A teen girl brutally killed her mom and stepdad in Georgia, leaving her five-year-old sister orphaned, according to police.
Sarah Grace Patrick, 17, was charged with the February shooting murders of her mother Sarah and stepfather James Brock in their home in Carrolton, 45 miles west of Atlanta.
She was 16 at the time of the murders and will be charged as an adult, as reported by 11 Alive.
Police spent months collecting evidence after the crime. It is unclear what specifically led to Patrick’s arrest on Tuesday, but Patrick’s tearful speech at her mother’s funeral was a piece of key evidence, per officials.
‘Mountains of evidence have gotten us here today,’ said Carroll County communications director Ashley Hulsey at a press conference announcing the arrest.
She added: ‘The pursuit of justice does not end today… It is very possible that because this remains an open and ongoing investigation that more arrests and charges could be made.’
Hulsey said a motive has yet to be determined, and it’s still unclear whether other family members were involved in the killings.
‘We don’t know what goes through the mind of a child who wants to harm their parents,’ the official said.
‘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.’
Patrick’s little sister was the first to find her parents dead in their bed, before Patrick called 911.
There were no signs of forced entry in the home and nothing had been taken.
Hulsey said: ‘A mother and a stepfather will never be able to raise their children and the little girl that was in the home, to me she’s probably the saddest victim in all of this.’
The official added that James Brock had been waiting on a heart transplant when he was killed.
For months after the killings, Patrick was posting about the murders on social media and begging for help finding the killer.
One of her TikToks from March, shows various images of her mom and stepfather alongside the words: ‘They don’t know it but a year from now me and my 5-year-old sister would find them wrongfully shot dead 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.’
In the posts caption, Patrick wrote: ‘I miss you guys, save a seat for me in heaven.’
Patrick turned herself into police, accompanied by her father, after she learned there was a warrant out for her arrest.
Police say they are still digging for more information on the case and more arrests are possible.