Police arrest 2 teens in Georgia baby killing

BRUNSWICK, Ga. — In five years, Sherry West has lost two sons to unspeakable violence.

The Georgia mother was grieving from Thursday’s shooting death of her 13-month-old son in his stroller during an attempted robbery while they took a morning stroll. In 2008, her 18-year-old son was stabbed in an altercation in New Jersey.

A pair of teenagers was arrested Friday in the most recent shooting. West had just been to the post office a few blocks from her apartment Thursday morning and was pushing her son, Antonio, in his stroller while they walked past gnarled oak trees and blooming azaleas in the coastal city of Brunswick.

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Seventeen-year-old De’Marquis 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. It wasn’t immediately clear whether the boys had attorneys.

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Published March 22, 2013

Associated Press

BRUNSWICK, Ga. –  Police with automatic weapons went door-to-door in a coastal Georgia town searching for suspects after a gunman opened fire on an infant as his mother pushed him in his stroller.

The suspects in the Thursday killing of the 13-month-old boy and wounding of his mother are thought to be from 10 to 15 years old, Brunswick Police Chief Tobe Green said.

“He said ‘I’m going to kill you if you don’t give me money,’ and I said, `I swear I don’t have any,”‘ the mother, Sherry West, said in a tearful interview with WAWS-TV of Jacksonville.

She said she tried to protect her baby, Antonio, but shots rang out.

“I put my arms over my baby and he shoves me and then he shot my baby right in the head,” West said.
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Parents of slain baby speak out

BRUNSWICK, GA — When she got back from the hospital with a bullet wound to her leg, Sherry West invited Action News into her living room still littered with items belonging to her baby boy, Antonio. The 13 month old was killed just a few hours earlier. She says it was during a robbery attempt by a couple of kids.

She says she was walking her child in his stroller just yards from their Brunswick, Georgia home at about 9 a.m.

“Two boys approached me. Two African American boys. One of them was about 15,” said West. “He said, ‘I’m going to kill you if you don’t give me money,’ and I said, ‘I swear I don’t have any.'”

She says the other boy appeared younger than 10 years old. The older one pointed a handgun.

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