After her parents were found shot to death in the family home, a Georgia teen shared a teary-eyed tribute online – one that failed to convince police, who recently charged the 17-year-old “monster” in the brutal murders of her mother and stepfather.
On February 20, Sarah Grace Patrick, 17, called police to report that her 5-year-old sister had stumbled upon the bodies of their bloody parents, who were dead inside the family’s home near Carrollton, Georgia, about 55 miles west of Atlanta.
When deputies from the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office arrived at the scene on Tyus Road, they discovered Kristin Brock, 41, and her husband James Brock, 45, lying in bed and “deceased from apparent gunshot wounds,” the sheriff said, per NBC.
Emotional TikTok post
Just over a week after the tragic shooting, a heartfelt tribute appeared on TikTok – a daughter’s public display of grief that, at the time, seemed like a touching farewell to her lost parents.
The video – with a caption that read: “I miss you guys, save a seat for me in heaven” – featured a montage of photos of Kristin and James, set to emotional music – with haunting text overlaid, allegedly written by Patrick.
It said: “They don’t know it, but a year from now me and my 5-year-old sister would find them wrongfully shot dead in our home – and they won’t get to watch me graduate high school, see me walk down the aisle, or even say goodbye,” the emotional text said. The account, that has since been deleted, was confirmed by the sheriff’s office to belong to Patrick, per Fox News.
Teary-eyed tribute
Shortly after, Patrick gave a tearful eulogy at her parent’s funeral, claiming she was “lost” without them.
“For those of you who do not know me, my name is Sarah, and I am Kristin Brock’s daughter and James Brock’s stepdaughter,” Patrick started, appearing to get choked up.
The teary-eyed teen – who was wearing a pale blue dress – continued, “I just wanted to say goodbye to my mom and James since we never got the chance to.”
“I want to remember them for who they were and not what happened to them and be happy for the time we got to spend together and not sad about the time that we don’t,” she said.
“I may always and will always be her sunshine, but she will always be my star from up above,” Patrick added of her mother, in the clip shared by relative Krysten Dowda. “And I know at nighttime I can go and look at Mama and Jamie in the sky, and gladly they will save me a seat in heaven like they saved for you.”
Before ending her speech and stepping down from the podium, the teen said: “I’m sorry …”
Apology
But her performance at the funeral wasn’t convincing enough to free Patrick from suspicion.
Singling out her apology, Carroll County Sheriff’s spokesperson Ashley Hulsey told NewsNation:“I can’t tell you if she had real tears…But it seemed odd. It was more like a speech, and at the end she said, ‘I’m sorry.’”
“Was that, ‘I’m sorry because I may have done this,’ or is it, ‘I’m sorry because I was upset during this eulogy’? We may never know,” she said.
‘This is what a monster looks like’
Dowda, who called the high schooler a “monster” and accused her of “fake crying,” suggested she had the answers.
“The feeling of being at a funeral to say goodbye to someone you loved, and thinking to yourself ‘am I actually witnessing the person that murdered them, standing up here in front of everyone and fake crying about them? Does anyone else see this person doing a crying voice but never shed a single tear?’” the woman wrote in the Facebook post that shared the clip of Patrick’s eulogy.
“THIS is what a monster looks like. Monsters DO come in the form of sweet looking girls in dresses sometimes.”
She added, “And luckily in this case, the monster gets to trade her dress for a jumpsuit and handcuffs.”
Double murder charges
In early July, Patrick turned herself in at the Carroll County jail this week, and the teen – who will be tried as an adult – has been charged with two counts of murder and two counts of aggravated assault.
“We don’t know what goes through the mind of a child who wants to harm their parents,” Hulsey said at a livestreamed press conference July 8. “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.”
“Our team has sifted through mountains of physical and digital evidence and collaborated with the FBI and GBI crime lab,” Hulsey added, hinting that Patrick’s carefully curated online persona may have been a calculated performance rather than genuine heartbreak.
‘Saddest victim’
“A big takeaway from this story – a mother and stepfather will never be able to raise their children and the little girl that was in the home,” Husley said, adding that the “saddest victim” is Patrick’s baby sister, who found her parents dead in the bed.
Law enforcement has not yet revealed a motive, but officials say digital evidence played a key role in the case, particularly Patrick’s online activity following the murders.
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