The Trayvon Martin Wannabees in pictures and words:
http://chasthuglife.blogspot.com/2013/03/brunswick-georgia.html
http://chasthuglife.blogspot.com/2013/03/brunswick-update-3.html
Police in Brunswick have charged two teens with the intentional murder of the 13-month-old, apparently after a tip from an undaunted aunt of the younger of the pair.
The aunt, Debra Obley, later told a local TV reporter that she had inadvertently given her 15-year-old nephew, Dominique Lane, and 17-year-old De’Marquise Elkins a ride from the vicinity of the shooting a short time afterward.
“When he got in the car, he laid down in the backseat,” Obley said of the older teen. “He kept looking around, peeping up, and I said, ‘Boy, what you doing? You skipping school?’ You know, he said, ‘No, ma’am.’”
Obley recalled that she pressed the matter and Elkins decided to walk. As he climbed out of the car she saw something in his waistband, she said.
“A gun,” she said.
Obley questioned her nephew.
“I said…‘If you’ve got something to do with this little baby, you can’t talk to me. I’m your auntie,’” Obley told the reporter. “He said, ‘Auntie, I don’t even know the boy. I don’t have anything to do with that.’”
Obley said she called the police even though that meant she was also reporting her nephew. She has since been threatened.
“People saying they are going to kill me or have people to kill me, because I’m a snitch,” she said.
She still did not regret making the call.
“That was a baby,” she said. “That baby can’t come back. That mama will never get that baby back. Whoever did it deserves to be behind bars.”
A woman who identified herself as the aunt of the older teen, Elkins, was insisting that he had been at her house having breakfast at the time of the shooting.
“He was with us the whole time,” said the aunt, Katrina Freeman.
Elkins’s lawyer, public defender Kevin Gough, held a press conference. He was joined by the teen’s great-grandfather, 78-year-old McKinley Elkins.
“The De’Marquise we know, the De’Marquise we love, would not do anything like this,” the great-grandfather said. “De’Marquise is not guilty. De’Marquise is innocent.”
The lawyer declared, “De’Marquise is absolutely, positively, 1,000 percent not guilty of these charges against him.”
Elkins’s Facebook page was taken down shortly after his arrest, but not before people had taken screen shots of his photos. One shows a tattoo on his forearm featuring a cross and the letters “RIP.” Others show him flashing Bloods gang signs. Bloods favor the number five, as in a posting under “About De’Marquise.”
“ME IN MY N***AS A TURN UR BLO5K IN TO MURDER SCENE.”