Man Particulars Horrific, 14-Hour ‘Torture’ by Roommates Accused of Tying Him Up & Setting Him on Fire

Carly Gregg of Brandon, MS was 14 when the March 2024 capturing went down earlier this yr. Her mother, Ashley Smylie, was killed — sooner than her stepfather, Heath Smylie, was moreover shot at sooner than Gregg allegedly ran from the scene.

On Thursday in courtroom, Dr. Andrew Clark testified about interviews he had with Gregg months after the incident. He acknowledged that throughout the six weeks predominant as a lot as her arrest, Gregg started smoking marijuana; he moreover testified she had a troubled childhood nonetheless was an important pupil with good grades.

She allegedly knowledgeable him that she started listening to voices throughout the ages of 6 by 9, which returned when she was spherical 11 or 12. He moreover acknowledged she knowledgeable him she began lowering herself throughout the similar time. Throughout the months sooner than her arrest, she was having trouble sleeping, was positioned on Zoloft, sooner than being switched to Lexapro, whereas moreover smoking marijuana.

He claimed that just one week sooner than the capturing, she wrote in her journal, “I imagine I had a psychotic break earlier. The complete ordeal was pretty silly truly, I spoke with certainly one of many voices in my head … my particular good buddy and I’ve been screaming bloodthirstily and ravenously.”

“She was having mood factors, consuming dysfunction factors, lowering herself, listening to voices and sleeping drawback, all predominant as a lot as January 2024,” he acknowledged, sooner than describing the voices she allegedly heard.

“She knowledgeable me the one issue the voices acknowledged to her have been points which have been form of elitist, like, you’re greater than these people,” he claimed. “So her mood is poor, the voices are getting worse, her sleep continues to be harmful and she or he’s smoking marijuana 2-3 events each week. She’s moreover reporting she had a superb amount of hysteria all through this time as correctly.”

He reportedly recognized her with Bipolar 2, which he believes was made worse by her Lexapro. He moreover acknowledged she had some form of dissociative dysfunction … and didn’t think about the murder was a “well-planned out scheme.”

Of the day of the murder, Gregg allegedly knowledgeable Clark she couldn’t keep in mind one thing that occurred after letting the family canine open air. She acknowledged her memory then continued after she was found by the side of the freeway by police after the incident.

Moreover on the witness stand on Thursday was Deputy Tony Shack, who reportedly shared bodycam footage with the courtroom of him driving Gregg once more to the scene of the crime after they found her on the side of the freeway.

As they get her out of the auto to test her arms for gunpowder residue, she says she doesn’t keep in mind which hand she shot with whereas getting swabbed. She moreover requested certainly one of many officers, “Is my stepdad okay?”

One in every of many cops then requested her, “Are you okay?” — sooner than she replies, “Yeah, I’m optimistic.”

In accordance with assistant district authorized skilled Kathryn Newman, certainly one of many teen’s associates was “so nervous about Carly’s use of smoking marijuana,” and the lady using burner telephones, “that he felt compelled to tell Miss Ashley Smylie that day.” Smylie was a teacher at Northwest Rankin Extreme School, the place her daughter was a pupil.

Per prosecutors, Smylie began searching her daughter’s room after they returned dwelling from school that day and situated vape pens. In accordance with Newman, that’s when {the teenager} went into her dad and mother’ mattress room and grabbed a Magnum pistol from beneath the mattress.

Security video, within the meantime, appears to point Gregg stroll from her dad and mother’ room to her private mattress room — hiding one factor, believed to be the gun, behind her once more. Audio then catches what looks as if a gunshot, adopted by a scream and two further gunshots. Gregg is then seen going into the kitchen, the place she immediately begins using a phone whereas moreover singing to the family canine.

In accordance with prosecutors, {the teenager}’s stepfather began receiving messages from Ashley’s phone, asking, “When will you be dwelling, honey?” — alleging Gregg is the one who despatched these messages. {The teenager} could be accused of reaching out to fairly a couple of associates, asking for help. One amongst them did reply to her pleas, and was allegedly requested if “she had ever seen a dull physique sooner than,” along with whether or not or not the nice buddy was “squeamish spherical lifeless our our bodies?”

Per prosecutors, Gregg then confirmed the witness the sufferer’s physique — and claimed her stepfather was subsequent — saying, “I put three in my mom and I obtained three further prepared for my stepdad when he’ll get dwelling.” The great buddy allegedly was knowledgeable to attend throughout the yard, sooner than she heard gunshots and observed Gregg working.

When Heath Smylie took the stand on Tuesday, he testified that when he opened the door to the kitchen of the home, “the gun went off in my face sooner than the door was even 3 to 4 inches large open, and each half form of went pretty fast from there.”

Video from one different digital digicam reveals him arriving dwelling, sooner than screaming from inside the house could also be heard, along with him shouting, “Carly!” Gregg is then seen working from the home, with Heath on her tail. “It appeared like she was terrified … she was screaming out of her ideas, scared, like she had seen a demon, or one factor,” he testified.

{The teenager} was charged as an grownup with murder, tried murder and tampering with proof. She reportedly rejected a 40-year jail sentence plea deal, collectively along with her safety crew pleading insanity. In courtroom on Tuesday, one amongst her associates reportedly testified Gregg heard voices in her head every sooner than and after her arrest.

The trial is ongoing.