A now 17-year-old girl who allegedly fatally shot her mother and stepfather in Georgia in February has turned herself in to police.
It was Sarah Grace Patrick’s stepsister, then a 5-year-old, who found her parents unresponsive in their home.
In the weeks and months following the crime, and as investigators searched for clues, Patrick made a series of grieving social media videos, adding fuel to the alleged cover-up.
Highlights
- Police in Georgia say they have a suspect in custody for the fatal shooting of Kristin and James Brock.
- Sarah Grace Patrick,17, has turned herself in.
- Patrick's TikTok account is being deemed "creepy" after sharing multiple videos about the crime.
Sarah Grace Patrick’s 5-year-old stepsister found her parents deceased in their home
Image credits: James Brock / Facebook
Image credits: James Brock / Facebook
According to reports, Sarah Grace Patrick was 16 at the time of the alleged shooting of 41-year-old Kristin Brock and 45-year-old James Brock. Her stepsister was 5.
On the night of February 20, 2025, police say Patrick allegedly fatally shot her parents while they were in their bedroom in their house in Carrollton, Georgia.
The 5-year-old discovered her slain parents and alerted Patrick, who called 911.
“Someone came in my house”: Patrick reaches out to true crime websites, pleading for help
Image credits: Carroll County Sheriff's Office
Immediately following the shooting, Patrick began denying any involvement.
She posted sorrowful messages for her mother on social media and gave an impassioned memorial during their funeral.
According to media reports, during the funeral, Patrick said of her mother and stepfather: “There’s nothing we can do to bring them back, we still have control over how we treat people.”
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In other posts, we see an old video of her mother in a toy store, edited together with old clips of her stepfather.
The video is captioned: “They don’t know it but a year from now, me and my five-year-old sister would find them wrongfully shot d*ad in our home and won’t get to watch me graduate high school, see me walk down the aisle and couldn’t even say goodbye.”
Image credits: Kristin Brock / Facebook
According to the True Crime Mama website, Patrick reached out in a text saying: “They’re my parents, and out of no where a random Thursday night in Feb someone came in my house with me and my 5 year old sister and shot my parents brutally leaving them for me and my little sister to wake up to.”
She continued: “I feel like it’s important to shine light on it considering it’s still a [sic] open case.”
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Still other social media posts show Patrick with a mascara-stained face as she tearfully asks the public for “prayers” and a break for healing.
On Mother’s Day this year, Patrick posted pictures of herself as a young girl together with her mother with the caption “.. my ultimate inspiration comes from my best friend.”
“Mountains of evidence”: A police spokesperson said it became increasingly clear that Patrick was their suspect
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During a press conference to announce Patrick’s arrest, Ashley Hulsey, a spokesperson for the Carroll County Sheriff's Office in Georgia, explained that Patrick turned herself in after being made aware that there was an arrest warrant out for her.
Media reports that she was driven to the police station by her birth father.
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Hulsey explained that from the moment the incident took place, everyone was a suspect.
But after several months of investigation, Hulsey said, it became clear that Patrick was the main suspect due to so much overwhelming evidence.
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“As the investigation continued, and everything ebbs and flows, and as I said in the press release, mountains of evidence has gotten us through here today, lots of processing, lots of work with our law enforcement partners to get us where we are today that homed in on her as the suspect,” Hulsey told reporters.
Police are looking for a motive as to why a 17-year-old would take her parents' lives
As to a motive on why Patrick took the lives of 41-year-old Kristin Brock and 45-year-old James Brock, “We are still working with her diligently,” Hulsey said.
When asked about investigations into other family members who may have aided or abetted Patrick, she said that “everybody we talked to through the course of the investigation who are family members, have been nothing but cooperative.”
Image credits: Sarah Grace Patrick / Facebook
Hulsey said, “We don’t know what goes through the mind of a child who wants to harm their parents.” She continued: “She’s 17. She’s kind of been out on her own. She’s lived with different family members and moved all over the place.”
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Hulsey also discussed James’ ongoing health conditions: “According to his family, he had a lot of heart trouble. I believe he may have been waiting on a heart transplant at some point,” Hulsey said.
The spokesperson said that the biggest ‘victim’ was the 6-year-old child who won’t see her parents again.
“To me, she is probably the saddest victim in all this,” said Ashley Hulsey, a spokesperson for the Carroll County Sheriff's Office.
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Media say the 6-year-old and 17-year-old Patrick aren’t the only children in the family.
Reports from WBS TV say the couple had a blended family with a total of seven children between the two of them.
One of whom is now behind bars.
Netizens speculate about what else was going on that might have driven the teen to take her parents’ lives
