Statement Analysis was done on this case as the mother's words revealed the truth.
http://statement-analysis.blogspot.com/2013/03/statement-analysis-of-mother-of-baby.html
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/brunswicktoddlermurder/article/305674/634/Daughter-of-Brunswick-victim-questions-mothers-story
Statement Analysis has shown sensitivity surrounding the issue of money for the mother of the baby that was shot. Her account showed sensitivity, and the mother spoke about how "expensive" a baby is.
Her statements are so strange that it is no wonder that law enforcement suspected her before arresting two teens.
Here, the grown daughter, Ashley Glassey, says of her mother:
"How soon do you think life insurance policy will send me a check?"
and
"She changed her story as far as she told me that the baby was shot first and then she told me that she was shot first. "
The daughter shared her concerns about her mother with police.
Mother shot 13-month-old boy in stroller for insurance money, say defense attorneys for teen charged in murder
Jury selection in the trial of De'Marquise Elkins, 18, begins Monday, but his lawyers say Sherry West had 'financial interest in the death of her son,' Antonio Santiago.
Attorneys are set to pin a Georgia mother who witnessed her 13-month-old son heartlessly shot between the eyes as the real killer behind his death.
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On March 21, Antonio Santiago was fatally shot in his stroller just days after his first birthday in Brunswick, Ga.
Defense attorneys say Sherry West had "financial interest in the death of her son," Antonio Santiago, after she took out a life insurance policy before his savage murder in March, according to a pretrial motion.
"Other evidence of record suggests Sherry West is mentally unstable, gave several inconsistent accounts of how the crime transpired, and had a financial interest in the death of her son in the form of an insurance policy," public defender Kevin Gough said in a court motion filed Aug. 5.
Jury selection begins Monday at the Cobb County courthouse in Marietta where 18-year-old De'Marquise Elkins faces life in prison if convicted of Antonio's murder.
West was pushing her child in a stroller on March 21, six weeks after his first birthday, when prosecutors say she was held at gunpoint by the then 17-year-old whose age spared him a possible death sentence if convicted.
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Defense prosecutors say they plan to paint Antonio Santiago's mother, Sherry West, as a mother who had financial interest in the death of her son.
When the mother was discovered empty handed, the teen who prosecutors say shot a man only 10 days earlier in another attempted street robbery continued.
"He kept asking, and I just said 'I don't have it,"' West recalled to The Associated Press the day after the slaying. "And he said, 'Do you want me to kill your baby?' And I said, 'No, don't kill my baby!"'
A single .22-caliber bullet was fired between the child's eyes. A second bullet struck the mother's leg and a third grazed her left ear.
Witnesses who responded to the scene said they found West desperately attempting to administer CPR to her child's lifeless body.
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Defense attorneys say the boy's mother was the only one who claimed to have seen De'Marquise Elkins pull the trigger — evidence that the mother might be setting the 18-year-old up.
Elkins' alleged accomplice, 15-year-old Dominique Lang, who has told investigators Elkins fired the gun that shot the boy, is also charged with murder but will be tried later on. He's expected to be a key witness against Elkins.
Hoping to debunk West's innocence, defense attorneys argue that West was the only one who claims to have seen Elkins pull the trigger.
She also jumped to cash in her life insurance policy on her baby in the days immediately after, according to her 21-year-old daughter, Ashley Glassey.
Speaking to WTLV in late March, Glassey said her mother called her just days after Antonio's shooting to inform her of her young brother's death and also ask, "How soon do you think the life insurance policy will send me a check?"
Glassey said her mother's bizarre behavior of crying one moment and sounding completely fine the next, made her suspicious.
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De Marquise Elkins will not face the death penalty if convicted of murder because he was a minor at the time.
When Glassey was contacted on July 30 by an attorney for Elkins in Woodstown, N.J., Glassey, who was being held in jail for failing to appear in court in an unrelated case, declined to confirm her story told to WTLV.
"I don't want to incriminate anyone," she said, according to a transcript.
Defense attorneys have said in court filings that they have audio recordings and documents showing the child's mother had dealings with Gerber Life Insurance Co.
According to its website, Gerber Life sells life insurance policies for children starting as early as infancy.
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Dominique Lang has told investigators that he saw Elkins shoot the baby and his mother. Lang, who is charged as an accomplice in the child's murder, is set to appear as a key witness in Elkins' trial.
Coverage runs from $5,000 to $50,000.
Defense attorneys additionally point out that small traces of gunshot residue were found on West's hands as well as her husband's.
During a preliminary court hearing the boy's father Louis Santiago said he touched the bullet wound on West's leg before his hands were swabbed.
A single microscopic particle of gunshot residue was found, according to lab tests by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. More than five particles showed up in swabs from West's hands.
Elkins' mother Karimah Aisha Elkins, left, and Katrina Latrelle Elkins, right, were arrested for allegedly providing false statements or writings. Police say Karimah Elkins and her sister, Debra Obey, helped hide evidence in the crime.
The GBI report pressed by the attorneys cautioned that gunshot victims can end up with residue on them.
In a court filing Wednesday, District Attorney Jackie Johnson argued that Elkins' defense lawyers have made "false, inflammatory and misleading statements."
Police have also said that much of their evidence against the teen came from his own family and charged accomplice, with little evidence found at the scene.
A 22-caliber revolver was recovered in a pond near the scene after speaking with Elkins' mother and aunt who are set to stand trial this week alongside the teen.
Elkins' mother, Karimah Elkins, is charged with lying to police. She and her sister, Debra Obey, are also charged with evidence tampering.
Prosecutors say Karimah Elkins and Obey gave police conflicting alibis for Elkin's whereabouts at the time of the shooting. Obey originally told police her nephew and Karimah Elkins came to her for a ride the day of the slaying. She said Elkins ducked down in the backseat of her car, as if he was hiding.
Elkins was later fingered in a line up by West.
Superior Court Judge Stephen Kelley has set aside two weeks for the trial that will be held 325 miles to the suburbs outside Atlanta.
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