Ashley Smylie

On March 19, 2024, Ashley Smylie was murdered at her home in Brandon, Mississippi, by her 14-year-old daughter, Carly Madison Gregg through gunshots to the head. An hour later, Gregg then shot her stepfather Heath Smylie in the shoulder, injuring him. In September of that year, Gregg was found guilty of first-degree murder, attempted murder, and tampering with evidence. After being tried as an adult in a five-day trial with a Rankin County, Mississippi, jury, Gregg was sentenced to two life sentences without the possibility of parole for the murder of Ashley Smylie and attempted murder of Heath Smylie and 10 years for tampering with evidence.