10 Well-known Dad and mom Who By no means Thought They’d Have Youngsters

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 costume — went on, “I simply wished to say goodbye to my mother and James since we by no means received the possibility to.”

“I used to be so used to you guys at all times 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 very best 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 struggle was not supposed to finish there.”

As for her mother, Patrick stated, “Every part we went via doesn’t outline what sort of individual or what sort of mom you had been. You had been a gorgeous, variety soul with a lot gratitude, and so gosh dang robust.”

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

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

“I could at all times and can at all times be her sunshine, however she’s going to at all times 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 will 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 method 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 accordance with The Solar, the funeral befell on the Catalyst Church in Carollton, Georgia.

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

“After their funeral, after I noticed somebody had recorded this, I instantly saved it as a result of I knew sooner or later 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 considering to your self ‘am I really witnessing the individual that murdered them, standing up right here in entrance of everybody and pretend 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 fortuitously on this case, the monster will get to commerce her costume for a jumpsuit and handcuffs.”

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

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

Kristin Brock and James Brock had 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 informed 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 dealing with 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 obtained 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 informed Sarah and Sarah made the 911 name,” Hulsey stated a press convention on Tuesday.

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

Patrick was along with her organic father once they had been suggested by authorities that the investigation was pointing towards the teenager, per Regulation & 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 identical time, Hulsey stated that the investigation is much from over and he or she’s not ruling out the potential for extra arrests as they are not sure if the alleged suspect carried out the crimes alone.

“Our workforce 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 might 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’s grandfather, Dennis Nolan, spoke with NewsNation’s Banfield on Thursday night time, sharing particulars on his conversations with each Patrick and investigators in regards to the case following her arrest.

“Nicely, it is exhausting to make any judgement at this level. You understand, they need to 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 recognize, 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 at all times regarded 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 informed her simply to do what they are saying and be cooperative, and we’ll do what we will.”

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 data.”

“If that they had one thing concrete, they might have arrested her a complete lot sooner. I imply, why? I simply can’t think about her. I imply, she’s a candy younger woman. She’s at all times been an exquisite 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 had been very shut, they usually had been doing nice at the moment. That they had a terrific relationship.”

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

He claimed investigators informed him “she’s the one one who might have performed it” — and, when he requested about what proof they’ve, claimed they gold him, “Nicely, I am unable to inform you that, however I might simply say that she’s the one one who might have performed it.’”

Hulsey, in the meantime, informed 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 recreation,” she stated, including extra arrests had been attainable.

Patrick was energetic on TikTok after the deaths of her mother and father up till simply days earlier than her arrest, in line with regulation enforcement, who confirmed to Regulation&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 Regulation&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 put up of pics together with each the Brocks and her youthful sister, per Regulation&Crime. In a textual content overlay, Patrick purportedly wrote, “In case 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 very 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 all the things I nonetheless haven’t any solutions, im so confused on how somebody might’ve performed 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 had 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 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.