{"id":24123,"date":"2024-06-26T12:12:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T16:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=24123"},"modified":"2024-06-26T12:12:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T16:12:56","slug":"lakewood-mom-charged-with-murdering-children-ages-1-and-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2024\/06\/lakewood-mom-charged-with-murdering-children-ages-1-and-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakewood Mom Charged With Murdering Children, Ages 1 and 3"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Naomi Elkins (Photo: Ocean County Jail)<\/p><\/div>\n

A Lakewood woman has been charged with killing her two small children, ages 1 and 3, on Tuesday, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n

Naomi Elkins, 27, of Lakewood, was charged with two counts of murder, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and unlawful possession of a weapon, all in connection with the deaths of the two children, who were pronounced dead at their home after EMTs were unable to revive them.<\/p>\n

According to a statement from the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office, police were called to a home on Shenandoah Drive approximately 4:50 p.m. for a report of two children in cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n

Responding Officers found Hatzolah Medical Services attempting to render lifesaving aid to the two minor children, however lifesaving efforts were unsuccessful, and both children were pronounced deceased at the scene. A subsequent investigation local and county law enforcement revealed that both victims were Elkins\u2019 children.<\/p>\n

It was further determined that the one year-old victim had been stabbed, and that both children had been drowned, the statement said.<\/p>\n

\u201cA continuing investigation revealed that Elkins was responsible for the deaths of both of her children,\u201d the statement said, without delving into further details into the circumstances surrounding the case.<\/p>\n

Elkins was taken into custody at the scene without incident. She was transported to the Ocean County Jail, where she is presently lodged pending a detention hearing.<\/p>\n

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A Lakewood woman has been charged with killing her two small children, ages 1 and 3, on Tuesday, according to prosecutors. Naomi Elkins, 27, of Lakewood, was charged with two counts of murder, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and unlawful possession of a weapon, all in connection with the deaths of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[24,4484,232,5238],"class_list":["post-24123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-police-fire-courts","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-featured","tag-murder","tag-naomi-elkins"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Elkins.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-6h5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}