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Sandy • Police here on Tuesday released redacted versions of the calls witnesses made to 911 reporting a man opened fire on a family in a car last week.

"Oh, these people are shot all over the street," one woman caller told a dispatcher moments after violence burst into the residential neighborhood on the afternoon of June 6.

Witnesses, some stoic, others audibly shaken by what happened, described the suspect — who turned out to be 32-year-old Jeremy Patterson — use his own truck to ram and stop a car, and start shooting.

One male caller described seeing a "big black pickup truck" flip a U-turn, and start shooting into another car.

"He pulled over a car and he shot a kid, I think," another caller told the 911 operator.

A woman in the car, 39-year-old Memorez Clark Rackley, and her 6-year-old son Jase, died at the scene.

Myles Rackley, 11, and an 8-year-old girl, also riding in the car, were injured.

Patterson shot and killed himself after shooting into the SUV in which Rackley was riding.

"He's laying in the gutter dead," a male caller said. "There's blood all the way down the gutter. God, it was horrible."

A woman who apparently watched the deadly episode unfold from the beginning, told dispatchers that Patterson, driving a black truck, had almost caused an accident while exiting Brookwood Elementary, where Rackley had picked up her two boys and then caught a ride from a woman police have referred to as "a good Samaritan."

"He was driving crazy," the female caller said, adding, "He intercepted a white SUV. ... He starts shooting. The kid that was in the front seat was shot. ... He shot like around four shots."

Some witnesses reported the gunman wore black and, also because of the way he pursued and stopped another car, at first mistook him for a police officer. Others told dispatchers they unsure if there was an active shooter.

"I don't know if the shooter is still around," another male caller said. "I want to help her, but I don't know if the shooter is still around."

A woman who lives near the shooting scene told dispatchers she had three witnesses to the shooting at her home "that I'm not letting out of my house right now."

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