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It was an average Thursday afternoon in a quiet residential neighbourhood in Ohio. The sun was shining. A few dogs barked here and there.
A woman was driving home and had almost reached her house when a blonde teen girl sprinting down the street caught her attention.
She was allegedly screaming and claiming that her stepfather was "killing everyone in her family."
The events of the next several minutes unfolded like a scene in a horror movie.
"I asked her to get in the car with me, and she said she couldn't leave her family," the neighbour can be heard saying in a recording released to Fox News.
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Clermont County police apprehended Chad Doerman at his Ohio home (Clermont County Sheriff's Office)"Did you see anything from the house?" the dispatcher asked her.
"I was afraid that I was going to get shot myself since I interacted with her face-to-face," she responded.
Notes of panic infused the caller's voice as she struggled to find the words to express what she was seeing.
Minutes later, the police apprehended 32-year-old Chad Doerman, who was sitting nonchalantly on his front porch, the dead bodies of his three toddler sons scattered about his front yard.
They were aged 3, 4 and 7.
Doerman is accused of shooting and killing two of them with the rifle he was allegedly holding when police arrived.
When police arrived at Chad Doerman's home, they found him nonchalantly sitting on his stoop, his sons' bodies in the yard in front of him (Clermont County Sheriff's Office)He then hunted down the third, locating him in a neighbour's yard, according to the Clermont County Sheriff's Office. He dragged the screaming toddler back to his own yard before shooting him, too.
"This is by far the most sickening, horrifying crime I have seen," Clermont County Prosecutor Mark Tekulve told .
His teenage stepdaughter escaped with the family dog and fled to a nearby fire station.
Another caller allegedly witnessed the shooting happen and reported it to the police.
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Doerman was charged with three counts of aggravated murder and is being held on a bail of $20 million.
He was arraigned on Friday and is set to reappear in court on June 26.