A beloved high school teacher is dead and her daughter is in custody after a fatal shooting on Tuesday night in Mississippi.
The Rankin County Sheriff’s Office [RCSO] arrived at the home of Ashley Smylie, 40, shortly after 5 p.m. on Tuesday to find her dead on the scene from a gunshot wound, the department said in a statement.
Also present at the scene was Heath Smylie, who had also suffered a gunshot wound, according to the RCSO.
Heath told police that he arrived home to discover his wife dead on the floor and his 14-year-old stepdaughter holding a gun, according to the RCSO.
He said that he was able to wrestle the gun away from the girl but not before she managed to fire a single bullet that managed to strike him in the shoulder, said the RCSO.
The teenager then allegedly fled the scene, ran into the backyard, and hopped a fence before taking off into the woods, Heath told officers.’
Authorities were able to locate the girl just a few minutes later and she is now being held at the Rankin County Juvenile Detention Center ahead of her first appearance before a judge on Wednesday, according to court records.
The RCSO said that the teenager is being charged with murder and attempted murder.
The minor has yet to enter a plea and does not have legal representation.
Rankin County School officials tell WLBT that the victim was a teacher at Northwest Rankin High School, and that her daughter is a freshman at the same school,
The victim’s body is now with the state medical examiner, who will determine her exact cause of death.


It should be investigated if these murderers all took the vaccine.
Thechi child should be charged as an adult. If she does not know the difference between right and wrong by the age of 14, then she never will.
This country is a freak show. There is no sense of family, right or wrong or common sense. This is happening because we’re suppose to accept everything no matter how mentally ill it is. Kids are exposed to freak shows in school where they should be taught basic math, history and science. Democrats want to give every freak nice names like instead of pedophile they want to call them minor attracted person and can’t call illegals, illegals they are newcomers. This country has lost it’s fricken mind and we are all paying for it.
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Louisiana is about to give property owners some of their money back IF they are paying for private school and for the public school too. about time ! The unGREATful SOCIETY has cost Amerika $23 trillion in only 60 years. Not one savage has been made equal yet. We need to defund the Gestapo (FIBbers) too
I live in Canada and paid for the Public school system and also Private school.in the 80s.Never got a penny back so I applaud this action.I was told by a public school teacher not to send my kids to PS so I sent them to a Christian school .Best decision for them.Hard working smart and totally independent now.