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(NewsNation) — A Georgia teen who delivered a tearful eulogy for her murdered parent and stepfather earlier this twelvemonth is present charged successful their shooting deaths aft investigators scrutinized her societal media posts, according to a constabulary spokesperson who casts uncertainty connected the girl’s show of mourning.
Sarah Grace Patrick, 17, has been charged with 2 counts of execution and 2 counts of aggravated battle successful the Feb. 20 slayings of 45-year-old James Brock and 41-year-old Kristin Brock, the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office says. Patrick called 911 aft the couple’s 5-year-old girl discovered their bullet-riddled bodies successful their home.
Patrick gave an affectional eulogy astatine their funerals, successful summation to posting astir her grief connected societal media, but Ashley Hulsey of the sheriff’s bureau suggested to "Banfield" connected Thursday that appearances tin beryllium deceiving.
“I can’t archer you if she had existent tears. I wasn’t determination to spot it successful person,” she said of the eulogy, which was shared online. “But it seemed odd. It was much similar a speech, and astatine the extremity she said, ‘I’m sorry.’
“Was that, ‘I’m atrocious due to the fact that I whitethorn person done this,’ oregon is it, ‘I’m atrocious due to the fact that I was upset during this eulogy’? We whitethorn ne'er cognize the reply to that, but that did basal retired to maine astatine the time.”
Husley declined to connection details astir the constabulary probe but confirmed that Patrick’s integer footprint has been of involvement to investigators, adding, “When you privation to station your beingness online, it becomes just game.” Hulsey besides said much arrests are imaginable successful the case.
Patrick had been cooperating with police, astatine slightest until she was arrested, said Hulsey, who noted the teen has a nationalist defender to correspond her.
Meanwhile, Patrick’s grandfather, Dennis Nolan — Kristin Brock’s begetter — is lasting down the girl, who, helium said, “swears her innocence." He said helium has yet to spot the purported upland of grounds that authorities person compiled.
“If they had thing concrete, they would person arrested her a full batch sooner,” Nolan told NewsNation analogous Alex Caprariello.
He said Patrick and his girl had a “great relationship” and added that James Brock had a transgression past that whitethorn person played a portion successful his death.
“I reflected that to the detectives aboriginal on,” Nolan said.
