Delco Girl Accused Of Killing Ex-Boyfriend To Stand Trial: Report

EDDYSTONE, PA — A Delaware County teenager will stand trial on charges of murder and more after authorities said she fatally shot her ex-boyfriend in Montgomery County on Oct. 6.

Precious Hamilton, 15, of Eddystone, was ordered to stand trial at a preliminary hearing in Montgomery County, according to the Delaware County Daily Times.

Authorities said she shot and killed her ex-boyfriend, 17-year-old Baseem “Seyven” Baker, in an apartment in the 100 block of Old York Road in the Jenkintown section of Abington Township the evening of Oct. 6.

Hamilton had been in a romantic relationship with Baker, and they had known each other for several months, according to family members. Despite the romantic relationship ending, the two remained friends, Hamilton said in a criminal complaint.

Hamilton had come over to the apartment in the 100 block of Old York Road on Oct. 3, according to a probable cause affidavit. Authorities said she was there with Baker, who had another girl staying over, before she left the following day.

In reviewing surveillance footage from Baker's iPad, authorities said that Hamilton brought a "cowboy-style," small-caliber black revolver handgun with her that she demonstrated by pointing it out of the 11th-floor apartment window and squeezing the trigger, the complaint said.

Authorities called this "dry firing" the handgun, which means firing the gun without ammunition.

On the morning of Oct. 6, Baker's mother told him that Hamilton should leave, that she was going to run errands, and that he should lock the apartment door, the criminal complaint said.

Hours later, the mother returned to find the apartment unlocked and her son lifeless on the bedroom floor, bleeding from a gunshot wound to the back of the head, authorities said. She called 911 and began performing CPR on her son.

Hamilton was seen on video footage leaving the apartment alone at 3:22 p.m. on Oct. 6 for her home, authorities said.

Hamilton told Abington Township Police and Montgomery County Detectives that she accidentally shot Baker with the handgun, which Hamilton told authorities she stole two months ago, and was loaded with three rounds of ammunition, according to the affidavit.

Hamilton told authorities she was lying on the bed with Baker, and the two began to "play around."

She said she did not want to do so any longer and grabbed the cocked handgun that was underneath the bed.

Hamilton said she displayed the handgun "in a rapid fashion and was surprised when the revolver discharged, instantly striking the victim," the complaint states.

Hamilton said that she did not call 911 because she had panicked. Instead, she called her mother to take her home to Delaware County with the handgun inside her bag, authorities said.