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| De'Marquise Elkins |
A teen was arrested, charged and convicted of murder related charges after shooting a baby dead while his mother was pushing him in his stroller, according to court proceedings in Georgia.
Now, the teenager was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
De'Marquise Elkins, 18, was sentenced in Superior Court of Glynn County less than two weeks after a jury found him guilty of murder in the death of 13-month-old Antonio Santiago.
As we reported earlier, 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.