A 14-year-old teen girl concluded that the best way to deal with her parents after her mother found out she was using drugs was to shoot and kill them.
The home surveillance camera captured Carly Gregg on March 19, entering a room in her family home as she concealed what is believed to be a gun. Moments later, shots are fired as her mom, 40-year-old Ashley Smylie, lets out screams and is killed.
She emerges from killing her mom while still seemingly hiding the firearm behind her back, then sits and goes through a phone.
Carly then lures her stepfather, Heath Smylie, back home by texting him with her mother’s phone. She then shoots him twice, hitting him on the shoulder. Luckily, Smylie survived the attack.
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She then called a friend over, asking her if she had ever seen a dead body, before leading her to her mother’s corpse.
She was subsequently arrested and stands to be sentenced to life imprisonment. Seeking a speedy conclusion, the prosecuting team offered her a plea deal of 40 years behind bars, but she refused.
In her defense, Psychiatrist Dr. Andrew Clark said Carly was having a “mental health crisis” due to her medications, following her mom discovering her “secret”. She was also claimed to be bipolar, due her her biological father being diagnosed with the disorder.
The prosecuting team brought forward Dr. Jason Pickett, a psychiatrist, who concluded that she did not meet the state’s standard for insanity at the time she committed the offense, and that she was fully aware of her actions.
Carly Gregg shocked the audience in the courtroom when she was caught trying to hold off laughter when she was watching one of her defense team scrawl something on a piece of paper. Nobody however knows their intention or what was written on the paper.
