Teen’s calm act after was mum shot dead in face, allegedly by her

A court has been shown dramatic footage from inside the home moments after the then 14-year-old allegedly killed her mother.

Chilling video shows a teenager in the US calmly walking through her home before she allegedly gunned down her mum – then sent texts to lure her stepdad into the house and shot him too, according to prosecutors.

Carly Gregg, 15, is accused of murdering her mother, high school teacher Ashley Smylie, inside their Brandon, MS. home on March 19 when Smylie discovered her daughter’s “secret life.”

Gregg, wearing a Nirvana band shirt, awkwardly shuffled around the house holding something behind her back, later identified as a .357 Magnum handgun, and facing the camera so it could not detect the weapon, according to footage shown in court on Tuesday.

Images have shown the chilling scene inside a home where a teenage girl allegedly killed her mother with a handgun.

The teen walked across the house and disappeared behind a wall into her mother’s bedroom when a loud bang, alleged to be a gunshot, goes off as Smylie’s scream is detected by the camera, footage obtained by Law & Crime captured.

Two more shots were then fired.

Gregg returned to the kitchen ten seconds after the alleged shooting, again hiding the weapon, as she grabbed her mother’s phone off the counter and sat on a stool as the two dogs stood beside her.

Prosecutors allege that Gregg was trying to lure her stepfather Heath Smylie back to the home.

“When will you be home honey?” a text message read, according to the outlet.

When Heath Smylie returned to the house, Gregg shot him in the shoulder, before the stepfather overpowered the teen and wrestled the gun from her.

The mother and daughter duo had just returned home from school when the teen let the dogs out as Ashley Smylie searched Gregg’s room and discovered vape pens, according to WLBT.

The Northwest Rankin High School math teacher was tipped off earlier in the day that Gregg had been using drugs.

The then 14-year-old was captured on home surveillance cameras walking around the house before allegedly firing three shots at Smylie.

Ashley Smylie, 40, a math teacher at Northwest Rankin High School, was pronounced dead from a gunshot to the face.

Prosecutors accuse the teen of killing her mother because a friend had told her about Gregg’s “secret life” with drugs, on the day of the shooting.

“From the testimony of a friend, he was so worried about Carly’s use of smoking marijuana, so worried about her being high, and so worried about her having these burner phones, that [Carly’s] mother didn’t know about, that he felt compelled to tell Miss Ashley Smylie that day,” Rankin County Assistant District Attorney said Monday.

Gregg allegedly texted a friend asking him to come over, claiming there was an “emergency” before revealing the horrifying situation.

“Have you ever seen a dead body? My mother is in there,” the friend claimed, according to WLBT.

Ashley Smylie, 40, was pronounced dead from a gunshot to the face.

Gregg broke down into tears on Monday when the courtroom was shown bodycam footage from the Sheriff’s Office arriving at the home and discovering a crying Heath Smylie saying his wife was dead inside.

Psychiatrist Dr Andrew Clark testified that the teen was facing a mental health crisis that day, having significant mood swings made worse by her medications as she was hearing voices and having dissociative problems.

Gregg fled from the home after allegedly shooting her mother and stepfather.

“And then, her mother finds out she’s smoking marijuana,” Clark said in court according to WAPT. “For Carly, in particular, she so cared about her mother’s approval, so for her, this was a crisis.”

Clark and Heath Smylie both said in court that Gregg had no recollection of the shooting.

“I never seen anybody like that, even in movies, she was not herself and I do not believe she even recognised me,” Smylie said during his stepdaughter’s trial.

He added that he and Gregg still talk daily and their relationship is “good.”

Gregg has been charged with murder, attempted murder and tampering with evidence.

She turned down a plea deal and faces up to life in prison for the murder charge, plus 30 years to life for the other charges if found guilty.

This article originally appeared in the New York Post and was reproduced with permission

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