It was just after 7:42 p.m. on a quiet Thursday evening in the suburban town of Maple Ridge when police received a chilling 911 call. The caller — a trembling teenage voice — simply said:
“I didn’t mean to… she wouldn’t stop yelling.”
When officers arrived at the Gregg family home, they were met with a scene straight out of a nightmare.
The front door was open, lights flickering, and the faint sound of a TV still playing in the background.
Inside, 42-year-old Melissa Gregg was found collapsed on the kitchen floor, suffering from a single gunshot wound to the chest.
Her daughter, 17-year-old Carly Gregg, was pacing in circles near the doorway, her hands covered in blood, muttering the same words over and over again —
“She wouldn’t listen… she just wouldn’t listen.”
But it was the surveillance footage from inside the home that later stunned investigators and the public alike.
The footage, captured by a newly installed indoor security camera, shows the two arguing in the kitchen for nearly ten minutes before the shooting.
Melissa can be heard pleading with Carly to put the gun down, saying, “You’re scaring me — please, honey, just talk to me.”
Seconds later, Carly raises the weapon — and the video cuts to black.
When the recording resumes, Carly is seen standing motionless beside her mother’s body, her face blank, as though she’s in complete shock.
Moments later, she places the gun on the counter and picks up her phone — not to call for help, but to record a short video.
In that clip, which police later recovered, she says softly,
“I just wanted her to stop controlling everything. I’m free now.”
Detectives say the incident followed months of escalating tension between mother and daughter — arguments about school, social media, and a new boyfriend whom Melissa disapproved of.
Carly was taken into custody without resistance. She reportedly told police that she “felt numb” and didn’t remember pulling the trigger.
The case has since shocked the community, not only for its brutality but because of the calmness Carly displayed afterward.
Prosecutors have charged her with first-degree murder, though her defense team argues she was suffering from severe emotional distress at the time of the shooting.
Melissa Gregg’s family described her as a devoted single mother who “only wanted what was best for her daughter.”
As the trial date approaches, the haunting surveillance footage — showing those final, tragic moments — remains one of the most disturbing pieces of evidence ever seen by local authorities.