Glynn County Sheriff's Office
Katrina Latrelle Elkins, 33, and Karimah Aisha Elkins, 36, were arrested Tuesday morning.
By Elizabeth Chuck, Staff Writer, NBC News
The mother and aunt of a teenager charged in the death of a Georgia baby were arrested Tuesday for allegedly lying to investigators, police said.
The arrests came the morning after 17-year-old De'Marquise Elkins'?first court appearance?on murder charges in connection with the fatal shooting of 13-month-old Antonio Santiago. Santiago was in a stroller on a walk with his mother, Sherry West, in the coastal town of Brunswick on Thursday when the shooting occurred. West was also shot.
Karima Aisha Elkins, 36, and Katrina Latrelle Elkins, 33, were booked on charges of making false statements to police and concealing facts or providing fraudulent documents in matters of government, Glynn County police said.
According to?FirstCoastNews.com in Georgia, Karima Elkins is De'Marquise's mother; Katrina Elkins is his aunt. The station said the pair was arrested at 6:40 a.m. on Tuesday morning. Karima Elkins posted bond of $1,104 at about 8 a.m., but Katrina Elkins was held in custody for a probation violation hold in neighboring Henry County.
De?Marquise Elkins and 15-year-old Dominique Lang, are both charged as adults in the fatal shooting, which West told police started when the two suspects demanded money. When West told them she didn't have any cash on her, she said the older teen, Elkins, pointed a handgun at her.
Glynn County Police Department
De'Marquise Elkins, age 17.
"He says, 'Well, I'm gonna kill your baby,'" West?said last week. "I put my arms over my baby and he shoves me. And then he shot my baby right in the head."
West, the only eyewitness to the shooting, also received a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the leg, police said.
Elkins' aunt told FirstCoastNews.com over the weekend that she was with her nephew on the morning of the shooting, which happened at about 9 a.m.
"Marquise was with me. At 8 o'clock that morning. At 8:15, De'Marquise, was at my residence," she told the station, adding that she was with him until about 11:30 a.m. "At 12 o'clock, Marquise was signed into adult education. He was not at that crime scene. How can he be two places at one time? ?That's not true. There ain't no way."
A few hours later, she said, she picked him up. "It was a normal day. He wasn't nervous or nothing."
West says she picked the gunman out of a photo lineup of 24 mugshots, and insists Elkins is the killer.
Before Elkins' first court appearance on Monday, public defender Kevin Gough, who represents him, told The Associated Press,?"My client is absolutely, 1,000-percent not guilty."
Elkins did not enter a plea.
Lang, the other suspect, was in eighth grade before his arrest, The Associated Press reported. His grandmother told?WJXT-TV in Jacksonville, Fla., that Lang doesn't even know Elkins and could not have been a part of a killing of a child.
"My grandbaby ain't like that. He a baby, but he's not a baby killer," Verdell Hunter told WJXT-TV. "So they need to get that straight. He's not a baby killer."
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