After killing her boyfriend and shooting their dog, Barbara James-Tolbert sat silently on the back patio of her mother’s home and waited for authorities to find her, according to Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office records.

The 25-year-old would only turn herself in to one man — a video technician at the sheriff’s office who happens to be her relative.

The technician met James-Tolbert at the home. She was barefoot and wearing a stretched-out gray sweatshirt. He told deputies they prayed together before he drove her to the sheriff’s office’s headquarters.

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Detectives arrested James-Tolbert first on three counts of failing to appear at traffic-court dates, and then on a first-degree murder charge in the fatal shooting of 25-year-old Albren Banks at their home in the St. Andrew’s Palm Beach Condominiums west of Florida’s Turnpike and north of Belvedere Road.

Judge Dina Keever-Agrama ordered that James-Tolbert remain in the Palm Beach County Jail without the possibility of posting bond as her case moves through the court system. Her family declined to speak with reporters after the brief hearing Thursday, but relatives and former classmates have expressed in public social media postings their disbelief about the fatal shooting and her arrest. They stressed that only James-Tolbert and Banks knew “what went on in that house.”

While at the jail — she first went to Wellington Regional Medical Center for complaints of pain in her wrist and face — James-Tolbert made a call during which a woman said, “You are lucky you didn’t end up in a ditch because last night he beat you.”

James-Tolbert replied, “Ma, you talk too much,” and changed the subject.

She told the technician to whom she turned herself in, a part-time PBSO civilian employee, that “she was tired of being beat” by Banks. Neighbors, however, told authorities that Banks didn’t beat her. In fact, she would physically drag him back in to arguments when he tried to leave, they told detectives and The Post in an interview Thursday.

Banks does not appear to have a history of domestic violence arrests, at least not in Palm Beach County. James-Tolbert was arrested in 2015 on a battery charge stemming from an incident with a different man whom she accused of talking to another woman. The State Attorney’s Office decided not to file those charges.

“He wasn’t no rough or out-of-control guy,” said a neighbor, Elizah Jones. “He just let her beat on him.”

Detectives say two bullet defects on the sidewalk outside the couple’s home, on the 1000 block of Lake Victoria Drive, were evidence that James-Tolbert followed Banks as the already injured man tried to get away.

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Detectives found a trail of blood coloring the path between the couple’s bedroom and a neighbor’s home where Banks eventually collapsed.

Jones told The Post in an interview Thursday that he was at the home of the mother of his children when they heard Banks knock. He told detectives he opened the door and saw James-Tolbert and yelled to her, “I got kids inside. Don’t do anything stupid.”

He pulled Banks inside and locked the door. Then he heard another “pop.”

He said the mother of his children huddled the kids together in the back of the home and called 911. Authorities said they received another 911 call that afternoon from a woman saying she shot her boyfriend. Then the line disconnected.

Jones said he did everything he could to keep Banks alive while they waited for rescue crews.

He recalled Banks saying that James-Tolbert was “mad at him” and that “she took the money.” Banks told Jones he didn’t think he was going to live.

He died four hours later at St. Mary’s Medical Center.

The sheriff’s office SWAT team evacuated the nearby apartments as they searched for James-Tolbert. Meanwhile, she’d somehow made it 2 miles east to her mother’s home.

Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control has custody of the dog allegedly shot on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2018, by Barbara James-Tolbert at the St. Andrews Palm Beach Condominiums in suburban West Palm Beach. Officials there said they were making plans to provide for the dog’s medical care. (Photo provided by Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control)

As she made her way to the sheriff’s office, James-Tolbert told the technician, “I was in the room and locked the door and he was banging on the door. I unlocked the door and I shot him and I shot the dog, and I know the dog is dead.”

Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control authorities said the dog is in critical condition and may have to have its front leg amputated. Sheriff’s authorities found the injured pit bull on a back patio.

James-Tolbert also told the technician, “When they search the house, they are going to find guns that don’t belong to us.”

Records indicate that authorities found a 7.62 mm Draco rifle in the master bedroom of the home and an expended shell casing nearby. They found two more rifles during their search of the home.