Sarah Patrick, 17, was lively on TikTok after the deaths of her mother and father up till simply days earlier than her arrest, in accordance with regulation enforcement, who confirmed to Legislation&Order that the since-removed TikTok account @sgrace04282 belonged to the teenager.

Police had been first alerted to the deaths again on February 20, when Patrick known as 911 to say that they’d been shot. After her 5-year-old sister discovered the our bodies, the younger lady sought out her older sister to inform her — unaware that she was the alleged shooter.

Kristin Brock, 41, and James Brock, 45, had been discovered shot lifeless within the residence. 5 months later and after a prolonged and concerned investigation, police contacted Patrick, who was staying along with her organic father, and instructed her they’d a warrant for her arrest. She then turned herself in.

Within the months between the shootings and her arrest, Patrick appeared to speak about their deaths on social media with some regularity. In a single publish from Might 17, per Legislation&Crime, which was ended with the phrase “Ought to prob delete later,” Patrick purportedly questions how somebody might shoot her mother and father in textual content overlays.

The TikTok featured a photograph collage publish of pics together with each the Brocks and her youthful sister, per Legislation&Crime. In a textual content overlay, Patrick purportedly wrote, “Should you requested me about my mother and step dad, I would say I miss them a lot.”

“I really feel so residence sick and I miss them a lot I am unable to stand the actual fact I am unable to see them anymore this sucks greater than something potential,” the message continued. “I am in a horror film that by no means ends.”

“And on prime of the whole lot I nonetheless don’t have any solutions, im so confused on how somebody might’ve finished this and much more confused on why. Why them? Why that? Simply why. How might they.” She captioned this publish, “Please ship prayers for therapeutic,” per Atlanta NBC affiliate WXIA.

The primary publish mourning the losses got here on March 1, simply weeks after the Brocks had been shot and killed. Over that video publish of the couple earlier than their deaths, the then-16-year-old Patrick purportedly wrote, “They do not know it however a yr from now me and my 5 yr outdated sister would discover them wrongfully shot lifeless in our residence and will not get to look at me graduate highschool, see me stroll down the isle, and could not even say goodbye.”

There have been reportedly many movies in that five-month span between the Brocks’ deaths and Patrick’s arrest for his or her murders, together with many with Patrick sobbing and lamenting their absences in her life.

The final video posted to the web page got here on June 30, per Legislation&Crime, and is a purported video of Patrick on a seaside that she captioned, “Take me again to the seaside rn.”

In a press convention after Patrick’s arrest, Carroll County Sheriff’s Workplace spokesperson Ashley Hulsey instructed reporters, “We really feel assured that she is chargeable for their murders.”

On the similar time, Hulsey mentioned that the investigation is much from over and he or she’s not ruling out the potential for extra arrests as they don’t seem to be sure if the alleged suspect carried out the crimes alone.

“Our workforce has sifted by mountains of bodily and digital proof and collaborated with the FBI and GBI crime lab,” she mentioned, which included the teenager’s tearful speech at her mom’s funeral, as famous by The New York Submit — a second investigators suspect might need been a ploy to cowl her tracks.

“We do not know what goes by the thoughts of a kid who needs to hurt their mother and father,” Hulsey added. “She’s 17. She’s sort of been out on her personal. She’s lived with completely different members of the family and moved far and wide.”

When requested if Patrick had tried to hide what occurred in February, Hulsey famous, “Contemplating that she did not simply instantly inform us what occurred, sure. However who is aware of what is going on on in a teenager’s thoughts like that.”

As a result of their suspected shooter was so near the victims, Hulsey mentioned that it took 5 months of investigating for police to really feel assured sufficient they’d this proper to maneuver towards warrants. They wished to be as sure as potential they arrest the suitable particular person.

“It is very potential others are concerned as properly,” she instructed reporters. “We’re nonetheless working along with her diligently, our investigators have been talking along with her.” Police have additionally not but been in a position to decide a motive for the shootings.

Although there have been no indicators of pressured entry on the time, one door was barely ajar and the actual fact police had been unable to search out the homicide weapon led them to rapidly rule out suicide.

The largest takeaway for Hulsey, although, is “{that a} mom and stepfather won’t ever have the ability to increase their youngsters and the little lady that was within the residence.”

The couple is survived by their seven youngsters, who had been mixed right into a blended household on the time of their deaths.

If convicted, Patrick faces as much as life in jail with out the potential for parole.