Dennis Nolan, the grandfather of homicide suspect Sarah Grace Patrick, spoke with NewsNation’s Banfield on Thursday evening, sharing particulars on his conversations with each Patrick and investigators in regards to the case following her arrest.

Kristin Brock, 41, and James Brock, 45, have been discovered shot lifeless within the residence again in February. 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 on Tuesday.

“Properly, it is laborious to make any judgement at this level. You already know, they must launch the proof, and I do not perceive what proof they’ve,” Nolan mentioned when requested whether or not he believes she’s harmless. “I believe most of it, from what I perceive, is circumstantial. And, you understand, she’s my granddaughter, I’ve to face behind her. She swears her innocence.”

Nolan mentioned he spoke with Patrick following her arrest, saying the teenager referred to as him “very upset.”

“She all the time seemed to me extra of as a father determine. She was begging for me to assist. And I defined to her, she, there’s nothing I can do at this level,” claimed Nolan. “She simply was begging, ‘Please, please assist me. Assist me get out of this mess.’ And I instructed her simply to do what they are saying and be cooperative, and we’ll do what we are able to.”

When requested whether or not he is spoken with investigators on the case, he mentioned he “talked to them at size” — whereas including, “they do not launch any data.”

“If they’d one thing concrete, they might have arrested her an entire lot sooner. I imply, why? I simply can’t think about her. I imply, she’s a candy younger woman. She’s all the time been a beautiful little woman. What can I say? I simply can’t think about her doing such a horrific factor, particularly to her mom. She and her mom have been very shut, they usually have been doing nice at the moment. That they had an amazing relationship.”

He later acknowledged that mother-daughter duos “all the time have their disagreements,” however mentioned there was “nothing critical” between the 2. He additionally alluded to Brock’s “unusual previous,” claiming he was a part of a “bike gang” and questioned whether or not the murders have been “James’ previous coming again to hang-out him.”

He claimed investigators instructed him “she’s the one one who might have executed it” — and, when he requested about what proof they’ve, claimed they gold him, “Properly, I can not let you know that, however I might simply say that she’s the one one who might have executed it.’”

Carroll County Sheriff’s Workplace spokesperson Ashley Hulsey, in the meantime, instructed Banfield that the teenager’s on-line presence was of curiosity to them. “Whenever you need to put up your life on-line, it turns into honest sport,” she mentioned, including extra arrests have been doable.

The investigation started on February 20 when the Carroll County Sheriff’s Workplace acquired that 911 name from a teen saying that her mom Kristin Brock, 41, and stepfather James Brock, 45, had been shot within the household’s residence, in accordance with WSB’s reporting on the time.

One heartbreaking twist within the story is the truth that it was Patrick’s youthful sister, 5 on the time of the murders, who first discovered the our bodies. Police on the time had decided this youthful daughter had been in the home on the time of the shootings, however was unaware it had occurred.

“Smallest daughter discovered them after which she got here and instructed Sarah and Sarah made the 911 name,” Hulsey mentioned in Tuesday’s press convention.

“From the very second the 911 name was acquired, a relentless investigation started,” mentioned Carroll County Sheriff’s Workplace spokesperson Ashley Hulsey in a press convention after the arrest of Sarah Grace Patrick, 17, the very teen who made that decision.

Now, Patrick is being charged as an grownup and dealing with two counts of homicide and two counts of aggravated assault for the deaths of her mom and stepfather.

Patrick was along with her organic father after they have been suggested by authorities that the investigation was pointing towards the teenager, per Legislation & Crime — and it was her father who helped her flip herself in Tuesday morning.

“We really feel assured that she is accountable for their murders,” Hulsey mentioned within the press convention later that afternoon. “She turned herself in as a result of we notified her that we had warrants for her arrest.”

On the identical time, Hulsey mentioned that the investigation is way from over and she or he’s not ruling out the potential for extra arrests as they are not sure if the alleged suspect carried out the crimes alone.

“Our staff has sifted via 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 Put up — a second investigators suspect may need been a ploy to cowl her tracks.

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.

Patrick was lively on TikTok after the deaths of her dad and mom 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.

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 put up from Could 17, per Legislation&Crime, which was ended with the phrase “Ought to prob delete later,” Patrick purportedly questions how somebody might shoot her dad and mom in textual content overlays.

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

“I really feel so residence sick and I miss them a lot I can not stand the very fact I can not see them anymore this sucks greater than something doable,” the message continued. “I am in a horror film that by no means ends.”

“And on prime of every little thing I nonetheless haven’t any solutions, im so confused on how somebody might’ve executed this and much more confused on why. Why them? Why that? Simply why. How might they.” She captioned this put up, “Please ship prayers for therapeutic,” per Atlanta NBC affiliate WXIA.

The primary put up mourning the losses got here on March 1, simply weeks after the Brocks have been shot and killed. Over that video put up 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 previous sister would discover them wrongfully shot lifeless in our residence and will not get to observe 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.