Trans teen killer’s chilling 911 call after gunning down mother, 41, and stabbing her boy toy, 22, when she ran out of bullets

The 911 call of a transgender teen accused of killing her mother and stabbing her mother’s boyfriend when she ran out of bullets has been released.

Julia Grace Egler, 16, apparently tried to blame an unknown masked man who broke into her Palm Bay, Florida, home on July 6 and fatally shot her mother Kelley McCollom, 41, and her mother’s boyfriend, Matthew Szejnrok, 22.

She cried hysterically during the call, just after midnight, as she told the dispatcher that the masked man had probably used a hammer to smash the glass back door, changing her story as she went.

“I don’t think the door was locked, but I don’t think he knew there was a hammer by the back window,” Egler told officers. according to Fox 35.

When the operator asked if it was her family’s hammer or if the attacker had brought his own, Egler replied, “It was just the hammer from the house. It was just lying around the back [inaudible].

“I think they took it and smashed the window.”

Egler said she then grabbed her dogs and hid in her bedroom.

She further claimed that the unknown assailant was making “loud noises” and she believed he had kicked in her mother’s bedroom door – but did not dare enter her bedroom because he was not looking for her and was deterred by her barking pit bulls. NJ Advance Media reports.

Eventually, Egler heard her mother and Szejnrok coming home from buying a bed frame. Then she heard five or six gunshots and screams.

“I couldn’t warn her, it’s all my fault,” Egler sobbed to the operator.

She said she stayed in her bedroom for about an hour before coming out to a bloody scene. She told the dispatcher she didn’t want to let the dogs out of her bedroom, “because I didn’t want them to get blood on their paws.”

Egler also claimed that she had seen her mother’s bedroom broken into and that she had gone into the bedroom to check a locked box of valuables. She knew her mother kept a gun in a holster there.

The holster was empty and missing ammunition, she said.

But when asked to describe the man who broke into the home, Egler simply said, “Oh… it’s hard to remember.”

Egler (pictured with her mother, Kelley McCollom, 41) had tried to blame the gruesome murders on a masked man who had entered their home

Police found the body of Matthew Szejnrok in the bathroom with several shell casings nearby after he allegedly begged Egler to stop. The 22-year-old is pictured on the right

Her story quickly came to light when police arrived on the scene.

Detectives noted that there were shards of glass on McCollum’s leg and on top of Szejnrok’s phone, indicating that the glass broke after the two had already been killed.

They then found the .38 caliber revolver just outside Julia’s bedroom window, the bloodstained knife on the bathroom counter, and the bloody footprints that matched her shoes.

Police also reported finding drops of blood leading from the front door to the bathroom, where Szejnrok’s body was found, with multiple shell casings nearby, after he begged Egler to stop.

None of the many cameras around the house found any trace of an intruder.

Eventually, officers took Egler in for questioning, where she confessed to committing the double murder.

None of the many cameras around the house found any trace of an intruder

Authorities said she said she stole her mother’s gun and waited in the kitchen with the gun and a knife in her pockets until they arrived home around 10:30 p.m.

“Welcome home,” she told them, before reportedly opening fire on her mother with the .38 caliber revolver, shooting her multiple times until she was dead.

According to police, Egler then pointed the gun at Szejnrok, who fled to the bathroom and begged for his life. But she shot him repeatedly anyway.

When the gun ran out of bullets, she reportedly grabbed the kitchen knife and began brutally stabbing him on the bathroom floor.

Szejnrok, mortally wounded and in mortal fear, ‘essentially asked [Julia] to put him out of his misery,” the statement said.

At that point, Egler walked back into her mother’s room, loaded another round into the revolver and shot him in the head, police said in a sworn statement.

According to police, Egler, left, had disagreements with her mother, right, about her gender identity and had an argument with her about dating a 22-year-old

Palm Bay Police Lt. Virginia Kilmer said mother and daughter had been having “a lot of disagreements over the past few weeks.”

“Egler cited long-standing conflicts with her mother, including disagreements over her gender reassignment, as well as her disapproval of her mother’s relationship with Szejnrok, as motives for the crime,” he said.

She had transitioned from male to female many years earlier as a young child and had appeared as a girl on McCollom’s social media pages since 2015.

In her posts, she seemed supportive of her daughter’s gender identity, constantly referring to her as “my daughter” and sharing cute photos of them together.

Police are now trying to put all the pieces of the puzzle together, specifically looking at previous cases in which McCollom was allegedly abused.

One incident occurred approximately 11 years ago with Egler’s biological father, while the other incident occurred in April 2024 with Szejnrok. This was reported by Florida Today.

Szejnrok was arrested in April and charged with assaulting McCollum

Police said at the time that he and McCollom were arguing in public when he repeatedly grabbed her.

The prosecution dismissed the charges and he was allowed to return home to McCollom and Julia.

His older brother Dustin Szejnrok announced his death in a Facebook post, but did not indicate that he had been murdered.

“Hi everyone, it’s hard to put into words but it’s easier to share with people who may not have been reached,” he wrote.

“My youngest brother Matthew Szejnrok has passed away. If you have not been contacted yet, please do not call us about what happened or how.”

Egler is now charged with two counts of first-degree murder.

She is being held in juvenile detention, but police said she could be charged as an adult. The investigation is ongoing.