A 17-year-old allegedly gunned down her church-going mom and stepfather inside their Georgia dwelling earlier than her youthful sister found the useless couple.
Sarah Grace Patrick turned herself in on the Carroll County jail on Tuesday after she was charged with the Feb. 20 murders of Kristen Brock, 41, and James Brock, 45, WSB-TV reported.
Their our bodies have been found in mattress at their Tyus dwelling by the couple’s 5-year-old daughter, and investigators mentioned the alleged 17-year-old killer was the one to name 911.
“From the very moment the 911 call was received, a relentless investigation began,” Carroll County Sheriff’s Workplace spokeswoman Ashley Hulsey mentioned throughout a press convention Tuesday.
On the homicide scene, investigators instantly observed there have been no indicators of pressured entry into the house — though one door of the home was left barely ajar — and nothing had been taken.
“Our team has sifted through mountains of physical and digital evidence and collaborated with the FBI and GBI crime lab,” Hulsey mentioned
Hulsey additionally mentioned one other key piece of proof they used to cost the teenager was her tearful speech at her mom’s funeral, which investigators imagine was a ploy to assist cowl her tracks.
Authorities mentioned it took months to cost the teenager as a result of investigators wished to make sure they obtained the fitting individual, who they imagine orchestrated the “horrific crime.”
Patrick — who shall be tried as an grownup — has been charged with two counts of homicide and two counts of aggravated assault.
Investigators are nonetheless working to find a motive for the killings.
“We don’t know what goes through the mind of a child who wants to harm their parents,” Hulsey mentioned.
“She’s 17. She’s kind of been out on her own. She’s lived with different family members and moved all over the place.”
Regardless that Patrick has been charged, Hulsey mentioned investigators aren’t ruling something out on this case, and are pursuing the likelihood that extra arrests shall be made.
“Any information, no matter how small it may seem, could be just that key that cracks this case wide open,” she mentioned.
Hulsey mentioned the tragedy of the homicide is the trauma the couple’s 5-year-old daughter will face discovering their our bodies.
“A little girl who was in the home, to me, she is probably the saddest victim in all of this,” she mentioned.
The couple have been energetic members of the Catalyst Church, with parishioners telling Fox 5 Atlanta that they’re remembered for his or her kind-hearted and beneficiant loving nature.
“Kristen was bubbly and fun and she loved hugs. She never met a stranger. And James, he was a comical kind of guy. He would always crack jokes and always say something to make you laugh,” Tasha Meza mentioned.
“[Kristin] always encouraged you. She was definitely the friend that you would want to have around,” one other member of the church, Janelle Thompson, informed the outlet.
Earlier than the 17-year-old’s arrest, members pleaded for the killer to show themselves in.
“I just wish they would turn themselves in,” Jonan Daniel mentioned in February. “We all make mistakes, but this family doesn’t need to suffer more.”
The couple is survived by their seven youngsters, whom that they had collectively of their mixed household.
If Patrick is convicted, she faces life in jail with out the potential for parole.
