Mom helps son kill 18-year-old mother of his child, FL cops say. She’s convicted

A woman is accused of goading her adult son into killing the 18-year-old mother of his young child, and now she’s going to prison, according to Florida authorities.

Sheila Agee, 52, was sentenced to life after a jury convicted her of principal to first-degree murder in Escambia County. Her son, 22-year-old Keith Agee, was convicted of first-degree murder and also sentenced to life in the 2023 killing of Brooklyn Sims, records show.

McClatchy News reached out to Sheila Agee’s attorney regarding her conviction, but he declined to comment Aug. 7.

The shooting stemmed from the news Keith Agee received Aug. 11, 2023, that he had tested positive for gonorrhea, which he falsely believed he had contracted from Sims, authorities said.

Prosecutors submitted evidence after Keith Agee’s trial confirming Sims never had a sexually transmitted infection, according to WEAR and the Pensacola News Journal.

Sheila Agee took the stand during her trial, broadcast by Court TV, and said she would never hurt Sims.

But text messages shared by the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office between Agee and her son appear to show her at times encouraging her son to kill Sims, telling him he was less of a man if he didn’t.

“I’ll tell you when we get close but if you don’t come kill her you a [expletive],” she texted him, according to the affidavit.

Deputies said Sheila Agee and Sims worked at a Home Depot in Pensacola together, and initially Agee’s son planned to kill Sims when the two women got home from work, records show.

Agee told her son to make sure he didn’t shoot her, too, McClatchy News reported in 2023. She also instructed him not to tell his grandmother, whom he lived with, or she would try to talk him out of it, deputies said.

Eventually, she suggested he come to Home Depot rather than wait, records show.

“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 [your daughter],” Agee texted, according to the affidavit.

At times, Agee also appeared to try to convince her son it was a bad idea, saying the fallout from killing Sims would show his young daughter, “She wasn’t important enough and you just had to prove a point,” according to investigators.

Agee testified that she showed Sims the texts with her son at work that day, but said Sims didn’t seem concerned, because “she knows how Keith was.”

She said this kind of talk was typical for her son, but she never thought he would follow through.

“It’s normal, all the time we’ve done this,” Agee testified. “Never in a million years would I thought my child would take the life of his baby’s mother. That is horrific.”

Keith Agee showed up at Home Depot, found Sims in aisle 52, and fatally shot her, while wounding two others, deputies said. He turned himself in later that day, according to law enforcement.

“The bottom line, in all aspects, is Brooklyn was doing good,” Agee testified. “She was being a mom, the best little mom I’ve ever seen. … She was a good girl. She didn’t bother nobody. She stayed at home, she helped her mom.”

The mother and son were both indicted in connection with the 18-year-old’s death.

This story was originally published August 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM with the headline "Mom helps son kill 18-year-old mother of his child, FL cops say. She’s convicted."