Sherry West: Mother of Shot Baby

A mother reported that her baby had been shot dead by two young males.

When this story first broke, police spoke boldly intimated to the public that a baby killer was not on the run.

We then heard the mother's statements we understood why the police were so zoned on her:

Sensitivity indicators focused upon money, and she used passivity in language. This is often used when one wishes to conceal identity or responsibility.

Then police arrested two teens, and people dismissed the mother's language as stemming from bi polar disorder, with lots of discussion about her choice of words.  Police said, then, that the shootings were random, in a robbery.

Then the mother spoke again and it was all about the expense of having a baby, and that this is her second child murdered.  Her own grown daughter told the news that something wasn't right in the case, and that her mother's story had changed.

I don't think that there are odds for something like this.

Yet it was the repetition over "money" that grabbed our attention.  The grown daughter said that money was what was most on her mother's mind, including asking how quickly she would get a check from the insurance company.

Now we see that more information is coming forward.

Now, the defense is  investigating that there was something done involving the mother and a life insurance policy, as well as accusations of drugs and prostitution.

The accused' attorney said that West refuse to answer the knock at the door to serve her.

stay tuned...

BRUNSWICK, Ga. -- The family of DeMarquise Elkins had little to say when they left the Glynn County Courthouse Friday, moments after a judge decided to keep the 17-year-old murder suspect in jail.

"I hereby deny bond at this time," said Superior Court Judge Stephen Kelley.

Elkins and 15-year-old Dominique Lang are charged with the shooting death of 13-month-old Antonio Santiago on March 21, in what the child's mother described as an attempted robbery.

"They just killed him in his sleep. Shot him right in the face," she cried just hours after the shooting in an interview with Action News.  She was also injured in the shooting.


But now, Sherry West's credibility is being questioned. In new court documents filed Friday, Elkins' defense team is requesting a drug test from West, claiming a crack addiction could have clouded her recollection of what happened that day. She is the only eyewitness.

"We have filed our motions and we're not going to comment in the motions that we've filed at this point," said public defender Kevin Gough.

We told you about another motion filed earlier this week, suggesting there was a murder-for-hire scheme, a possible plot to obtain money from the baby's life insurance policy.  New documents claim West and the baby's father may have been involved in a false insurance claim before.

The case goes to court again next month.