Georgia Teen Provides Eulogy at Dad and mom’ Funeral Months Earlier than Being Charged with Homicide

In a video, Sarah Grace Patrick — who’s been charged with homicide in reference to the February 2025 shootings of her mom, Kristin Brock, 41, and stepfather James Brock, 45, — delivered an emotional speech at their funeral, which, in hindsight, is chilling.

“For these of you who have no idea me, my identify is Sarah, and I’m Kristin Brock’s daughter and James Brock’s stepdaughter,” Patrick started in her speech, showing to get choked up.

The teenager — who was sporting a light-weight blue gown — went on, “I simply wished to say goodbye to my mother and James since we by no means received the prospect to.”

“I used to be so used to you guys all the time being right here to the purpose that I by no means as soon as thought to think about y’all not being right here,” Patrick continued via tears. “And that I [don’t] have a single clue at how a lot I wanted y’all until now.”

She then addressed her late stepfather in her speech.

“For James, thanks for all of the life classes you taught me and for being the most effective bonus dad ever,” Patrick stated. “Your coronary heart will lastly be healed in heaven, and neither of y’all will probably be in any ache anymore. Though that offers me a lot consolation, your combat was not supposed to finish there.”

As for her mother, Patrick stated, “Every little thing we went via doesn’t outline what sort of individual or what sort of mom you have been. You have been a stupendous, form soul with a lot gratitude, and so gosh dang sturdy.”

The teenager recited a letter that her mom allegedly wrote to her stepfather, saying it brings her “peace” and “closure.”

“I wish to bear in mind them for who they have been and never what occurred to them and be completely happy for the time we received to spend collectively and never unhappy concerning the time that we do not,” she continued.

“I could all the time and can all the time be her sunshine, however she’s going to all the time be my star from up above,” Patrick added of her mom. “And I do know at night time time I can go and take a look at Mama and Jamie within the sky, and gladly they are going to save me a seat in heaven like they saved for you. I am sorry …”

“Though there’s nothing we are able to do to deliver them again, we nonetheless have management over how we deal with individuals with us right this moment,” she stated, earlier than concluding her tearful eulogy by thanking her family and friends for serving to her “get via my worst nightmare.”

Per the video, she ended the speech with, “I am sorry,” earlier than stepping means from the rostrum.

The footage was allegedly recorded by a funeral visitor, and saved by James’ niece, Krysten Dowda, who posted the clip on her Fb, and spoke to the Day by day Mail. In response to The Solar, the funeral occurred on the Catalyst Church in Carollton, Georgia.

Alongside the video, Dowda slammed Patrick in her Fb submit, calling the teenager a “monster.”

“After their funeral, once I noticed somebody had recorded this, I instantly saved it as a result of I knew in the future everybody would get to see this for what it was,” she wrote.

“The sensation of being at a funeral to say goodbye to somebody you liked, and pondering to your self ‘am I truly witnessing the individual that murdered them, standing up right here in entrance of everybody and faux crying about them? Does anybody else see this individual doing a crying voice however by no means shed a single tear?'” she continued.

“THIS is what a monster appears to be like like,” she added. “Monsters DO come within the type of candy wanting ladies in attire typically. And by chance on this case, the monster will get to commerce her gown for a jumpsuit and handcuffs.”

Whereas talking with the Day by day Mail, Dowda claimed Patrick “faux cried on the funeral.”

“The primary factor… how do you not hear a number of gunshots in a small home?” she requested.

Carroll County Sheriff’s Workplace spokesperson Ashley Hulsey, in the meantime, referenced Patrick’s eulogy in an interview with NewsNation following the teenager’s arrest earlier this week, and expressed doubt about her obvious emotion.

“I am unable to inform you if she had actual tears. I wasn’t there to see it in individual,” Hulsey stated. “However it appeared odd. It was extra like a speech, and on the finish she stated, ‘I am sorry.'”

“Was that, ‘I’m sorry as a result of I could have finished this,’ or is it, ‘I am sorry as a result of I used to be upset throughout this eulogy’?” she added. “We could by no means know the reply to that, however that did stand out to me on the time.”

Kristin Brock and James Brock have been discovered shot useless 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 that they had a warrant for her arrest. She then turned herself in on Tuesday.

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

The investigation started on February 20 when the Carroll County Sheriff’s Workplace acquired that 911 name from a teen saying that her mom and stepfather had been shot within the household’s residence, in line 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 stated a press convention on Tuesday.

“From the very second the 911 name was acquired, a relentless investigation started,” she added.

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

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

The couple is survived by their seven kids, 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 of parole.

Patrick’s grandfather, Dennis Nolan, spoke with NewsNation’s Banfield on Thursday night time, sharing particulars on his conversations with each Patrick and investigators concerning the case following her arrest.

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

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

“She all the time appeared 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 stated he “talked to them at size” — whereas including, “they do not launch any info.”

“If that they had one thing concrete, they might have arrested her an entire lot sooner. I imply, why? I simply cannot 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 cannot think about her doing such a horrific factor, particularly to her mom. She and her mom have been very shut, and so they have been doing nice at the moment. They’d an amazing relationship.”

He later acknowledged that mother-daughter duos “all the time have their disagreements,” however stated 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 may have finished it” — and, when he requested about what proof they’ve, claimed they gold him, “Nicely, I am unable to inform you that, however I may simply say that she’s the one one who may have finished it.'”

Hulsey, in the meantime, instructed Banfield that the teenager’s on-line presence was of curiosity to them. “If you wish to submit your life on-line, it turns into truthful sport,” she stated, including extra arrests have been attainable.

Patrick was energetic on TikTok after the deaths of her dad and mom up till simply days earlier than her arrest, in line 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 submit from Could 17, per Legislation&Crime, which was ended with the phrase “Ought to prob delete later,” Patrick purportedly questions how somebody may shoot her dad and mom in textual content overlays.

The TikTok featured a photograph collage submit 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 attainable,” the message continued. “I am in a horror film that by no means ends.”

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

The primary submit mourning the losses got here on March 1, simply weeks after the Brocks have been shot and killed. Over that video submit of the couple earlier than their deaths, the then-16-year-old Patrick purportedly wrote, “They do not know it however a 12 months from now me and my 5 12 months outdated sister would discover them wrongfully shot useless 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.