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Mother Of Alleged Home Depot Murderer Helped Coordinate The Crime, ECSO Says
August 15, 2023
The mother of the alleged Home Depot shooter is also being charged in connection with the murder of an 18-year old last Friday.
Keith Eric Agee, age 20 of Calvert, Alabama, charged with premeditated first degree murder and two counts of aggravated battery in connection with the shooting death of 18-year old Brooklyn Sims last Friday afternoon inside the Home Depot on Davis Highway. She was an inventory company contract employee working inside the store.
Monday night, the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office said they are also charging his mother, with principal (accessory) to first degree murder because she “knew and even helped him coordinate the murder…According to text messages, it’s clear that Keith Agee’s mother, Sheila Agee, knew and participated in the plan to kill Brooklyn Sims. Additionally, text messages between mother and son highlight the mother’s involvement in helping locate the victim.” Those text messages are reprinted below.
“The murder itself is unbelievable, but to know the mother knew about it and helped coordinate it is incomprehensible,” Sheriff Chip Simmons said.
Sheila Agee was arrested in Washington County, Alabama, and will be extradited to Escambia County, Florida, to face charges.
Video footage showed a black male, later identified as Keith Agee enter the store and turn down aisle 52. Seconds later, people are seen running from aisle 52, then Keith Agee runs back toward the entrance. He runs in the parking lot, gets into a silver four-door sedan and exits that parking lot at a high rate of speed toward Duval Street. He called 911 a short time later from the Mellow Mushroom on Bayou Boulevard and surrendered to police.
According to the report, Agee was interviewed at the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office. He stated that his day started by going to work at AM/NS Calvert Steel in Mt. Vernon, Alabama. While at work, he received a call from a local medical office, and he headed to Pensacola. The remainder of his statements were redacted from the report.
THE TEXT MESSAGES BETWEEN KEITH AGEE AND HIS MOTHER
According to the ECSO, the following are text messages sent between Keith Agee and Sheila Agee just prior to the homicide. WARNING: The following includes offensive language and violent wording.
- Keith: “Shi ain’t do nun but cost me money and gave me a ******* I’m fin just shoot her Ik I hate that for [daughter] buh like I said I can’t take it idgaf Nomo.”
- Mother: “Ok.”
- Mother: “Ok I’ll call you and tell you mf if you want to go to jail I’ll tell you when we get close but if you don’t come kill her you a mf b**ch.”
- Mother: “Don’t call nanny and tell her she will try and talk you out of it.”
- Keith: “Ian even gon tell her y I left.” “I’m just say I gotta go to the dentist.”
- Mother: “Don’t even go there she won’t know you left.” “Don’t shoot at my mf car I don’t want to die.”
- Keith: “I’m not”
- Mother: “Wait till I put her out.”
- Keith: “I was gon wait till she got out.”
- Mother: “Ok”.
- Keith: “Buh that’s another thing if she don’t get out that car momma and I have to drag her out or can’t ima ask u to step out Cuz I’m open the door jus shoot her.”
- Mother: “As long as you don’t shoot me.”
- Mother: “Hell if you getting off work now I’ll give you the address here and you can ride over here and do it so you don’t have to do it in front of [daughter].”
- Keith: “Send it to me”
- Mother: “We just in Pensacola.”
- Keith: “I’m otw send it”
- Mother: “Hold up let me get it erase the texts cause I don’t want nobody to know I was texting you stupid ass.”
- Keith: “I already deleted mine trust me ian gon say shi abt us even tlkin td.”
- Keith: “wats the address”
- Mother: “I can’t wait to get back to that store to give you the address cause you gonna have to shoot me today I done told you about cussing me.”
- Keith: “All I want is that address momma I’m done tlkin I done tlked enough Ik wats gonna happen and I’m ok with that I done already been thinkin it thru and ther the only way for me idk why u so quick to start shi wit me buh again must be scared of Brooklyn or sum idk.”
- Keith: “She gon be onna floor right?”
- Mother: “waiting on you”
- Keith: “I’m saying I’m gone have to find her in the back or sum?”
- Mother: “Nope”
- Keith: “Ok”
- Keith: “Stay out my way”
- Mother: “I am”
- Keith: “Lol man get off my phone all I needed was that address leave me alone finish yo work day And you is to I forgot just me”
- Keith: “So that last thought of her knowin she f****d and the regret in her face will b enough to satisfy me idgaf what she see wen she dead, Yes tf she do How tf I’m pick her up when yo sorry ass tryna go gamble or hang in Jackson and she don’t pick up the phone, Nah that ain’t even gon fly she a jus die before I let that continue.”
- Mother: “Ok whatever Idc do what you do idgaf. Cause I’m going home today not to hell or to jail.”
- Keith: “good for u”
- Mother: “Ok then stop texting me I’m working. Do whatever you want to do. It don’t affect me either f***ing way.”
- Keith: “Shi ain’t do nun but cost me money and gave me a ******* I’m fin just shoot her Ik I hate that for [daughter] buh like I said I can’t take it idgaf Nomo.”
- Mother: “Ok.”
- Mother: “Ok I’ll call you and tell you mf if you want to go to jail I’ll tell you when we get close but if you don’t come kill her you a mf b**ch.”
- Mother: “Don’t call nanny and tell her she will try and talk you out of it.”
- Keith: “Ian even gon tell her y I left.” “I’m just say I gotta go to the dentist.”
- Mother: “Don’t even go there she won’t know you left.” “Don’t shoot at my mf car I don’t want to die.”
- Keith: “I’m not”
- Mother: “Wait till I put her out.”
- Keith: “I was gon wait till she got out.”
- Mother: “Ok”.
- Keith: “Buh that’s another thing if she don’t get out that car momma and I have to drag her out or can’t ima ask u to step out Cuz I’m open the door jus shoot her.”
- Mother: “As long as you don’t shoot me.”
- Mother: “Hell if you getting off work now I’ll give you the address here and you can ride over here and do it so you don’t have to do it in front of [daughter].”
- Keith: “Send it to me”
- Mother: “We just in Pensacola.”
- Keith: “I’m otw send it”
- Mother: “Hold up let me get it erase the texts cause I don’t want nobody to know I was texting you stupid ass.”
- Keith: “I already deleted mine trust me ian gon say shi abt us even tlkin td.”
- Keith: “wats the address”
- Mother: “I can’t wait to get back to that store to give you the address cause you gonna have to shoot me today I done told you about cussing me.”
- Keith: “All I want is that address momma I’m done tlkin I done tlked enough Ik wats gonna happen and I’m ok with that I done already been thinkin it thru and ther the only way for me idk why u so quick to start shi wit me buh again must be scared of Brooklyn or sum idk.”
- Keith: “She gon be onna floor right?”
- Mother: “waiting on you”
- Keith: “I’m saying I’m gone have to find her in the back or sum?”
- Mother: “Nope”
- Keith: “Ok”
- Keith: “Stay out my way”
- Mother: “I am”
- Keith: “Lol man get off my phone all I needed was that address leave me alone finish yo work day And you is to I forgot just me”
- Keith: “So that last thought of her knowin she f****d and the regret in her face will b enough to satisfy me idgaf what she see wen she dead, Yes tf she do How tf I’m pick her up when yo sorry ass tryna go gamble or hang in Jackson and she don’t pick up the phone, Nah that ain’t even gon fly she a jus die before I let that continue.”
- Mother: “Ok whatever Idc do what you do idgaf. Cause I’m going home today not to hell or to jail.”
- Keith: “good for u”
- Mother: “Ok then stop texting me I’m working. Do whatever you want to do. It don’t affect me either f***ing way.”
Pictured: The scene at Home Depot on Davis Highway shortly after a shooting that left one person dead Friday afternoon. Photos for NorthEscambia.com, click to enlarge.
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55 Responses to “Mother Of Alleged Home Depot Murderer Helped Coordinate The Crime, ECSO Says”
REGARDING:
“One of the most important concepts that they drove into us is that Justice has to have an objective. Harming people with no clear goal isn’t justice. It’s sadism.”
I have long considered the fact that the risk of being locked up with sadistic criminals is one of the very few things that actually makes prison unpleasant. Consider: you got food, clothing, shelter, medical care. Also limited mobility yes, but your needs are taken care of. If you just didn’t have such certified bad neighbors….
So actually, in a way sadism can be a part of Justice that is locking people up where they have to be afraid of their neighbors. Any fear of the consequences of committing crime would serve a goal for society. You claim that benefits of some forms of punishment are not worth it. I suspect you really oppose it and are using these as justifications rather than actual reasons. But I could be wrong, I have been twice before.
AND
“We can get all philosophical and ask “what makes the legal definition of Justice more viable than the community’s definition?” ”
Actually, not a bad question, aside from the claim you have THE legal definition and that the community shouldn’t be considered.
The idea of not getting philosophical about this seems strange since that’s exactly what the whole thing is. If it did not matter in the grand scheme of things there’s no a reason to favor or oppose changes. Of course there are also many irrational philosophies and I doubt that the assorted books on criminal justice all use exactly the same definition.
I suspect the killer and his mother had very different definitions. I believe we could probably reject theirs. They were willing to kill as a matter of pride as best I can figure from the weird texting because they value that more than a life of this woman or the people around her are in fact their own lives since they were willing to rest being killed. As always the insanity defense makes more sense among people like this.
David for sanity
@Real talk
People change. They grow, they learn, they adapt. I know I’m definitely not the same person I was 10 years ago. And, assuming he lives a full life, this kid is going to have 60+ years to consider what he did and, hopefully,come to terms with it.
Maybe he will. Maybe he won’t. But saying that we should execute him because you gazed into a crystal ball and saw that he is still going to be the same kind of person in a half-century is ridiculous.
@David Huie Green
I minored in criminal justice in college, which is why I always comment on these kinds of stories. One of the most important concepts that they drove into us is that Justice has to have an objective. Harming people with no clear goal isn’t justice. It’s sadism.
You’re right though. A disturbingly large number of people in our community have warped the definition of Justice to mean “anything that causes harm to people I hate”.
Sure. We can get all philosophical and ask “what makes the legal definition of Justice more viable than the community’s definition?”, but that doesn’t change the fact that it terrifies me what the future will look like when “the people we hate” starts shifting from murderers and rapists to minorities and refugees.
@Just Saying
I’m sorry for your losses. You are, however, giving much too much credit to these offenders. If you think that they are contemplating and regretting their actions while sitting in a jail cell, you are horribly mistaken. They are only concerned with themselves and the very instant that they occupy. They will act the same or worse in jail as they did outside. They will act the same or worse should they get out again. If you take a life by murder you give up all rights to your life. Plain and simple. The folks doing this stuff have no soul and no conscience. There are “one hit wonders” in this life and murder is one. One murder and you should lose your life. The only drawback to that is they don’t respect life enough for that punishment to matter to them. The hard reality is that there are monsters among us and they cause mayhem. There are going to be here with or without the death penalty or life in prison or any form of punishment that can be thought up.
REGARDING:
“Give criminals life, no appeal, no defending what they did over and over”
Very few people believe that each and every crime deserves life in prison or sometimes even prison at all. Further, the Constitution guarantees the right to appeal. There is no guarantee that they will win their appeal but people have that constitutional right to appeal.
It is interesting that anyone would think that a person should not have a right to appeal especially since it is possible some people could have evidence turn up showing they were not guilty of whatever crime they were convicted of. Yes, I know there are people who hate our Constitution and want to live under some dictatorship in which they get to make the laws and everyone else has to simply obey.
Those people often have criminal intent since they are wanting to overthrow the Constitution, the supreme law over this nation. Under your statement they should be in prison for life without a right to appeal. I wonder if — given the right jury — that would include you (or me).
An Uncle of mine by marriage was charged with murder. He was unsuccessfully tried several times until the government finally gave up. Years later the man he was accused of murdering showed up. Uncle Dick walked up to him said, “I told them I didn’t kill YOU .” The man agreed that he had murdered someone else. He was not guilty of the crime for which he was charged. He was guilty of a different crime — similar but different.
Just something to think about.
David for perfect Justice, whatever that is
plus some mercy where possible
REGARDING:
“There are three tenants that “Justice” has to adhere to: it must be preventative, protective, rehabilitative, or some combination of the three.”
”has to adhere to:”
“it must be”
If you can force everyone to follow your definition and the definitions of all the words within your definition, then you tend to win your argument.
On the other hand if to win your argument, you have to force everyone to follow your definition and the definitions of all the words within your definition, then you have admitted that you would lose under a natural situation with freedom to choose.
Your definition of justice is close but it is not the only applicable one. In fact people disagree over Justice that’s why we have judges and lawyers and legislators. They they get to make their definitions.
But you really don’t win if you can only win by forcing others to comply. You don’t actually win if you wear them down or mock them for disagreeing when you have different original definitions. Obviously their definition of justice is not the same as yours.
Please consider these facts.
@Mike
You’re right. I should have known better than to waste my time trying to use logic to talk people out of positions they didn’t logic themselves into.
I guess it’s just disappointing being reminded how little the people in my community care about human life.
Bob
Play stupid games win stupid prizes
There are some sick, twisted people in these comments.
Y’all talk about how disgusting it is that this man and his mother could have such little regard for human life, while *simultaneously* calling for them to be executed, despite the fact that there are no benefits to killing them over life in prison other than sating your bloodlust.
It’s bad enough knowing that there was a murderer in our community. It’s even worse knowing how many of you would gladly do the same if given the opportunity.
This is so wrong. This young lady Ms. Brooklyn Sims lost her life with her Daughter losing her Mother, and with her Family their loved one. It is just not right. I just cannot believe that the Agee’s would plot this young Mother’s murder. They need the death penalty on this case. And it does not need to be 20 years later and then it hits. I don’t believe that the death penalty is any kind of deterrent because there is no empathy with these two.
It’s difficult to find a word to describe the two Agee’s. Evil is too nice.
Sweat so much you feel cooked in one of those unbearable, no air conditioning, work camp prisons. Scorching by day and very little relief by night.
Just to name a few: (2/3 of Florida prisons have no air conditioning in dorm rooms)
Union, Martin, DeSoto, Columbia, Santa Rosa, Dade, Charlotte, Suwanee, Hernando, Lowell for Women.
The corrections departments have begun selling cooling towels, moisture-wicking shirts, and straw hats at the inmate canteen, where prisoners purchase snacks, personal hygiene items, and more.
Oh, you pitiful Agee’s. I bet you never dreamed of living the rest of your life in unsafe and hot conditions. Good Luck in your future endeavors.
In my earlier thoughts about this killing, I suggested you be fried. But thinking about how miserable you could be for life is better than going quickly.
Remember those text messages every time sweat drips from your face.
There is no rehabilitation here. He needs the death penalty and so does the mom. They have zero remorse and knew exactly what they were doing. The girl doesn’t get a second chance, why do we taxpayers need to pay for such evil! There is no question of guilt or intent here, anyone with this mentality will not be rehabilitated, he is not sorry at all for what he did, no remorse for taking a life. I would love to know what all the people that are begging for his life on here would do or think if it was their child that was murdered in cold blood
Bewildered said it ll. Let’s have correct English. We are what we are born with, boy or girl and it has nothing to do with school. Capital punishment is just a way for attorneys to become millionaires. Give criminals life, no appeal, no defending what they did over and over and no holidays as if they are entitled to celebrate.
@Matt and Bob,
My sister was murdered in 1981. My dad was murdered in 1996, and my brother was murdered in 2019. My sister’s murdered was never even arrested. The police refused to do anything and ruled it a suicide, despite the coroner stating in his autopsy report that it was impossible for her to have shot herself in the manner in which she was killed AND that her murderer had gunshot residue on his hands.
My father was shot to death in his own home. The evidence was very clear, and yet, no arrest was made.
My brother’s killer has been in jail for going on three years now awaiting trial. The first trial was declared a mistrial when his defense attorney tested positive for drugs after erratic behavior in the courtroom.
Part of me says to put each murderer to death, but a much larger part of me says that’s giving them the easy way out. Our family has to live with what they did, so why shouldn’t they have to live with it as well? Why give them an easy out by ending their lives? It won’t bring our loved ones back. I would much rather that they spend a long life behind bars, contemplating their actions and what they could and should have done differently. I want them to be miserable. I want them to suffer. Being strapped to a gurney and falling asleep, never to wake up again, is a blessing, not a curse.
This is so sad. How would this woman feel if someone had set there and plotted her son’s death. This girl could not have did anything to justify her being killed this way or any other way for that matter. People are being just so evil. Walk away if you cant get along. Now at least two lives are destroyed this poor young girl that is deceased and a child that lost her mother. So so sad
@Frank
There are three tenants that “Justice” has to adhere to: it must be preventative, protective, rehabilitative, or some combination of the three.
If you want out legal system to be punitive? Sure. But it’s not justice.
@Bobbob
I’m truly disturbed that you think human life has less value than trash.
A lot of good comments here. I agree with Derek & a few others. This situation is so sickening! The mentality of this mother & son, very disturbing & evil!
Most folks don’t keep their garbage sitting around in case something in it becomes useful later.
But obviously one person on here does.
“Death penalty doesn’t rehabilitate anyone, doesn’t make a good deterrent, etc” and where did you get these stats sir? When the death penalty was enforced, we had far less gruesome crimes.
Kids today, have no fear of consequences to any actions.
And to Bob, one good reason is, he took the life of a young beautiful girls only 18.
he confessed, and hard evidence, NO one innocent here… This was a well planned out brutal murder!
To tell you the truth, I am not a big fan of the death penalty. I do not have the answers.
George, George, George (shaking head).
No one has answered the question. Give me ONE good reason why the death penalty should remain in place, and how many innocent people you think should be sacrificed to keep it.
Almost as bad as Long Island Rex. Not quite as evil. But, almost.
Why was the girlfriend ridding with his momma.. crazy
You can tell this isn’t moma’s and sons first rodeo.
Pure evil!!!
Someone asked why the death penalty over life in prison. I agree death penalty doesn’t rehabilitate anyone, doesn’t make a good deterrent, etc. THE argument, far as I am concerned, is that some people are too dangerous to ever live among us again, and all too often people who are supposedly in jail “for life” get let out due to some change in the law. This young man is a danger to everyone around him. There is no good that can come of keeping him alive.
Ignorant, illiterate, heartless, evil and just plain crazy. Do NOT turn these crazies loose on the rest of us. Please!
The texts between “monster” & son are extremely disturbing! This has become our reality now. Every judge that hands out slaps on the hand, need to be removed from the bench immediately! Our police officers do all the dangerous work & the judges just let them go!
Praying for the precious 2 year old & all families involved. Just sad!
@Bob
Neither the death penalty or life in prison are sentences that are meant to rehabilitate the incarcerated. They are strictly punitive in nature and were meant to be deterrents for others who might consider committing similar crimes… whether or not that is effective is a completely different debate. In general, society as a whole doesn’t really see the benefits of the death penalty (besides the aforementioned deterrent aspect), but it could be argued that it serves as the ultimate justice for the victims of the crime. Not sure there is a one-size-fits-all solution. If the financial cost is main concern, I would say reach out to the family of a victim and see if they think it is a justifiable burden.
“Evil Breeds Evil”
LORD!!!! Who raising who these days? She had the audacity to help his sorry ass commit this homicide. She needs to Go under the jail! Now you nor him would be raising daughter. Brooklyn family I pray you will get the justice you deserve. So sad she had to lose her life behind dumber and dumber!
Bob, Bob, Bob, (shaking head) you are in the wrong conversation. It has been explained to you but you will not listen.
@ Bob
Because sometimes you have to take out the trash. The prisons are full of trash and it’s easier and safer for those working in the prisons to get home every night. We have the death penalty laws just for people like this. Let’s run them through it. This isn’t ever going to be an innocent man getting put down. This is textbook death penalty
I agree with Felix – interpreter needed to decipher mother/son text correspondence. Maybe schools should focus on teaching proper English instead of worrying what sex a pupil feels he/she/it wants to be.
As far as Skipper‘s question regarding the death penalty. Most supporters of the death penalty favor that it carried be out immediately after sentencing. To pay millions upon millions to lawyers and courts for 30 years or more is ridiculous – agreed. Most death row inmates die of natural causes by then
Well while they’re locked up maybe they can take some language arts classes and learn how to speak English
And to make it worse….this absolutely EVIL woman was at her balloon release/memorial. My heart goes out to Brooklyn’s family.
@Skipper
I’ve asked this multiple times on the multiple articles for this story. So far, no one has been able or willing to answer.
Why would you support the death penalty over life in prison? It’s no more rehabilitative, much more expensive, and carries an inherent risk of the state executing an innocent person. What benefits do you see that would outweigh the costs?
It is hard to believe people actually talk like this…I can barely decipher it.
From what I can discern from all of that text gibberish, is that they are both culpable, and should get the death penalty post haste, this may send a message to others of a similar ilk, that this kind of behavior will not be tolerated in our society and will be eradicated as quickly as possible.
Just telling them they were naughty does not seem to be having the required effect!!
This is a conspiracy, not the other stuff you will see on TV the next weeks and months. Disturbing that a mom telling her son where her grand child’s mom will be working. All he needed was the address and all she cared about was “don’t shoot my car”. As far as I am concerned this should be a federal case crossing state lines and both are equally guilty of the crime of first degree premeditated murder!
I need an interpreter.
I’m hoping the court system is going to do what is best for society!!! When she is convicted and probably will be give her the maximum punishment allowed by law no gain time do all the time!!! The young lady they murdered is never going to be here for her say so !!! The mother is as if not more guilty of the crime !!! Lock her up permanently!!!!!!
Considering the mom and her attitude, I can understand why her son turned out to be such a loser. At least they will be away from the child involved.
Always keep it in the family
This scenario started with Keith Agee getting a disease result that he didn’t like.
So he takes it upon himself to kill the girl. But, not until he had help from his crazy momma.
It seems that Sheila Agee was at Home Depot at the time of the shooting.
Mother: “Hell if you getting off work now I’ll give you the address here and you can ride over here and do it so you don’t have to do it in front of [daughter].”
Keith: “Send it to me”
Mother: “We just in Pensacola.”
Mother: “Ok whatever Idc do what you do idgaf. Cause I’m going home today not to hell or to jail.”
Deleting text messages only deletes them from your device. Cell providers keep messages stored for at least one year along with voice mails.
Both the mother and son need the death penalty.
Makes you wonder what Crooked Attorney will handle this case with the evidence starring you in the face.
“At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.” Billy Madison
This isn’t a “mama’s boy”. It’s a “mama’s toy” to use as she pleases. How disgustingly evil and a perfect example of worse than bad parenting. The mother should get a Life Sentence, as well. She put that evil in his head from birth. From evil comes evil.
Our society is in trouble we have thugs raising thugs hopefully these two will never see the outside world again.
That mama talks t like killing someone is normal if your mad at them.. no care in the world for life.
Hell and jail seem to be exactly where that mama and her baby are heading.
Feeling strongly that the killer’s Mama is the one who stirred all this up from the git-go.
Bet the victim was going to deny the baby-daddy from seeing their daughter and the baby-daddy mama went crazy.
What a MESS….
An example of how unconcerned some in our society are about the lives of others.
Hope for a swift and just trial and if found Guilty they both seerve very long and unhappy lives in Prison.
God Help Us, Please…..
The result of society devaluing life for generations.
Apparently they don’t watch the ID channel.
their callous disregard for human life is despicable, sorry excuses for human beings
“The Banality of Evil” – Hannah Arendt, 1963.