It all started one weekday after school in June, when a man rammed his truck into the car Memorez Rackley and her sons were riding in and started firing shots into it.
Among the immediate impacts, Rackley, 39, and her 6-year-old son, Jase, were dead. Rackley’s older son, Myles, and the daughter of the woman who was driving the Rackleys were injured. The man, Jeremy Patterson, who’d briefly dated Rackley, also died. He shot himself in the street.
In the aftermath of deaths so public, so sudden and so violent, it’s easy to pick apart the timeline and find instances of things gone wrong.