A transgender teenager charged with double-homicide, called 911 in an attempt to misdirect the investigation, police in Palm Bay, Florida, said as they released the disingenuous audio

Julia Grace Egler, 16, is accused fatally shot her mother Kelley McCollom, 41, and her mother’s boyfriend, Matthew Szejnrok, 22, at home in Tampa, Florida

Egler apparently tried to shift the blame to an unidentified ‘masked man’ that broke into her home on July 6 and

Police released the 911 call Julia made after gunning down mother, 41, shooting her boy toy, 22, before allegedly stabbing him with a chef’s knife, when she ran out of bullets

She’s heard crying hysterically on the call just after midnight, telling a dispatcher the masked man must have used a hammer to break the sliding glass back door

Questioned further by the officer, Julian changed her story stating,’I don’t think that the door was locked, but I don’t think he knew there was a hammer by the back window’

When the operator asked whether it was her family’s hammer or if the assailant brought a hammer of his own, Egler replied: ‘It was just the house hammer. It was just by the back [inaudible]

‘I think they grabbed it and broke in the window’, she said, however investigations unearthed a trove of evidence pointing to her

Armed with the evidence, officers eventually brought Egler in for questioning, when she confessed to the double homicide

Police say Egler had disagreements with her mother, about her gender identity, they also argued over the mother dating a 22 year old

Egler who has been charged with two counts of first-degree premeditated murder, is being held in juvenile detention, police however, said she could be charged as an adult

Trans teen Julia Grace Egler, 16, [photo], is accused of fatally shooting her mother Kelley McCollom and her mother’s boyfriend, Matthew Szejnrok, at home in Tampa, Florida on July 6

A transgender teenager charged with double-homicide in the deaths of her mother and the mother’s boyfriend police said, called in the crime in an attempt to misdirect the investigation.
Police in Tampa, Florida released the disingenuous audio of the 911 call made by Julia Grace Egler around midnight on July 16.
16-year-old Egler is accused fatally shooting her mother Kelley McCollom, 41, and her mother’s boyfriend, Matthew Szejnrok, 22, at the family’s home in Palm Bay, Florida, that Saturday night.
The transgender teen apparently tried to place the blame on an unidentified masked man that broke into her Palm Bay, Florida home.
On the just after midnight call Egler is heard crying hysterically as she told a dispatcher the masked man must have used a hammer to break the sliding glass back door.
Questioned further by the officer during the call, Julian changed her story stating,’I don’t think that the door was locked, but I don’t think he knew there was a hammer by the back window.
When the operator inquired whether it was her family’s hammer or the assailant brought a hammer of his own, Egler replied: ‘It was just the house hammer. It was just by the back [inaudible] ….’I think they grabbed it and broke in the window,’ Fox 35 reports.
She claimed she then grabbed her dogs and hid in her bedroom.
Releasing the 911 call audio, police said the transgender teenager shot her mother, then and stabbed her mom’s boyfriend when she ran out of bullets.
Mathew Szejnrok’s body was found in the bathroom where he had been pleading with Egler to stop, with several shell casings nearby, police said.

Kelley McCollom, [right] with her daughter Julia Grace Egler was shot in her Palm Bay, Florida home along with her boyfriend, by her transgender daughter Julia Grace Egler, [left], who then tried to put the blame for the grisly murders on an masked home invader

Egler apparently tried to place the blame on an unidentified masked man that broke into her Palm Bay, Florida home on July 6 and fatally shot her mother Kelley McCollom and her mother’s boyfriend, Matthew Szejnrok
She cried hysterically in the phone call just after midnight, as she told a dispatcher that the unknown assailant made ‘loud noises,’ and she believed he kicked down her mother’s bedroom door – but did not dare to enter her bedroom because he wasn’t looking for her and was deterred by her barking pit bulls, NJ Advance Media reports.
Eventually, Egler said she heard her mom and Szejnrok return home from buying a bed frame. After that she heard what sounded like five to six gunshots and screaming.
Blaming herself Egler sobbed as she told the dispatcher,’I couldn’t warn her – it’s all my fault’. The teenager claimed that she remained in her bedroom for about an hour before stepping out, only to encounter to a bloody scene.
She informed the dispatcher she didn’t want to let the dogs out of her bedroom ‘because I didn’t want them getting blood all over their paws.’
Egler in her story claimed she entered her mother’s bedroom, having noticed that it had been kicked in, basically to check on a box where her mother locked her valuables, including a gun in a holster. The holster was empty and ammo was missing, she said.
Asked to describe the man who broke into the home, Egler simply said, ‘Oh… it’s hard to remember.’

Matthew Szejnrok [left],and his girlfriend Kelley McCollom, [right], were murdered allegedly, by McCollom’s teenage daughter at home on Saturday night. His body was found in the bathroom where he had been pleading with Egler to stop, with several shell casings nearby, police said

The teenage suspect’s tale of hiding away during the crime spell quickly fell apart after responding officers arrived. Detectives noticed that there was broken glass on McCollum’s leg, and on top of Szejnrok’s phone, which suggests the glass was broken after the two were already killed.
They then found the .38-caliber revolver just outside Julia’s bedroom window, the bloodstained knife on the bathroom counter, and bloody footprints matching her shoes.
Police also said they found droplets of blood, leading from the front door to the bathroom – where Szejnrok’s body was found with several shell casings nearby. He had been pleading with Egler to stop, police said.
Furthermore, none of the many cameras around the outside of the house recorded footage of break in by an intruder.
Officers eventually brought Egler in for questioning, when she confessed to the double homicide. 

Detectives said there were many cameras around the house. None recorded footage of a breaking in. Instead they believe, Egler stole her mother’s gun, hid a knife hidden in her pockets and waited for the pair in the kitchen to arrive home about 10:30 pm ‘Welcome home,’ she told them, before she allegedly opened fire, shooting her mother several times

According to the charging documents the teen admitted that she that she stole her mother’s loaded gun and waited in the kitchen with it and a knife hidden in her pockets for them to arrive home about 10:30 pm.
‘Welcome home,’ she told them, before she allegedly opened fire on her mother with the .38 caliber revolver, shooting her several times until she was dead.
Police say Egler then turned the gun on Szejnrok as he fled to the bathroom and begged for his life, but she repeatedly shot him anyway.
When the gun ran out of bullets, she allegedly took out the kitchen knife and began viciously stabbing him on the bathroom floor.
Szejnrok, mortally wounded and in agony, ‘essentially asked [Julia] to take him out of his misery’, the affidavit read.
At that point, Egler walked back to her mother’s room, loaded another bullet into the revolver, and shot him in the head, police said in an affidavit.

Julia [left], transitioned from male to female as a young child, appearing as a girl on her ‘supportive’ mother’s social media pages dating back to 2015, at least. Recently however, the pair had disagreements on gender identity, and argued over Kelley, [right], dating a 22 year old 

Palm Bay Police Lieutenant Virginia Kilmer said mother and daughter had ‘many disagreements in the previous weeks.’
‘Egler cited long-standing conflicts with her mother, including disagreements related to her gender transition, as well as disapproval of her mother’s relationship with Szejnrok, as motives for the crime,’ he said.
She had transitioned transitioned from male to female many years earlier as a young child, appearing as a girl on McCollom’s social media pages from at least 2015.
Her posts appeared to be very supportive of her daughter’s gender identity, always calling her ‘my daughter’ and sharing sweet photos of them together.
Police are now trying to put all of the pieces together – and are specifically looking at past episodes in which McCollom was allegedly abused. 
One incident occurred with Egler’s biological father around 11 years ago, while the other involved Szejnrok in April 2024, Florida Today reports.

McCollum’s toyboy beau, Mathew Szejnrok, was arrested in April [photo], and charged with abusing McCollum, but prosecutors dismissed the charges, and he was allowed to return home to McCollom and Julia

Police at the time said he and McCollom were arguing in public when he repeatedly grabbed her. 
Prosecutors dismissed the charges, and he was allowed to return home to McCollom and Julia.
While the investigation is ongoing, Egler police said has already confessed her motivation as becoming frustrated with her mother after several arguments in the preceding weeks, as well as being unhappy that her Kelley was dating Szejnrok.
The teenage murder suspect who has been charged with two counts of first-degree premeditated murder, is being held in juvenile detention.
Police however, said she could be charged as an adult.