Carly Madison Gregg captured on surveillance video moments before shooting her teacher mom, Ashley Smylie dead at their Brandon, Mississippi home, after discovering her teen daughter’s secret life as a drug user. Teen lured step-dad, Heath Smylie in a bid to shoot him dead too.
‘Have you ever seen a dead body…?’ A Mississippi teen girl is on trial after prosecutors allege the 15 year old girl shooting dead her mother after it was disclosed to the parent her teen daughter was living a secret life as a drug user.
Video played in the courtroom (see below in the immediate aftermath of Carly Madison Gregg, a then 14 year old allegedly shooting her own mother dead, showed the teen sitting in the kitchen alongside her two dogs, as she texted her friend that she had an emergency as she sought to lure her stepfather back home, who the girl would also allege attempt to shoot dead.
Carly Gregg found guilty of murder amid psychopath evaluation
Teen caught on surveillance walking across room to shoot mom dead
Prosecutors claim, Gregg shot her high school teacher mom, Ashley Smylie dead inside their Brandon, MS. home on March 19 when Smylie discovered her daughter’s ‘secret life.’
Moments before shooting her mom dead, Gregg, seen wearing a Nirvana band shirt, can be seen awkwardly shuffling in the house, holding something behind her back, later identified as a .357 Magnum handgun, and facing the home surveillance 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.
Carly Gregg’s secret life
‘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 according to the nypost.
Gregg was captured on home surveillance cameras walking around the house before allegedly firing three shots at Smylie.
Prosecutors accuse the teen of killing her mom 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] mom didn’t know about, that he felt compelled to tell Miss Ashley Smylie that day,’ Rankin County Assistant District Attorney said Monday.
‘Have you ever seen a dead body?’
Gregg allegedly texted a friend asking him to come over, claiming there was an ’emergency’ before revealing the gravity of the situation.
‘Have you ever seen a dead body? My mom is in there,’ Gregg told the friend, 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 testifies
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.
‘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.’
The psychiatrist went on to claim that the teen had inherited a bipolar disease (from her biological father) that included her hearing voices in her head from as young as six years old.
During the winding down of defense statements, 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 recognized 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.
The teen 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.
