Baseem Seyven Baker, 17, was found unresponsive on the bedroom floor of his family’s apartment on the 100 block of Old York Road in Jenkintown around 5 p.m. on Monday, October 6, 2025. An autopsy the next day determined he died of a gunshot wound to the head and ruled the manner of death a homicide. He had been at home over the weekend with 15-year-old Precious Hamilton, who had been staying with the family since Friday night.

Detectives learned Hamilton produced a small handgun over the weekend; a cousin recalled seeing it, and images and video recovered from Baker’s iPad show Hamilton holding the weapon and dry firing it out of the 11th-floor bedroom window. Surveillance footage shows Hamilton leaving the building alone just before 3:30 p.m. on Monday. Baker’s mother left the teens at about 2:40 p.m. and returned around 4:30 p.m. to find her son on the bedroom floor.

In interviews Hamilton said the shooting was an accident that occurred as she produced the firearm rapidly while gathering belongings and that she had taken the revolver about two months earlier. Authorities say the weapon had not been recovered at the time of the report.

Did anyone in Jenkintown or the apartment building see Hamilton or Baker that afternoon or have information about the handgun’s whereabouts?