Prosecutors said the teenager lied in wait in an apparent ambush designed to shoot and kill her stepfather after killing her mother.

The first day of Carly Gregg’s trial began Monday, with opening statements and an emotional 9-1-1 call being played for the jury. The Rankin County teen is accused of killing her mother, a teacher at Northwest Rankin High School,

Carly Gregg was 14 when she fatally shot her mother and attempted to kill her stepfather inside the family's Brandon, Miss., home

On the day of the shooting, Clark said Gregg was “grumpy and irritable” and couldn’t focus in class at Northwest Rankin High School, where her mother, Ashley Smylie, was a math teacher, according to The Clarion-Ledger. Clark said the teenager claimed her memory “went blank” that day after she let out her dog in the backyard.

Carly Gregg was sentenced to life in prison Friday for fatally shooting her mother and attempting to murder her stepfather. Gregg, who was 14 at the time of the offenses, was also sentenced to serve 10 years in prison for tampering with evidence.

Mississippi teen Carly Gregg was sentenced to life in prison in September 2024, six months after the murder of her mother, Ashley Smylie, and the attempted murder of her stepfather, Heath Smylie. After Carly’s trial,