Earl Smith bundled up the three children in jackets against the cool air and the four set off on foot. The day before had been Autumn's birthday, and Liza Smith had taken the kids to Build-A-Bear. They were all carrying their stuffed animals as they walked.

A few minutes later and a couple of blocks away, Magna resident Sherrie Dennis testified, Jacques drove recklessly in front of her house, swerved up on the sidewalk, screeched across her driveway and back onto the road.

Moments after that, Jacques' car squealed to a stop in front of the Bauman household in Magna. At the time, Jacques was dating David Bauman's sister, and Bauman testified Jacques had called the house, agitated, about eight times that evening looking for the young woman.

"He was slurring his words, not talking straight," Bauman told the court.

About 11 p.m., Bauman and other neighbors heard Jacques' car scream onto their cul-de-sac, and at least four people came outside to see what was going on.

"He was spinning his tires around the circle," Bauman said.

"Where's my girl!" Jacques yelled from the black Kia he was driving.

After an altercation with neighbors, Jacques sped away. He left skid marks coming and going on the street.

Two blocks away, Jacques blazed through a stop sign at an estimated 50 miles per hour, crossed to the other side of the street and hit the Smith family walking on the sidewalk.

 · · · · ·  "I asked him a couple of times, 'Do you know what you've done?'"

— Dana Pugmire, Magna resident who was the first person to reach the crash site after Tory Lee Jacques plowed his car into a family Oct. 25, 2003.

 · · · · ·  Johns was with a Salt Lake County sheriff's deputy reporting the earlier road-rage incident when the sheriff's department received calls about the fatal crash at 7975 W. Molly Drive (3730 South).

Dana Pugmire was loading his truck for a morning hunting trip when he heard a crash and screams from up the street. He sprinted over and was the first person to arrive at the gruesome scene. He saw Desi and Earl Smith unconscious on the ground.

In one of the most haunting pieces of testimony, Pugmire described hearing Autumn calling out for help. She had been thrown over a driveway, bounced off the windshield of a parked car and was wedged so solidly into a chain-link fence that it eventually had to be cut away.

Today Autumn's recollection of that moment is simple: "It was dark and scary."