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(Scroll down for video) Two boys were arrested and charged with murder related charges after they killed a baby boy in his baby stroller while being pushed by his mother, according to police reports in Georgia.
Georgia Police said that two monsters shot and killed a helpless baby in vain as he sat in his stroller.
The meaningless execution came seconds after the murderers, who are teenagers, shot and wounded the baby’s terrified mother in a botched robbery.
"You want me to shoot your baby?" Said one of them, before ending the life of the 13-month-old child, police said.
Sherry West, the mother of little Antonio Santiago, despite the fact that she was wounded, gave police a detailed description of the adolescents, 17, and 14-years-old, who were arrested on Friday.
West also gave a harrowing account of what supposedly happened when the older child pointing a gun at her.
"I said, 'No, do not kill my baby!’" West said.
“They killed him anyway,” she said.
West, who lost her 18-year-old son to senseless violence five years ago, was left to bury another child.
De'Marquis Elkins, 17, and his 14-year-old accomplice were caught after heavily armed police in Brunswick, Georgia, went door to door looking for them.
Elkins was charged as an adult of first-degree murder, Police Chief Tobe Green said.
The younger boy, who was not identified because he is a minor, was also charged with first-degree murder, Green said.
The tragedy in the small southern town began to unfold on Thursday, said West, when she took her son out for a walk in the normally quiet and leafy suburb of Brunswick.
"He asked me for money and I said I do not have," she said.
To show he was serious, West said, Elkins fired a shot at the ground.
Not seeing a cap bullet, West said, she thought the gun was fake.
Then, in quick succession, Elkins fired a shot that grazed her left ear and one in her left leg, just above the knee, West told police.
West said it all happened very fast. "I did not know I was hurt," she said.
Then she said: "the boy proceeded to go around the stroller and shot my baby in the face."
West was treated for a gunshot wound at a local hospital and later released.
She said her broken heart will take much longer to repair.
Antonio was a beautiful baby, the weeping mother said.