Brunswick, GA Attorney News Archive

At 18 years old, De'Marquise Elkins will have to live the rest of his life being imprisoned without parole for shooting a baby boy to death.

Elkins was found guilty by a jury and a little more than a week later he was meted with life imprisonment which disappointed his defense attorney in Brunswick, Kevin Gough.

Gough said that the sentence was cruel and uncommon given that his client is a juvenile.

Gough added that his young client has had a hard time growing up as his mother was drug dependent and often neglected his care.

Elkins had killed the baby, who was strapped in his stroller, when he was still 17 years old, while he was attempting to rob the infant's mother.

Gough said he will be appealing both the conviction and the life with no parole sentence.