A disturbing murder case has shocked the US: After a 14-year-old shot her mother, video surveillance footage shows the teen calmly typing on his cell phone. She texted a friend asking if she had ever seen a dead body — shortly after, she shot her stepfather.
It looks like an innocent everyday life, which makes the scene even more shocking. Video from a security camera at the Smylie family’s Mississippi home shows daughter Carly calmly entering the kitchen on her cell phone. The family’s two dogs are in tow. The 14-year-old appears completely emotionless in her blue Nirvana T-shirt. Prosecutors allege that she killed her mother Ashley seconds earlier—with a gunshot to the face.
Mother discovered the teenager smoking weed
The murder trial of the baby-faced teenage girl is shaking America. According to prosecutor Kathryn Newman, Carly decided to kill her mother and stepfather because they discovered her “secret life”: she secretly smoked marijuana. During the trial, the prosecutor played the video of the girl walking out of the room with her stepfather’s Magnum revolver behind her back.
In this post you can see the video and photos of the victim and the suspects:
Stepfather lured home for attack
After the crime, she allegedly texted her stepfather Heath from her mother’s cell phone to come home immediately. While she waited, Carly texted a friend, “Come over, it’s an emergency.” Followed by, “Have you ever seen a dead body? My mom’s here!”
Victim: “Didn’t recognize me”
On the stand, Heath Smylie described his stepdaughter as a “sweet little girl” – who shot him in the shoulder as he walked unsuspectingly through the door of the house. He managed to wrest the gun from her hand: “She wasn’t herself. I don’t think she recognized me!” Andrew Clark testified on the stand that he had previously treated Carly for mental health issues. She had suffered from severe mood swings, dissociative behavior and heard voices. According to the expert, smoking marijuana had exacerbated her problems: “When her mother found out she was smoking marijuana, it caused a mental health crisis for Carly.”
The now 15-year-old suspect swears that she blacked out on the day of the crime and to this day can’t remember anything. Her lawyer therefore pleads insanity. The prosecutor sees it differently. They have charged Carly as an adult and want to put her behind bars for life. The video was played by prosecutor Newman as evidence that the defendant “knew exactly what she was doing and even hid the gun behind her back because she knew there was a camera.”
Source: Krone
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