This is
really outrageous! Now babies are
routinely being shot in this country
A pair of teenagers was arrested
Friday and accused of fatally shooting a 13-month-old baby in the face and
wounding his mother during their morning stroll through a leafy, historic
neighborhood.
Sherry 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.
West said a tall, skinny teenager,
accompanied by a smaller boy, asked her for money.
"He asked me for money and I
said I didn't have it," she told The Associated Press Friday from her
apartment, which was scattered with her son's toys and movies.
"When you have a baby, you
spend all your money on babies. They're expensive. And he kept asking and I
just said 'I don't have it.' And he said, 'Do you want me to kill your baby?'
And I said, 'No, don't kill my baby!'"
One of the teens fired four shots,
grazing West's ear and striking her in the leg, before he walked around to the
stroller and shot the baby in the face.
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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