Pro-life video of the day: Baby dies from intentional gun shot to face
by LauraLoo
A pair of teenagers was arrested Friday for the fatal shooting death of 13-month-old Antonio Santiago, and for the wounding of his mother, during their morning stroll in Brunswick, Georgia.
From the Associated Press:
[Sherry] West, the baby’s mother, has said she and her son were walking home from the post office, a few blocks from her apartment, when they were approached by two youths asking for money. She said she told them she had none, and an older teenager drew a handgun and asked her: “Do you want me to shoot your baby?”
She said the gunman shot her in the leg, and another bullet grazed her left ear, before he shot her baby in the face. West and the boy’s father had just celebrated Antonio’s first birthday in February.
West identified De’Marquise Elkins [pictured above] as the shooter when police showed her a photo lineup of 24 faces….
Other accounts have stated that the shooter fired four shots before he walked around to the front of the stroller and shot baby Antonio in the face.
According to MSN:
Fifteen-year-old Dominique Lang is also charged…. Both suspects are charged as adults.
And now Elkins’ mother and aunt have both been arrested:
Glynn County jail records show 36-year-old Karimah Elkins and 33-year-old Katrina Elkins were booked Tuesday on charges of making false statements to police.
Karimah Elkins is the mother of 17-year-old De’Marquise Elkins….
Katrina Elkins is the suspect’s aunt. She told The Associated Press and other media on Saturday that her nephew couldn’t have killed the child because he was at her house having breakfast.
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What a senseless tragedy.
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How can men do such things?
This is absolutely horrendous.
Murders and violent crimes have increased since Roe v Wade. Abortion on demand has caused a callousness toward life and played a big part in desensitizing us to the horrors of violence and violent death. While I don’t know offhand of any statistics to this effect, I suspect that both perpetrators and victims of violent crimes have gotten younger. yet another tragic legacy of legalized abortion.
My prayers go out for this mother and father and the family. May God’s justice be done, and hopefully justice will be done in the courts as well.
Despicable.
And only what – one of over 5,000 murders of the very young every day?
Predatory crazed ANIMALS.
Lock them up, throw away the keys and let them rot in hell for eternity.
Praying for this family. How absolutely heartbreaking.
Please pray for these boys. That they be locked up for life and repent.
Murders and violent crimes have increased since Roe v Wade. Abortion on demand has caused a callousness toward life and played a big part in desensitizing us to the horrors of violence and violent death.
Totally agree.
If only murder was illegal.
I have no idea how she kept to together enough to tell her story, they would have had to medicate me I think. I cannot even imagine her pain and trauma. Why in the world didn’t they just take her purse and run, what comes from shooting a sleeping child in front of his mother? How did it even benefit them?!
“If only murder was illegal.”
Maybe if we make it legal it will be safer and we’ll have less of it…
Senseless and tragic, extremely.
“Murders and violent crimes have increased since Roe v Wade” – apparently not.
“The national homicide rate for 2011 was 4.8 per 100,000 citizens — less than half of what it was in the early years of the Great Depression, when it peaked before falling precipitously before World War II. The peak in modern times of 10.2 was in 1980, as recorded by national criminal statistics.”
“Meanwhile, over the decades, the homicide rate goes up and down like the stock market — no one has any simple reason why — but one overall trend is as clear as it is surprising: The idea that we used to be a kinder, gentler bunch is nothing but myth.”
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-12-19/lifestyle/35929227_1_homicide-rate-randolph-roth-gun-control
Hang this scumbag from the nearest tree with piano wire, POS.
Reality has a point. We seem to think history begins and ends in our lifetimes. “Never before has….” uh, well check again.
Also there is just something about this story that doesn’t ring true with me. I’m prepared to eat a pile of crow if I have to. Watching the mother interviewed made me think of Susan Smith, who I never believed from day one. Any “emotion” seemed very forced, at least in that interview. I also remember Charles Stuart and the harassment of innocent black men and the eventual arrest of a black man, who while he had a police record, it didn’t make him a killer. Turns out Charles Stuart killed his pregnant wife for the insurance money.
I also tend to be highly suspicious when witnesses are left alive, sometimes with only minor or non life threatening injuries, who can “identify” the killer while someone else dies. No weapon has been found and this happened in broad daylight with no witnesses at all.
The aunt says he was at her house having breakfast. Maybe she isn’t lying.
If is was my son or nephew, I would hang them myself.
Yeah I know how you feel Mary but the police were led to “a” gun in a swamp by the mom/aunt and then both were arrested recently.
Hi Jamie,
And police were so certain they had Mrs. Stuart’s “killer”. Like I said Jamie I will eat crow if necessary, but something about this doesn’t ring true. Even Ms. West’s daughter is questioning her mother’s story. Lot’s of contradictory information out there on the internet.
However, all parties are innocent until proven guilty. I will reserve judgment until the facts are in.
Awful. Just awful.
Mary,
All these cases are hard to believe. I remember having a semi-psychic episode when Susan Smith was found near a rural lake claiming she’d been carjacked (a decidedly urban crime). And the lake bit made me say, “Uh, oh. Maybe they’d better be looking there”.
The O.J. Simson murders were mind-boggling. The only thing stranger would be a Mission Impossible team from the Starship Enterprise traveling back in time to plant all the evidence to frame him.
And apparently that’s what the jury and a disturbing percentage of a sector of our country told themselves.
The mom just needs to look on the bright side. The killer freed her from a life of oppression and patriarchy.
Mrs Stuart was killed by her police officer husband right? I’m sure he was doing the dirty deeds within to keep the police running. This case has one mom that is an ex-meth user (allegedly and hopefully) with no pull in the Police dept. Something stinks, but ex druggies always look guilty to me honestly, they twitch a lot and their emos are a little “off”. I kept saying to myself that if something does come out it will be that this was a drug deal gone bad or the kids were sent to collect $. Gang bangers are n’t usually up at 9am where I’m from.
Not arguing honest, just reliving my days as an officer in DC :)
This kinda stuff made me quit, I couldn’t stop bringing it home to my own kids, had to get out. It just never ends.
“Murders and violent crimes have increased since Roe v Wade” – apparently not.
“The national homicide rate for 2011 was 4.8 per 100,000 citizens — less than half of what it was in the early years of the Great Depression, when it peaked before falling precipitously before World War II. The peak in modern times of 10.2 was in 1980, as recorded by national criminal statistics.”
Reality, I said murders and violent crimes, not just murders, or just homicides.
The stats I found show 875,910 violent crimes in 1973 and 1,203,564 in 2011. The peak was in 1992, with 1.932,270. While they have declined since 1992, with some ups and downs, this is still way higher than in 1973.
There were 19,640 murders in 1973, a peak of 24,530 in 1993, from which point it has declined, though with ups and downs, to 14,612 in 2011. This of course does not figure in the little detail of over 56 million unborn babies murdered, since that is tragically legal.
Adding violent crimes and murders equals 895,550 in 1973. As you can see just the number of violent crimes in 2011 surpasses that, without adding the murders.
I said violent crimes and murders had increased. They have. And I didn’t say the rate, I said the number. What the rate of the numbers I gave comes out to is something I’ll leave to you if you are interested. I stand by what I said.
For the record rape, certainly a violent crime but listed separately, increased following Roe v Wade, peaked in 1997 as has slightly declined since with ups and downs. Aggravated assaults have actually steadily increased right up to 2011.
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm
Since you appear to be claiming Roe v Wade was a trigger for a rise in murders and violent crimes, perhaps you could explain how Roe v Wade is also responsible for the fall in murders and violent crime since 1992/3 you inform us of. And rapes since 1997.
You don’t think raw numbers are somewhat less meaningful than rates?
What about possible changes in the reporting levels, methodologies and classifications in regard to crimes of violence?
I think that the increases were probably due to drugs. I doubt that there is evidence to suggest that Roe v Wade has been a driver.
Hi Jamie Garcia,
What an interesting background and perspective you bring to this discussion! Thank you for your service as a police officer.
Chuck Stuart was a Boston yuppie, a very successful fur salesman. As far as I know he was never an officer. He and his wife Carol were supposedly living the American dream. I still remember the picture or video of the rescue squad responding to the call. He’d called the Boston police on his cell or car phone and had the EMS and police racing to find him and his wife. Supposedly he and his pregnant wife had been the victims of a black carjacker who shot his wife point blank in the head then shot Chuck, who had a strategically placed bullet wound that miraculously did no damage. Chuck said he and his wife got “lost” in the black neighborhood after attending childbirth classes at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The baby died a few days after his mother.
The police dept. and city went ballistic, with the black community justifiably angry over what they considered storm trooper tactics by Boston police, which included accosting black men on the streets and ransacking homes. The police were determined to nail a black man for this crime, made an arrest, but then things began to unravel. You’d think some serious police work from day one would have been in order instead of a lynch mob.
Turns out Chuck had been inquiring about someone to shoot his wife. You’d think one would be a tad more discreet when inquiring about finding a killer. The account of Chuck getting “lost” became questionable. His brother admitted that he helped Chuck by meeting him at the crime scene and collecting the gun and Carol’s “stolen” items. Hey, nothing like making this a family affair. With the police closing in, Chuck ended up jumping off the bridge, at least he had the decency to do the human race that service.
You can probably youtube or google more info on this case. The movie “Good NIght Sweet Wife” is a dramatization of what happened.
I have the same reaction to Sherry West that I did to Susan Smith, who I never believed. For me it was their “forced emotions”, only way I can describe it. Also, the non life threatening wounds is another. I’m higly suspicious of strategically placed non lethal bullets!
However, all are presumed innocent until proven guilty and nothing makes us look more foolish than shooting off our mouths first and getting our facts later so I will leave it at that :)
Reality I already showed you evidence, and it’s certainly more reliable than the Washington Post. And I never said there weren’t other factors. I grew up in the thick of the hippy drug culture in Tampa, FL. I’m well aware of the impact of drugs. That doesn’t mean abortion didn’t have an impact too.
Likewise, I’m sure Roe v Wade is not the only factor in the decline of some violent crimes, but not violent crimes and murders, which is what I said in the first place, which you ignored.
And no, I don’t necessarily think rate is more important than number. Rate doesn’t matter one lick to victims of violent crimes. The idea that more people must mean more crimes is too fatalistic for me. It may indeed mean that, but it shouldn’t. Besides I haven’t conceded that the rate according to the figures I found is lower than what you came up with out of the Washington Post. I left you to find that out for yourself, since you are the one who challenged me. The burden of proof is on you.
“What about possible changes in the reporting levels, methodologies and classifications in regard to crimes of violence?”
Those might be reasons why the rates show lower, too. There may not be any less crimes even rate wise. There definitely are not fewer numbers wise.
And the 56 million plus unborn children murdered remain unaccounted for in this. They were counted before Roe v Wade.
Also, it’s now up to 659 babies saved and mothers and families helped because the mothers have chosen life. This means over a hundred women have volunteered this information after the campaign. Seems unlikely that they were pressured or trying to get so-called harrassers off their backs.
“And I never said there weren’t other factors…..That doesn’t mean abortion didn’t have an impact too.” – thank you for moderating your claim.
“And no, I don’t necessarily think rate is more important than number. Rate doesn’t matter one lick to victims of violent crimes. The idea that more people must mean more crimes is too fatalistic for me.” – dichotomy much?
“it’s now up to 659 babies saved” – hm, who accounts for these numbers?
Mary i agree with you here it doesn’t pass the smell test. Why just shoot the baby and not both?
Susan Smith had an affair with a married man and became pregnant before meeting and marrying David Smith. That pregnancy ended in abortion and Smith attempted to kill herself after that. PAS wasn’t acknowled back then so chances are Smith remained mentally unstable. I also remember the Chuck Stuart case quite well. He ended up killing himself. This woman shows little emotion unless its complete shock.
The truth will come out in the wash and if the story is true these boys deserve the maximum punishment!!
Reality I didn’t moderate my claim that was what I said in the first place. And as to the numbers I discussed that with you in another place, and I’m tired of arguing in circles with you. So you keep going and I’ll watch, or not.