Jonathan Hirsch

You can imagine that sense of relief and comfort that the family felt now, like hindsight, of course, right?

Yeah, absolutely.

So they pose with the cake, they smile, Bart gets the Rolex, they talk about the future, but what they don't really know is that the future is very short.

So the family goes home, and this is like any other night, they walk up to the front door, there's no outside signs of danger anywhere.

Tricia, the mom, walks up to the front door, first she's sort of leading the pack.

She opens the door, and when she opens it, she's confronted by a masked man

Nightmare.

Who fires a round straight into her and she falls back.

And then this individual proceeds to fire a single round into every one of the Whitakers that are there on the porch.

And all of a sudden, in a matter of seconds, the entire family is mowed down and lying in a pool of blood.

It is shocking and terrifying.

Yeah.

The shooter runs from the house directly after doing this, out the backyard, jumps over the fence, and disappears with a getaway driver into the night.

But not everybody is dead from this attack.

Kent is roughly still aware.

He sort of raises his head.

He sees his wife's blonde hair.

on the floor and he also hears her coughing sort of a wet cough so he knows that her lungs are filling with blood so she probably doesn't have a lot of time left the neighbor heard the shots rushes over and calls 9-1-1 the paramedics arrive kevin's dead on the scene

The mom dies at the hospital and Kent and Bart are medevaced to the hospital and brought into surgery, emergency surgery.

It is.