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Baseball Cap Leads to Arrest in 1997 Slaying
"I never thought they'd catch the man who killed my baby," said the victim's mother, Thomasine Brown, 68.
(By Bill O'leary -- The Washington Post)
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"This goes to the dedication of our detectives in our cold case unit," Glover said. "They didn't let their leads dry up."
He said the case should send a message to criminals in the District.
"If you've done something, we're coming after you," Glover said. "We're not going to rest until we close these cases."
Brown said that the past 10 years have been a struggle and that she thinks of her son every day, especially when she turns on the stereo he gave her for her birthday. Mother and son liked the same kind of music and listened to 1950s tunes together.
"He used to come to me every day and say, 'Mama, I love you,' " she said. "He was the apple of my eye. That's what hurts. I don't have him no more."
Staff writer Keith L. Alexander contributed to this report.
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