An attorney for a Georgia teenager accused of killing her mother and stepfather is seeking more time to prepare for trial, saying a “rogue” officer has surfaced with potentially significant new evidence.
Sarah Grace Patrick, 18, appeared Monday in Carroll County court, where her defense team asked a judge to postpone the proceedings after arguing that previously unknown information had recently emerged.
Patrick was 16 when she was arrested in July 2025 and charged with two counts of murder and two counts of aggravated assault.
Her mother, 41-year-old Kristin Brock, and stepfather, 45-year-old James Brock, were discovered with multiple gunshot wounds inside their Carrollton home on February 20. Carrollton is about 45 miles west of Atlanta, Georgia.
The trial had been scheduled to start August 3, but Patrick’s attorney, Shawn Hoover, said the defense needs additional time to review and investigate the new material.
Hoover told Channel 2 that the defense has concerns involving the lead investigator and another official whom he described as a “rogue officer.”
“We’re in a murder trial, a double homicide,” Hoover said. “And now rogue officers are bringing in evidence that no one knew before.”
Hoover also said the defense needs more time to examine the forensic work conducted by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
However, prosecutors for the state denied the accusation that an officer went rogue and said that a cop tested a gun to see if it was involved in the case but found it wasn’t.
Sarah Grace Patrick, who stands accused of killing her mom and stepdad, previously pictured walking into court before she was denied bail, now has her attorney arguing to delay the trial because of an alleged ‘rouge’ officer brought evidence forward
Patrick was charged with two counts of murder and two counts of aggravated assault stemming from the February 20 shooting deaths of her mother, Kristin Brock, 41, and stepfather, James Brock, 45, who were found with multiple gunshot wounds inside their home in Carrollton, about 45 miles west of Atlanta, Georgia.
The judge overseeing the case is reviewing the request to delay the trial and said they will come to a decision by Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday.
Patrick is being tried as an adult, and Hoover claimed that ‘More needs to be done so I can adequately protect Ms. Patrick’s interests moving forward.’
Before Patrick’s arrest – which cops said was sparked by ‘a mountain’ of digital and physical evidence – the high school graduate curated a chilling portrait of grief on social media and even contacted TikTok true crime creators for help in ‘solving’ her parents’ brutal murder.
Although Patrick has yet to enter a formal plea in court, she is understood to deny the charges and has protested her innocence through her family members and her lawyer.
Police say Kristin and James Brock were both shot dead as they slept in their home in Carrollton.
Patrick was inside the house during the killings and called 911 after her then-five-year-old half-sister, Jaley, discovered the lifeless bodies.
In the months after the killings, Patrick had posted numerous TikToks about the murders and shared selfies of herself mourning her parents, including one on her way to their funeral and another of her crying into her mother’s clothing
There were no immediate suspects or leads, and the couple’s deaths at first seemed like a mysterious tragedy that had left two young girls without a family.
For months, Patrick played the grieving daughter who was coping with an unimaginable loss, delivering a tearful eulogy at the funeral and sharing heartbreaking TikTok videos about her slain parents.
Cops and loved ones of the victims said Patrick’s tearful eulogy made them suspicious, but her supporters say it was a natural reaction to her grief.
