The 17-year-old Georgia girl accused of shooting her mother and stepfather dead can be seen delivering a tearful eulogy at their funeral service in chilling video obtained by the Daily Mail.
Sarah Grace Patrick, 17, was arrested and charged with murder on Tuesday – months after Kristin Brock, 41, and her husband James, 45, were found with fatal gunshot wounds at their home in Carrollton, 45 miles west of Atlanta, on February 20.
The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the high school student, escorted by her father, turned herself in to police this week after a warrant was issued for her arrest.
Patrick, who was 16 at the time of the slayings, is facing two counts of murder and two counts of aggravated assault, and has been charged as an adult.
Authorities said ‘mountains of physical and digital evidence’ led to Patrick being charged – including her emotional speech at her parents’ funeral.
Patrick’s apparent crocodile-tear-filled tribute can now be exclusively shown by Daily Mail, after relatives of the victims shared the footage in disgust after her arrest.
Social media posts have also resurfaced showing the baby-faced teen had allegedly tried to cover up her alleged crimes by sharing her grief in a series of TikToks and even appealing to true crime sleuths online for help.
Speaking exclusively to Daily Mail, James Brock’s niece, Krysten Dowda, said she was ‘not surprised’ when Patrick was arrested, because ‘she fake cried at the funeral.’
Sarah Grace Patrick, 17, delivered a tearful eulogy at a church service in Georgia for her mother Kristin and stepfather James Brock, only to be charged with their murders months later
James and Kristin Brock were found dead in their bed at their home in Carrollton, Georgia, on February 20, but no arrests had been made until Tuesday, when Patrick was charged with their murders
Dowda said suspicions began to arise when Patrick started sharing details about the tragic incident on social media.
The red-haired teenager reportedly told a friend of the Brocks that she didn’t hear anything unusual the night of the murders besides the alarm from her stepdad’s heart machine which would have been triggered by his death.
‘She reached out to everyone in her life and on the internet and her story changed,’ Dowda told Daily Mail.
‘The main thing…how do you not hear multiple gunshots in a small house?’
The 34-year-old married mother-of-two from Austell, Georgia, said she immediately became suspicious of Patrick ‘after the shock wore off’, adding: ‘The pieces just weren’t making sense.’
Sharing footage of the teen’s eulogy, Dowda added: ‘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.
‘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?’
In the footage, Patrick, dressed in a demure, pale blue mini dress, is seen taking to the lectern during the March 8 afternoon service at the Catalyst church in Carrollton, where the Brocks were very active members.
Footage of the funeral service shows Patrick wiping tears from her face as she memorialized her mom and step dad at the pulpit of at Catalyst church in Carrollton, where the Brocks had been worshippers
She shared her grief publicly on social media, posting a series of TikToks about her slain mother and father
Standing yards from a large photograph of her mother and stepfather, Patrick told mourners: ‘For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Sarah, and I am Kristen Brock’s daughter and James Brock’s stepdaughter.’
Her voice appeared to crack with emotion as she told the congregation: ‘This isn’t easy…I am really happy I get to do this but just bear with me because I stutter a lot.
‘I just wanted to say goodbye to my mom and James since we never got the chance to.’
Addressing her mother and stepfather directly, she added: ‘I was so used to you guys always being here that I…never would have thought that y’all would not be here and I didn’t have a single clue about how much I needed y’all until now.’
Patrick 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’.
Referring to her stepfather’s congestive heart failure, she said: ‘Your heart will be finally healed in heaven and none of y’all will be in any pain anymore.
‘Although that gives me so much comfort, your life was not supposed to end there.’
Turning to her mother, she said: ‘Everything we went through does not define the kind of person or the kind of mother you were.
Authorities say the couple’s six-year-old daughter was the first to find her parents dead in their bed, before she alerted older sister Sarah, who was in the home that night, and called 911
The couple was killed while they slept in their home in Carrollton, 45 miles west of Atlanta, on February 20
‘You were a beautiful kind soul with so much gratitude and… you taught me so many life lessons.’
Patrick went on to read from a May 2018 letter her mother wrote to Brock, which she said made her cry on first reading and gave her ‘chilled bones’.
‘Every single time I read it, it puts me at a lot of peace. So I thought I’d share it,’ she went on.
Reading from her slain mother’s letter, she recited: ‘Deuteronomy 6:5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your strength.’
Patrick made garbled references to finding ‘peace’ before continuing her mother’s missive: ‘You can’t always choose the music that life plays…but you can choose how to dance to it. She was always dancing to her own beat, LOL’.
In a seemingly patronizing aside, Patrick said of her mother’s letter ‘and keep in mind she wrote that herself,’ before laughing at her own joke.
Resuming her mother’s hopeful letter, she went on: ‘Eventually all the pieces fall into place, but until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moment and know that everything happens for a reason.
‘I can choose to let it define me, confine me, outshine or I can choose to move on and leave it behind me.
‘Always, Kristen Brock.’
Patrick appeared to urge mourners to remember her mother and stepfather ‘for who they were and not what happened to them and be happy for the time we got to spend together and not be sad about the time that we don’t’.
Her voice appeared to wobble with emotion as she said of her parents: ‘I may always and will always be her sunshine and she will always be my star from up above.
‘I know at nighttime I can go and look at momma and Jamey in the sky, and gladly they will save me a seat in heaven like they saved a seat for me in this very church.
‘Although there’s nothing we can do to bring them back, we still have control over how we treat people with us today.’
In an apparent show of her grief, she urged listeners never to take moments with loved ones for granted, adding: ‘When someone tries to tell you anything, no matter how unimportant it could be, just listen because you never know when it’s somebody’s time to go.
‘You can say goodnight and wake up a few hours just to find out they aren’t there, despite their joy and their love. So just listen and never take a hug or anyone or anything for granted.’
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’.
Several of her videos took the form of emotional tributes praising her mother
She portrayed herself as heartbroken over her mom’s loss in various TikToks, including one in which she spoke about the ‘last time’ she spoke to her
Concluding her eulogy, she said: ‘Jamey and all would thank you too. I love you guys and so did they, I’m sorry.’
Dowda said at the funeral, Patrick, who she had known as ‘very sweet, soft spoken and polite’, said ‘she was sorry I lost Jamey’.
Looking back on at her behavior at the funeral, she added: ‘[I was] so mad, I didn’t really even acknowledge her after just watching her fake cry in front of everyone.
‘I left the funeral immediately after.’
Dowda said she is speaking out ‘because people want to bully us [saying] she’s “just a little girl” and I want to make clear a monster can be a little girl in a dress’.
Patrick’s father Doniel Patrick, who was with her when she surrendered to cops took to Facebook to defend his daughter.
‘I’ll always be in your corner,’ he said.
He added: ‘Never dobt your place in this world. You were sent here with purpose, wrapped in grace and born to shine in ways only your soul knows how.’
Several social media true crime groups have sprung up since Patrick’s arrest, with the rumor mill going into overdrive over why an angel-faced teenager would allegedly kill her mother and stepfather.
Dowda dismissed social media rumors that her uncle may have been ‘abusive’ towards Sarah, saying: ‘People saying Jamey could have been the monster. I’m here to say she’s the only monster in this scenario.
‘Absolutely hell no, do I believe there was any abuse. His kids were his life. His step kids just the same as his blood.’
Brock’s niece Krysten Dowda shared intimate family photos of her with her Uncle ‘Jamey’ including him attending her 2009 graduation (left) and him cradling her first child, Braxton, on the day he was born in 2011
Brock had three adult sons from previous relationships, while Kristin had Patrick and a son from her prior relationship. The couple had one child together, six-year-old Jaley.
But on social media, Brock appeared to dote on both his little girl and his stepdaughter in gushing Facebook posts.
Sharing a photo of Patrick at school in June 2024, he wrote: ‘She’s all grown up, love u Sarah.’
In another that same month, he shared a post with text reading: ‘Not to toot my own horn but my daughter is gorgeous.’
‘Both of em Sarah Grace and Jaley Anne,’ he added.
He also shared a series of sweet photos of the two girls on National Daughter’s Day in September.
Dowda said she was ‘super close’ with her uncle, saying they grew up together in the same house and lived together as adults briefly.
‘Jamey was so sweet, so kind and hilarious. He had a larger-than-life personality.
Brock had three adult sons from previous relationships, while Kristin had Patrick and a son from her prior relationship. The couple had one child together, six-year-old Jaley
Brock appeared to dote on both his little girl and his stepdaughter in gushing Facebook posts and even shared this photo of Patrick on National Daughters Day last September
‘He was never like an uncle, he was always a best friend,’ she added.
She shared with Daily Mail sweet pictures of her with Uncle ‘Jamey,’ including him attending her 2009 graduation and cradling her first child, Braxton, on the day he was born, October 1, 2011.
Sharing a post by Carrol Count Sheriff’s Office about Patrick’s arrest, Dowda said: ‘I sat front row at their funerals as this little b***h stood up in front of everyone and faked cried about how much she missed Jamey and Kristen.
‘So now everyone can get a front row seat to her mugshot for MURDERING her own mother and stepfather. I saw right through you. Enjoy prison!’
Leading the police press conference, Carroll County communications director Ashley Hulsey said: ‘Mountains of evidence have gotten us here today.
‘The pursuit of justice does not end today… It is very possible that because this remains an open and ongoing investigation that more arrests and charges could be made.’
Hulsey said a motive has yet to be determined, and it’s still unclear whether other family members were involved in the killings.
‘We don’t know what goes through the mind of a child who wants to harm their parents,’ the official said.
‘She’s 17. She’s kind of been out on her own. She’s lived with different family members and moved all over the place.’
Patrick’s little half-sister was the first to find her parents dead in their bed, before she alerted Patrick, who was in the home that night, and called 911.
There were no signs of forced entry in the home and nothing had been taken.
Patrick was living with her mother and stepfather at the time of the killings, but since then lived with various other relatives, Hulsey said.
Hulsey said: ‘A mother and a stepfather will never be able to raise their children and the little girl that was in the home. To me she’s probably the saddest victim in all of this.’
Police say they are still digging for more information on the case and more arrests are possible.
