Mississippi girl Carly Gregg, 15, seen texting stepdad seconds after allegedly fatally shooting mom Ashley Smylie who discovered her secret life
A Mississippi teen sat in her kitchen alongside her two dogs moments after she allegedly killed her mother as she is accused of texting her friend that she had an “emergency” and tried to lure her stepfather back to the home.Carly Gregg, 15, is accused of murdering her mom, 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 to a Rankin County courtroom on Tuesday.The teen walked across the house and disappeared behind a wall into her mother’s bedroom when a loud bang, presumably 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 mom 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 SmylieProsecutors accuse the teen of killing her mom because a friend had told her about Gregg’s “secret l...