EXCLUSIVE 'Killer' teen Sarah Grace Patrick's funeral selfies and fake tears resurface as she's charged with double murder
To the public, Sarah Grace Patrick appeared to be a teenager shattered by tragedy after her mom Kristin, 41, and stepdad James Brock, 47, were mysteriously found shot dead in their Georgia home in February.
The high school student posted tributes, tearful selfies, and even pleas for justice – but never hinting that she might be the one behind the murders.
But her haunting digital trail was being viewed through an entirely different lens and on Tuesday she was arrested and charged with the double murders.
Police say Kristin and James were both shot dead as they slept in their home in Carrollton, 45 miles west of Atlanta on February 20.
Patrick, who was 16 at the time, was inside the house during the killings and called 911 after her then-five-year-old half-sister Jaley discovered the lifeless bodies.
There were no immediate suspects or leads, and the couple's death at first seemed like a mysterious tragedy that had left two young girls without a family.
For months, Patrick played the grieving daughter who was coping with an unimaginable loss, delivering a tearful eulogy at the funeral and sharing heartbreaking TikTok videos about her slain parents.
One TikTok from March shows a slideshow of images of her mother and stepfather, set to emotional music and accompanied by the text:
'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 they won't get to watch me graduate high school, see me walk down the aisle, or even say goodbye.'
In the caption, she wrote: 'I miss you guys, save a seat for me in heaven.'
She continued to share numerous videos about her grief, employing various trending TikTok formats for emotional effect.
In one, she appears distraught with mascara streaked down her cheeks. The overlay reads: 'Life's hard but at least I have my mom.'
The video later cuts to a final slide showing two urns and a framed photograph of Kristin and James Brock, with text overlay: 'Mom?'
Patrick also portrayed herself as heartbroken over her little sister's trauma from finding her parents' bullet-riddled bodies.
In one post, she wrote: 'I can't help but hate myself because I didn't wake up to find them before my 5yo sister had to find her parents like that'.
Another read: 'It hits me when I see my 5-year-old sister screaming for her mommy and daddy.'
Several of her videos took the form of emotional tributes praising her mother.
'I don't know if she ever realized… that the person I most wanted to be was her,' she wrote in one post with additional slides describing her mom as 'so kind and so loving.'
But perhaps most unsettling are the posts containing selfies of Patrick appearing distraught and in tears over her mom's death.
She shared a photo clutching her mother's clothes, seemingly crying into them, with the text: 'Her T-shirt [heart emoji].'
She shared one selfie of her sobbing in bed captioned: 'I just want my momma,' and another of herself in anguish, reading: 'wdym [what do you mean] I can't call my mom?'
In one haunting image, she appears to be choking back tears en route to the funeral, writing: 'This can't be real. Otw (on the way) to my parents' funeral.'
Since Patrick's arrest, true crime communities on social media have erupted, dissecting her content and questioning what could have possibly driven an angel-faced teen to allegedly murder her parents.
The story took an even stranger turn when a popular true crime content creator who posts under @Allegedly Reportedly and has over 120,000 followers, revealed that Patrick had reached out to her weeks before her arrest, asking for help getting coverage of the case.
The TikTokker shared screenshots of their exchange which showed Patrick had sent her a private message on the platform on June 3, telling her to 'search up Brock case.'
'They're my parents, and out of nowhere a random Thursday night in Feb someone came into 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,' Patrick wrote.
'I am in absolute shock right now,' the TikTokker wrote in a caption of the video on Wednesday.
'An arrest has been made in the case of James and Kristin Brock, whose lives were taken in February – the person arrested is their daughter, who previously asked me to cover their case?!'
In addition to posting videos of her grief online, Patrick apparently also worked behind the scenes to spread her story, issuing statements on her father's Facebook account and asking friends to share details of the incident on her behalf.
Last month, weeks before Patrick's arrest, family friend Kellie Brown took to TikTok to share that the teen reached out to her on June 22 asking her to share information about what happened that night with the public.
'Sarah has confirmed that she was awake the night of the incident and "heard nothing out of the normal". Those are her words,' Brown said in a June 24 video.
Popular true crime content creator known as 'Allegedly Reportedly' this week revealed that Patrick had reached out to her weeks before her arrest, asking for help getting coverage of the case
She added that Patrick said she had only heard her the alarm from her stepfather's heart machine - which would've been triggered by his death – 'going off throughout the night.'
Patrick's original account has since been deactivated, but the disturbing videos have resurfaced and gone viral after social media sleuths re-uploaded her content following the shocking news.
The videos are now flooded with comments questioning whether her posts were a manifestation of guilt or a calculated attempt to win sympathy.
'I wonder if she actually started to regret it or if it was all just a cover up,' one user wrote.'
'She wanted attention and sympathy for it!!!' another speculated.
Patrick is being charged as an adult on two counts of murder and two counts of aggravated assault after turning herself in to police on Tuesday accompanied by her father Doniel Patrick.
Authorities have not yet revealed a motive for the killings and say the investigation is ongoing and further arrests could be made.
Investigators from Carroll County Sheriff's Office have cited 'mountains of digital and physical evidence' that led to her arrest – including Patrick's emotional eulogy.
Video of her tribute at her mom and stepfather's funeral service was published by the Daily Mail after relatives of the victims shared the footage in disgust after her arrest.
Patrick, dressed in a demure, pale blue mini dress, can be seen taking to the lectern during the March 8 afternoon service at the Catalyst church in Carrollton, where the Brocks were very active members.
She paid glowing tributes to her mother and stepfather, thanking Brock 'for all the life lessons you taught me', and praising her mom as a 'beautiful kind soul with so much gratitude'.
She thanked her family, including her grandparents, a long list of siblings, and others for 'helping me get through my worst nightmare' and 'making such a big difference'.
Concluding her eulogy, she said: 'Jamey and all would thank you too. I love you guys and so did they, I'm sorry.'
During a press conference about her arrest this week, Carroll County communications director Ashley Hulsey confirmed her tribute at the funeral was a key piece of evidence.
Speaking to News Nation, Hulsey admitted the eulogy 'seemed odd' and noted that Patrick had ended her speech saying 'I'm sorry.'
'Was that, "I'm sorry because I may have done this" or is it, "I'm sorry because I was upset during this eulogy"? We may never know the answer to that, but that did stand out to me at the time,' she said.
Hulsey also confirmed investigators are aware of the teen's social media posts.
Sharing footage of the funeral remarks, James Brock's niece Krysten Dowda told Daily Mail that she immediately became suspicious of Patrick 'after the shock wore off', adding: 'The pieces just weren't making sense.'
'After their funeral, when I saw someone had recorded this, I immediately saved it because I knew one day everyone would get to see this for what it was,' she said.
'The feeling of being at a funeral to say goodbye to someone you loved and thinking to yourself, am I actually witnessing the person that murdered them, standing up here in front of everyone and fake crying about them?
'Does anyone else see this person doing a crying voice but never shed a single tear?'
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