Mississippi girl, 15, filmed ‘murdering’ her mother at family’s home claims she does not remember shooting her dead

Carly Gregg, 15, is fighting murder charges with an insanity defense after she shot her mother Ashley Smylie dead and attempted to kill her stepfather in their Mississippi home back on March 19

Teen claimed that her memory went blank after she let the dogs out on the day

Her psychiatrist Dr Andrew Clark testified that he ‘believes Gregg ‘blacked out’ for up to 90 minutes on the day of the shooting’

Ashley Smylie had confronted her daughter about the teen’s marijuana use on the way home from school the day she was killed

Teen who had been been prescribed mood disorders medications allegedly used marijuana up until at least the day prior to the killing

Gregg turned down a deal with the prosecution that would have seen her serve 40 years, and now faces 20 years to life in prison, if convicted

Carly Gregg, [photo], 15, on trial as an adult for murder and attempted murder is claiming diminished capacity with an insanity defense. In March the teen shot her mother Ashley Smylie dead and attempted to kill her stepfather in their Mississippi home 

A teen girl who killed her mother says she does not remember shooting her dead in their home, a court has heard.
Carly Gregg, now 15-year-old was just 14 when she allegedly shot her mom inside their home on March 19.
The teen and her legal team have deployed an insanity defense as she is tried for murdering her mother Ashley Smylie and attempting to kill her stepfather in their Mississippi home.
Gregg was in the middle of a mental health crisis and does not remember shooting her math teacher mother, psychiatrist Andrew Clark said as he testified in the teen’s defense Wednesday.
Dr Clark said he believes Gregg ‘blacked out’ for up to 90 minutes on the day of the shooting, as she claimed that her memory went blank after she let the dogs out.
The court heard that Gregg had used marijuana up until at least the day prior to the alleged incident. She had also been prescribed Lexapro and Zoloft – both medications for mood disorders. 

Math teacher Ashley Smylie [photo], confronted her teen daughter about the latter’s marijuana use on the way home from school the day she was killed, the court heard

After shooting her mom dead Carly Gregg ambushed her stepdad Heath Smylie, photo], after using her mother’s phone to send a text, requesting that he should come home. She shot Smylie in the shoulder but he managed to wrestle the gun from her before she fled

Gregg reportedly told the psychiatrist that she’d had ‘auditory hallucinations’ for years prior to the killing, but the voices in her head had never ‘commanded’ her to do anything. 
‘She was having mood issues, eating disorder issues, cutting herself, hearing voices and sleeping difficulty all leading up to January of 2024,’ Dr Clark told the court. 
Smylie had confronted the teen about her marijuana use on the way home from school the day she was killed, Dr Clark said.
According to Dr Clark, the teen had begun smoking marijuana about six weeks before she shot her 40-year-old mother dead. She had reportedly also been struggling with new medications.
‘And then, her mother finds out she’s smoking marijuana,’ Dr Clark said. ‘For Carly, in particular, she so cared about her mother’s approval, so for her, this was a crisis.’

Psychiatrist, Dr Andrew Clark, [photo] in his testimony believes Gregg ‘blacked out’ for up to 90 minutes on the day of the shooting, as she claimed that her memory went blank after she let the dogs out

Home camera footage played in court shows Carly Gregg casually wandering around the kitchen, going off frame to shoot her mother, then return to text and play games on her phone

The teen had a ‘close, yet complicated relationship’ with her mother and a loving bond with her stepfather, per Dr Clark. Gregg’s relationship with her biological father, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, was more problematic.
A surveillance camera footage from the family’s home recorded on the day, played in court.
It shows Carly Gregg casually walking around the kitchen at home, playing on her mobile phone and texting a friend just moments after shots were fired.

In the video, Gregg walked into the kitchen wearing a blue t-shirt and paced up and down the corridor, disappearing off camera briefly before returning, holding something behind her back, and peering into the kitchen.
She walked off camera again in the opposite direction moments before three gunshots rang out. After the first shot, a woman was heard screaming, and then the room fell silent.
Moments later, Gregg was again seen camera, taking a seat on a stool near the kitchen bench and texting on her phone as her two dogs watched on.
Gregg mother Ashley Smylie, it turned out had been shot in the face, killing her. 

After shooting her mother and injuring her dad, 14-year-old Carly Gregg fled the scene but was apprehended shortly after by cops on a side road

Prosecutors allege that after shooting her mother dead, Gregg then lured her stepfather home. Using her Ashley’s cellphone, Carly sent a text to her stepfather Heath Smylie in an effort to lure him home.
A text message read: ‘When will you be home honey?’
Prosecutors have also alleged that Gregg texted one of her own friends, B.W., to come over to the house claiming that there was an “emergency.”
Once the friend arrived, Gregg allegedly asked her “if she had ever seen a dead body before” before leading the witness to the victim’s body and saying her stepfather was next.
When Heath Smylie returned home, he walked into an ambush. Police allege Gregg shot him, hitting him once in the shoulder. Heath wrestled the gun from his stepdaughter before she could shoot him again. The teenager then fled the scene. 
Footage from the garage shows teen in full flight after she lost the struggle for the weapon to her injured stepdad.
Gregg is on trial as an adult. Earlier she turned down a deal with the prosecution that would have seen her serve 40  years in prison. She now faces 20 years to life in prison, if convicted.