A Mississippi teen sat in her kitchen alongside her two canines moments after she allegedly killed her mom as she is accused of texting her pal that she had an “emergency” and tried to lure her stepfather again to the house.
Carly Gregg, 15, is accused of murdering her mother, highschool instructor Ashley Smylie, inside their Brandon, MS. residence on March 19 when Smylie found her daughter’s “secret life.”
Gregg, sporting a Nirvana band shirt, awkwardly shuffled round the home holding one thing behind her again, later recognized as a .357 Magnum handgun, and going through the digicam so it couldn’t detect the weapon, in keeping with footage proven to a Rankin County courtroom on Tuesday.
The teenager walked throughout the home and disappeared behind a wall into her mom’s bed room when a loud bang, presumably a gunshot, goes off as Smylie’s scream is detected by the digicam, footage obtained by Regulation & Crime captured.
Two extra photographs had been then fired.
Gregg returned to the kitchen ten seconds after the alleged capturing, once more hiding the weapon, as she grabbed her mom’s cellphone off the counter and sat on a stool as the 2 canines stood beside her.
Prosecutors allege that Gregg was making an attempt to lure her stepfather Heath Smylie again to the house.
“When will you be residence honey?” a textual content message learn, in keeping with the outlet.
When Heath Smylie returned to the home, Gregg shot him within the shoulder, earlier than the stepfather overpowered the teenager and wrestled the gun from her.
The mother and daughter duo had simply returned residence from college when the teenager let the canines out as Ashley Smylie searched Gregg’s room and found vape pens, in keeping with WLBT.
The Northwest Rankin Excessive College math instructor was tipped off earlier within the day that Gregg had been utilizing medication.
The then 14-year-old was captured on residence surveillance cameras strolling round the home earlier than allegedly firing three photographs at Smylie
Prosecutors accuse the teenager of killing her mother as a result of a pal had instructed her about Gregg’s “secret life” with medication, on the day of the capturing.
“From the testimony of a pal, he was so anxious about Carly’s use of smoking marijuana, so anxious about her being excessive, and so anxious about her having these burner telephones, that [Carly’s] mother didn’t find out about, that he felt compelled to inform Miss Ashley Smylie that day,” Rankin County Assistant District Legal professional stated Monday.
Gregg allegedly texted a pal asking him to return over, claiming there was an “emergency” earlier than revealing the horrifying scenario.
“Have you ever ever seen a useless physique? My mother is in there,” the pal claimed, in keeping with WLBT.
Ashley Smylie, 40, was pronounced useless from a gunshot to the face.
Gregg broke down into tears on Monday when the courtroom was proven bodycam footage from the Sheriff’s Workplace arriving on the residence and discovering a crying Heath Smylie saying his spouse was useless inside.
Psychiatrist Dr. Andrew Clark testified that the teenager was going through a psychological well being disaster that day, having important temper swings made worse by her medicines as she was listening to voices and having dissociative issues.
“After which, her mom finds out she’s smoking marijuana,” Clark stated in court docket in keeping with WAPT. “For Carly, specifically, she so cared about her mom’s approval, so for her, this was a disaster.”
Clark and Heath Smylie each stated in court docket that Gregg had no recollection of the capturing.
“I by no means seen anyone like that, even in motion pictures, she was not herself and I don’t imagine she even acknowledged me,” Smylie stated throughout his stepdaughter’s trial.
He added that he and Gregg nonetheless speak every day and their relationship is “good.”
Gregg has been charged with homicide, tried homicide and tampering with proof.
She turned down a plea deal and faces as much as life in jail for the homicide cost, plus 30 years to life for the opposite costs if discovered responsible.
