Georgia mom who watched baby mercilessly shot in the face weeps for son she will neve

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Georgia mom who watched baby mercilessly shot in the face weeps for son she will never see grow

A 13-month-old Brunswick, Ga. boy was murdered in a stroller Thursday after a botched robbery attempt on his mother, Sherry West. Two teenage boys have been charged for first-degree murder in the case.

Luis Santiago tries to comfort Sherry West at her apartment Friday in Brunswick, Ga., the day after their 13-month-old son, Antonio Santiago, was shot and killed. West says she was walking her baby in his stroller when a teenage gunman demanding money shot the baby in the face and shot her in the leg.



The Georgia mother whose baby was shot and killed execution-style in his stroller said she will forever mourn the milestones she’ll never see.

“I’m always going to wonder what his first word would be,” said heartbroken mom Sherry West a day after the senseless shooting in Brunswick, Ga.
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Sherry West says two teen robbers demanded money but then shot her and killed her baby when she told them she didn't have any.

Her 13-month-old boy, Antonio Santiago, was murdered Thursday seconds after two teenage killers shot and wounded the terrified mom during a botched robbery.

When West saw the jail mug shot of 17-year-old De’Marquis Elkins, she identified him as the gunman.
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Antonio Santiago celebrates his first Christmas in December of 2012. This was one of the last of Antonio's milestones ever shared with mother Sherry West.

“That’s definitely him,” she told law enforcement. “He killed my baby, and he shot me too.”

Police nabbed Elkins in Brunswick and charged him as an adult with first-degree murder. His alleged accomplice, 14, who has not been identified because he is a minor, was also arrested.
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This Friday, March 22, 2013 photo provided by the Glynn County Detention Center shows De'Marquise Elkins, 17, one of two teenagers arrested Friday and accused of fatally shooting a 13-month-old baby in the face and wounding his mother during their morning stroll in Brunswick, Ga. Elkins is charged as an adult with first-degree murder, along with a 14-year-old who was not identified because he is a juvenile, Police Chief Tobe Green said.

“We’re trying to determine which one actually was the shooter,” police spokesman Todd Rhodes said Saturday.

RELATED: GEORGIA BOYS FACE MURDER CHARGES IN COLD KILLING OF BABY IN STROLLER
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Sherry West breaks down in tears as she describes the incident the day before where her 13-month-old son was fatally shot and she was wounded Friday, March 22, 2013 in Brunswick, Ga. West said Friday a teenager trying to rob her at gunpoint asked "Do you want me to kill your baby?" before he fatally shot her 13-month-old son in the head.

The motive of the “horrendous act” was still under investigation, police said, and the weapon had not been found.

Elkins’ older sister insisted her family knows that her brother was not involved in the shooting.
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Police responding to a 911 call in southeastern Georgia found a baby boy shot dead and a mother with a leg wound Thursday morning. The incident in Brunswick prompted a search for two young male suspects, one between 13 and 15 years old, and the other possibly as young as 10. While the mother said she was the victim of an attempted robbery, police said they had not identified a motive so far. They did not provide any other details of the alleged crime, other than to say that after the senseless act, both suspects fled on foot.

“My brother wasn’t anywhere near that area as far as we know — not the scene or the shooting,” she said Saturday. “He couldn’t do that to a little baby.”

When police found Elkins, they pointed a Taser at him and told him to get on the ground.

“He said, ‘What are you getting me for? Can you tell me what I did?’ ” his sister recalled.

West was shot in the left leg above her knee, and another bullet grazed her left ear. She said the gunman shot her son in the face.

“My baby will never be back again,” West sobbed as she packed bags with baby clothing and diapers to donate to charity. “He took an innocent life. I want his life, too.”

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Last Days People5 minutes ago
This story is still suspect so I'm not 100% into giving opinions about it yet. First clue, ever since this happen the mother has been mighty talkative, giving interviews, talking on TV, newspapers. If someone killed my child right in front of my eyes I would be in my house, lock up and not around other people. This world is everywhere TALKING like she wants some kind of attention from this. This doesn't show love, it shows attention. Also, where are the tears. Notice in every interview she is trying to cry, as they say "you sound like you want to cry, but no tears are coming out". Someone shoot your baby in the face and you are talking about it like it didn't traumatize you. This story is still suspect. Again, this only happened THURSDAY and she talking like it's easy to talk about. I wouldn't want to have a camera in my face talking about how my child was shoot in the face only a few days afterwards. Fishy story, many white women in this country use black men as their scapegoat, I'm not saying this story isn't true, BUT more details is needed, GA isn't Chicago or Detroit, because blacks are less likely to commit a crime especially like this one on whites.
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chinaskee21 minutes ago
Something doesn't feel right here.I don't think this is the real story we're getting from this lady.
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Li Wright15 minutes ago
Exactly. She's the witness to the killers and they leave her to live and tell the story? She didn't throw her body in front of the baby? * suspicious *
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mightyant23 minutes ago
surprise, surprise, even though idiot journalist won't say the race, one can guess, and when they don't say it means a black. if white they crow about it. the piece of human garbage better fry till he sizzles like hot tar.
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Natasha Fabiene23 minutes ago
I don't think these kids did this. Keep watching. The story sounds fishy to me.
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Richard Jorgensen24 minutes ago
What are we waiting for, take these to miscreants out to the nearest tree, hang them and be done with it.
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yanquista13 minutes ago
I guess some of us are waiting for a trial and verdict! Lynch mobs need not apply.
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gajlbj37 minutes ago
Original story said when asked to give up her money she stated she didnt have IT.I would think Idont have any ,I will go get some ,but not it.Does this sound more like some kind of debt that was not paid to the wrong people,just wondering.
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Khahn41 minutes ago
What is all this blather about? A baby was shot through head and people here are trying to mitigate and makes excuses for whoever the killers are! They are social deviants whoever did it!
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NotAPlasticFace52 minutes ago
Sorry for those who don't understand this but something isn't sitting right with this article. This crime is so heinous and unspeakable. How was this mother witness to her tiny boy's disgusting slaughter but able to give statements and interviews?

Maybe it's just me, but I certainly would not be functioning. Very strange IMO
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good4thesoul45 minutes ago
I know what you mean. Most of the prior comments and myself are in agreement with you. There's no way on God's green earth, that I would be able to give a interview after witnessing my beloved baby being murdered, right in front of my face. "NO FREAKIN WAY!!!" a few folks are saying something smells terribly fishy with this whole story. And the motive is probably drug related. Nonethless, the low life maggots should have left the precious angel alone. If the mom owed $$$ to whom ever, then she should feel guilty because her child paid her debt with his life. Terribly sad on many, MANY!!! levels.
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RHodgeLaw3 hours ago
It all started when someone had the bright idea to name the boy "De'Marquise".
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Andreas g2 hours ago
2013, and they still do not know how to use an apostrophe.
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Gruguy1 hour ago
Yeah, and you shouldn't start a sentence with a written number, English teacher.
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Gruguy1 hour ago
You are an idiot and so are all the people who gave you a thumbs up.
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Gruguy1 hour ago
One more thing: STFU to both of you.
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Carl Clark3 hours ago
How many here who are looking to make excuses for this crime, or blame the mother, are the very same people who are 'certain' that Zimmerman hunted down Trayvon 'like a dog'? If we reversed the demographics on this matter the public convictions would already be in. There was ONE susan smith, but there have been thousands and thousands of situations in which the testimony of the victims was accurate. Those of you who are wishing and hoping that this was not a black on white crime are blind to the overwhelming numbers, at the very least. There is no reason to assume that this woman shot her baby in the face, but it is very clearly a race thing that the posters are dancing around.

 

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Re: Georgia mom who watched baby mercilessly shot in the face weeps for son she will

That bitch is lying and mofokrs are reasy to ruin those two kids.

Even if they are later released this will have an impact on the rest of their lives.

See what happened to 7 year old Chicago boy wrongfully accused..

Falsely Accused of Murder at Age 7, a 15-Year-Old Is Back in Court on New Charges

MARKHAM, Ill., June 18 — He was no longer a child of 7, but in a baggy shirt with sleeves that fell past his fingers and a blank gaze, Romarr Gipson still looked young and small as he stood once again before a judge on Sunday.

In 1998, the 7-year-old Romarr and an 8-year-old friend were charged with killing a little girl as she rode her bicycle in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, making them the youngest children anyone could remember being prosecuted for murder in the United States. But after a month, the charges were dropped, and the authorities later said an adult was the real killer.

The city went on to pay Romarr and his family a $2 million settlement in a lawsuit that asserted that the boy had been framed and irreparably damaged by his false arrest.

This weekend, Mr. Gipson — now 15 — was charged once more, this time in adult court, accused of aggravated battery with a firearm in a gas-station shooting that left two men wounded, one of them on life support. Mr. Gipson said only four words during a hearing on Sunday in this suburb south of Chicago, stating his name so quietly and quickly that the judge asked him to say it again.

Michael O'Brien, an assistant Cook County state's attorney, described the accusations to the judge in less than five minutes: Mr. Gipson and his stepbrother, Roman Foreman, 18, walked up to a car at a gas station in Calumet Park, a suburb, last Wednesday, stood on opposite sides of the car, and fired guns at the men inside.

A video camera at the Citgo station captured it on tape, Mr. O'Brien said. A witness, an acquaintance of Mr. Gipson and Mr. Foreman, also confirmed the story, Mr. O'Brien said.

A lawyer who represented Mr. Gipson years ago and community leaders in Englewood pointed back to his arrest at age 7 as they pondered his recent arrest. He never seemed to get away from what happened back then, they said. He has struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder, with learning disabilities, the breakup of his family and a constant wish to somehow escape from being the child who had been accused of a brutal murder.

"In a way, you could almost call it a Pygmalion effect," said Jan Susler, a co-counsel on Mr. Gipson's civil lawsuit against the City of Chicago. "You accused the kid falsely. You treated him like he's capable of a rape and a murder. So, you give him a sense of — why should I bother being good?"

But the authorities said that what happened in 1998 had nothing to do with the current troubles Mr. Gipson faced. The police in Calumet Park said they were simply following the leads in a violent shooting.

"We handle this case just as we handled other cases," said John Gorman, a spokesman for the Cook County state's attorney's office.

In August 1998, the Chicago police announced that the two young boys had admitted to killing Ryan Harris, an 11-year-old honor roll student whose death by asphyxiation several days earlier had chilled the city. The police said that Mr. Gipson, then 7, had admitted that the boys had struck Ryan with a rock as she rode her bicycle, and that they had sexually molested her and then stuck her underwear in her mouth and stuffed leaves in her nose.

Around the country, the accusations set off a firestorm of debate over juvenile confessions and whether parents should be allowed to attend the police interrogations of the youngest suspects.

Representatives for the boys said they had never confessed. R. Eugene Pincham, a lawyer who represented them on the criminal charges, said Romarr was not even capable of issuing the many-word confession that the police attributed to him; a cognitive disability that affects his speech pattern to this day would not have allowed it, Mr. Pincham said.

About a month later, the authorities found a semen stain in Ryan's underwear, a stain that experts said boys as young as 7 and 8 could not have produced. Ultimately, the stain was linked by DNA tests to Floyd Durr, a convicted sex offender who pleaded guilty to the murder and sexual assault.

Romarr and his family soon moved away from their old neighborhood to get away from the memory, Ms. Susler said. At the time, the swirl of news media reports had never publicly named Romarr or his 8-year-old friend, but their names and what they had been accused of were well known in Romarr's school and in the neighborhood.

In the years that followed, Ms. Susler said, Romarr was sent to a private therapeutic day school, where he could receive counseling.

Even before this weekend, the teenage Mr. Gipson has run into trouble with the law. In open court on Sunday, Mr. O'Brien told the judge that Mr. Gipson was facing separate charges in juvenile court of aggravated cruelty to animals and possession of a stolen motor vehicle. After court, Mr. O'Brien declined to elaborate on the charges, and Ms. Susler declined to comment on them, stating that juvenile charges should not be made public.

The 8-year-old who was also arrested in the 1998 case has not faced new run-ins with the law, said Mr. Pincham, who also represented him in a civil suit that resulted in a $6.2 million settlement. Still, Mr. Pincham said, he is withdrawn, fearful and rarely leaves his house. "He's still having repercussions," he said. "He's a recluse."

On Wednesday, Mr. Gipson and his stepbrother, the prosecutors said, waited as the occupants of a car pumped gas and climbed back into their car before approaching with weapons they had found at an abandoned house.

The police in Calumet Park told The Chicago Tribune that Mr. Gipson and his stepbrother were acquainted with the men who were shot, and that the motive seemed to "revolve around something that happened several years ago in Chicago with a female."

One victim, shot in the leg, was released from a hospital by Sunday. The other victim, Clifton Smith, who hospital officials said was in his 20's, was in critical condition on Sunday night with a lacerated kidney.

When Mr. Gipson appeared in court eight years ago, he spent much of the hearing drawing hearts and a rainbow with colored pens on a legal pad. On Sunday, as his bond was set at $500,000, he stood near a public defender, but appeared to have no family in the courtroom.

His mother, Ms. Susler said, had not been informed that the hearing would take place. Instead, Ms. Susler said, she had spent most of the weekend waiting at the police station where her son was being questioned, even sleeping on a bench there.

Once you are in the system is is very very hard to get out of it and stay out

 

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Re: Georgia mom who watched baby mercilessly shot in the face weeps for son she will

The fact that she is doing all these interviews makes me suspicious...