He was a good-hearted person, but you didn't cross him," Dewitt Weston said. "If you crossed him, you got hell on your hands. I guess whoever did this dished it back out."
*************
Burn in hell, n-gger.
T.N.B.
