‘Big and Bad to Shoot Her’: Maryland Mom Under Fire Online After Elaborate Scheme Unravels About How Her 13-Year-Old Daughter Was Shot Moments After Arriving Home from School

On September 23, Maryland police responded to a 911 call and found a 13-year-old girl with a gunshot wound to her neck slumped at the bottom of the staircase in her Seat Pleasant home. Her mother, 32-year-old Talecka Brown, blamed the shooting on a random homeless person, telling police that her daughter arrived home from school already bleeding, said court documents obtained by NBC4 Washington. Talecka Brown arrested after concocting elaborate story following shooting of her 13-year-old daughter. )Credit: Seat Pleasant Police Department) But that lie quickly unraveled during a police investigation, which turned up surveillance video of the teen happily walking home from school with her backpack. In the video, she even pulled in a trash can from the curb before entering the house. During police questioning, a chilling scenario unfolded. Fighting for her life at the hospital, the teen told police that she and her mother got into an argument when she returned from school, and it quickly escalated and got physical. After the fight, the girl went to walk down the stairs when she heard a single gunshot and tumbled to the bottom, where she was unable to move. In addition to the neck wound, there were...