Mississippi Teen accused of shooting her mom in face breaks down in tears watching video of police discover body

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Carly Madison Gregg, 15, is charged with murdering her mother and shooting her stepfather. YouTube / CourtTV

During the second day of testimony, a Mississippi teen accused of shooting her mother in the face broke down in tears while watching the video of police discovering the body.

Carly Gregg, who was 14 at the time of the murder, shot her mother, Ashley Smylie, before allegedly shooting her stepfather, Heath Smylie.

Smylie took the witness stand on Tuesday to explain what transpired on March 19.

"They loved each other so much. Just everything she did she planned out for Carly and around Carly," he said.

He told the court that Gregg, now 15, suffered from depression on occasion and had been seeing a therapist.

Prosecutor Kathryn Newman pressed Smylie to describe what happened upon entering the home on the day of the shooting.

"Everything seemed pretty normal. I came on in, and when I opened the door to the kitchen there, a gun went off in my face before the door—I don't know—was 3 or 4 inches wide."

"Everything went kind of fast from then. It's a blur," he added.

He then recalled the gun going off twice after that, but his hand was on the weapon following the first shot, according to WAPT.

Gregg shot him from about a foot away and grazed his shoulder with one of the bullets.

"She was screaming out of her mind, scared," he continued.

"Like she had seen a demon or something."

Smylie was then able to take the gun away from Gregg but said she fled so quickly he couldn't catch her.

The stepfather stated that it was very evident to him that something was very off with Carly.

He said his wife kept the.357 Magnum on her side of the bed in a cubby and that it had been there for years.

Two more witnesses were called to the stand by prosecutors.

Rankin County Circuit Court Judge Dewey Arthur forbade video and audio recording of the testimony due to their age.

"She (Gregg) said, 'Have you ever seen a dead body? Does it make you squeamish?' Then she was like, 'My mom's in there,' and I peeked my head in the door," the witness said.

"(Ashley Smylie) had her arms crossed and a towel over her head."

The second witness was a 17-year-old high school senior who said Gregg had used marijuana and "magic" mushrooms.

"I believe she's done cocaine once," the witness revealed.

The 911 call was played for the jury in which a crying and hysterical Heath Smylie told the dispatcher that his stepdaughter tried to kill him after she fatally shot her mother.

Gregg reportedly became emotional when the prosecution played the body camera video from the first Rankin County deputy to arrive at the scene.

The deputy said Gregg ran from the scene after the shooting, but she was later captured.

Gregg is being charged as an adult. Should she be convicted, she faces 20 years to life in prison.

The trial is expected to last about a week.

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