De’Marquise Elkins, 18, faces life in prison for killing baby in a stroller after sho

Goober

Hall of Fame Member
Jan 23, 2009
24,691
116
63
Moving
This is one useless Prick that should rot in a cell till he dies.

De’Marquise Elkins, 18, faces life in prison for killing baby in a stroller after shooting mother | National Post

An 18-year-old man was convicted of murder in the shooting of a baby who was riding in a stroller alongside his mom in a town in coastal Georgia.

Jurors deliberated about two hours before finding De’Marquise Elkins guilty of 11 counts, including two counts of felony murder and one count of malice murder in the March 21 killing of 13-month-old Antonio Santiago in Brunswick. The man’s mother, Karimah Elkins, was on trial alongside him and was found guilty of tampering with evidence but acquitted of lying to police.

De’Marquise Elkins faces life in prison. At the time of the shooting he was 17, too young to face the death penalty under Georgia law.

Sherry West testified that she was walking home from the post office with her son the morning of the killing. A gunman demanding her purse, shot her in the leg and shot her baby in the face after she told him she had no money, she said.

Prosecutors, who declined comment after the verdict, said during trial that De’Marquise Elkins and an accomplice, 15-year-old Dominique Lang, are the ones who stopped West. Prosecutors say the older teen pointed a small .22-caliber revolver at West and demanded money. When West refused several times to turn over the money, Elkins fired a warning shot, shot the woman in the leg and the baby between the eyes, prosecutors said.

The killing in the port city of Brunswick drew national attention, and the trial was moved to the Atlanta suburb of Marietta owing to extensive publicity locally.

Prosecutors have said information from Elkins’ mother and sister led investigators to a pond where they found the revolver. Elkins’ sister also was charged with evidence tampering.

Lang, who was a key prosecution witness in Elkins’ trial, is set to go to trial at a later date. De’Marquise Elkins’ attorney asked for bond for his client while they appealed, which the judge denied. Sentencing will be at a later date.