Delia D'Ambra

Not long after turning onto Manitiav, the group came to a screeching halt when they saw one station wagon and boat trailer were jackknifed and crashed on the side of the road.

A few bystanders and police officers from Holmes Beach Police Department were gathered around the scene.

And there was blood visible in the car, and crime scene tape was wound around the entire perimeter, and there was blood visible in the car.

In our interview, Annie described the site to me as having all the hallmarks of an active crime scene investigation.

When she got out to see what was going on, Annie told me that she asked a police officer if everyone inside the station wagon was okay, to which the officer didn't really give her a straight answer.

Annie said he just spoke into his radio and notified another officer that family members had arrived on scene.

Then he told Annie to leave and go straight to the hospital in Bradenton.

By that point, Juan Dumas, his two younger sons, and Annie's dad, Raymond, had already been transported, so they weren't physically still on scene.

When the girls and their mothers arrived at the hospital, they were quickly ushered into a conference room and told that 46-year-old Juan, 13-year-old Eric, and 9-year-old Mark and Raymond had all been shot in the head.

Unfortunately, only 52-year-old Raymond would manage to survive the attack.

He'd been shot in the back of his neck, but miraculously, the bullet had not severed any major organs or arteries.

It was still lodged in his neck, though, and the surgeons decided to just leave it alone versus try to remove it because they were worried if they did try to take it out, Raymond could become paralyzed.

The news of the crime was both horrifying and confusing to Annie and her family members because she had literally just laid eyes on all the guys minutes before whatever happened to them went down.

She recounted for me in our interview that trying to make sense of someone murdering her uncle and two of her young cousins and almost killing her father was impossible to do at that moment.

And if all of that wasn't shocking enough, the hits just kept coming when Annie and the rest of her family members learned that a man who lived at a condominium complex near the crime scene had also been attacked and killed, reportedly by the same gunman.

According to the coverage in this case and my interview with Annie, when paramedics and police officers arrived on scene shortly after the crash, they saw the Dumois' boat trailer and station wagon jackknifed on the north side of Manatee Avenue.

First responders immediately observed a man behind the steering wheel with a fatal gunshot wound to his head.

Two young boys in the back seat who'd also been shot in their heads.

And numerous bystanders gathered around the vehicles, caring for a man on the ground who was also bleeding from the back of his head.

A short distance away from the crash scene, there was another scene in a nearby Foodway grocery store parking lot that was swarming with bystanders who were tending to a 60-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the back of his head.