Creepy image shows teenager luring her stepfather home after killing her mother

A Mississippi teenager lured her stepfather home to have him shot after killing her mother and posing as her in text messages, prosecutors alleged Monday in opening arguments in a murder trial.

The New York Post reported that 15-year-old Carly Gregg allegedly texted her stepfather, “When are you coming home, honey?” Shortly after she returned home from school with her mother, Ashley Smylie, she shot her with a .357 Magnum. Smylie, 40, was a math teacher at Gregg's school, Northwest Rankin High School.

Gregg was charged with murder, attempted murder and tampering with evidence. She was caught on security cameras pacing around her home moments after she allegedly shot her mother three times.

When her stepfather, Heath Smylie, came home, Gregg shot him in the shoulder before managing to wrest the gun from her.

“We believe the testimony will show that she poked her head around the kitchen to make sure her mother had not come out of her bedroom,” Assistant District Attorney Kathryn Newman told a Rankin County jury. “We believe the evidence will then show that she walked with the .357 Magnum on her back, went into her own bedroom and then fired three shots at her mother, killing her.”

Prosecutors said Gregg's mother recently learned about her “secret life.” A friend of Gregg's told her she had been using drugs and getting high on marijuana. WLBT reported that Ashley found vape pens in Gregg's room when they came home from school.

Video footage shows two dogs running around the kitchen in a panic before Gregg comes back into frame, hides the gun from the security camera and answers a phone. Her mother was pronounced dead at the scene after suffering a gunshot wound to the face.

In sheriff's office body camera footage, which was also shown in court, Gregg reportedly burst into tears when police arrived and found her mother dead.

According to prosecutors, Gregg also texted a friend asking him to come over because of an “emergency.”

“Have you ever seen a dead body? My mother is in there,” Gregg is said to have told his friend.

Psychiatrist Andrew Clark, who testified in court, said the teenager had been having a mental crisis and was hearing voices.

“For Carly in particular, her mother's approval was so important that it was a crisis for her,” Clark said in court. He added that Gregg had lost all memory of the shooting.

Her stepfather Heath said he still has a “good” relationship with Gregg.

“I've never seen anyone like her, not even in movies. She wasn't herself and I don't think she even recognized me,” her stepfather said in court, according to WLBT.

If Gregg is found guilty, she could spend the rest of her life in prison for murder.