A teenager accused of shooting dead her mother and attempting to kill her stepfather was filmed playing with her mobile phone and texting a friend moments after the shooting.
Harrowing footage of Carly Gregg calmly wandering around her kitchen was played in court during her murder trial in Mississippi.
The 15-year-old was just 14 when she allegedly shot her mother inside their home on March 19. She rejected a 40-year plea deal and her legal team is instead seeking an insanity defense.
In the video, Gregg entered the kitchen wearing a Nirvana T-shirt and walked back and forth down the hallway, disappearing off camera briefly before returning, holding something behind his back and looking toward the kitchen.
She walked off camera again in the opposite direction moments before three shots were heard.
Harrowing footage of Carly Gregg calmly wandering around her kitchen was played in court during her murder trial in Mississippi this week.
The 15-year-old, who was 14 at the time of her alleged crimes, rejected a 40-year plea deal and her legal team is instead seeking an insanity defense.
After the first shot, a woman was heard screaming and then the room fell silent.
Moments later, Gregg was seen on camera again, casually sitting on a stool near the kitchen bench and texting on her phone as her two dogs looked on.
Gregg’s mother, Ashley Smylie, 40, a math teacher, was fatally shot in the face.
Prosecutors allege Gregg then used his mother’s phone to text his stepfather Heath in an attempt to lure him home. Law and crime reported.
A text message sent from Smylie’s phone to Heath read: “When will you be home, honey?”
When Heath returned home, police allege Gregg shot him, hitting him once in the shoulder.
Prosecutors allege Gregg then used his mother’s phone to text his stepfather Heath in an attempt to lure him home.
She walked off camera again in the opposite direction moments before three shots rang out.
The court heard Heath grabbed the gun from Gregg before she could shoot him again, prompting her to flee the scene.
Police allege that while on the phone, Gregg texted one of his friends, known by the pseudonym BW, asking him to come to the house due to an “emergency.”
When the friend arrived, Gregg allegedly asked her “if she had ever seen a dead body before” and led the witness to her mother’s body.
Heath testified in court that he saw his wife’s body when he got home.
“I knew he had been shot, there was blood around it, I’m not sure exactly where, on the right side of his face.”
Gregg’s mother, math teacher Ashley Smylie, 40, was fatally shot in the face.
He said Gregg had once been a “sweet little girl” but looked “like she had seen a demon” on the day in question.
“When I opened the kitchen door, the gun went off in my face before the door was even open three or four inches wide,” he said.
‘The gun hit me in the face. It went off two more times, but after the first shot I had my hand in hers and I pulled her away from Carly.’
The court heard on Wednesday from psychiatrist Dr Andrew Clark, who said he believes Gregg “blacked out” for up to 90 minutes on the day of the alleged offence.
Gregg had confided to Dr Clark that he had started using marijuana, the court heard, several times a week and was worried his mother would find out.
But he also accepted that someone in Gregg’s position would have a motive to “fake” mental illness.
Dr Clark told the court that Gregg told him she had been having “auditory hallucinations” for years before the alleged offence, but that the voices in her head had never “commanded” her to do anything.
Gregg had confided to Dr. Clark that he had started smoking marijuana, several times a week, and was worried about his mother finding out, the court heard.
The court heard that she had been using marijuana at least up until the day before the alleged incident. She had also been prescribed Lexapro and Zoloft, both medications for mood disorders.
She is charged with murder, attempted murder and tampering with evidence, and faces a life sentence if convicted.
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