KENNETT, Mo. — Rochelle Williams said she was standing on Riggs Street when the horrific scene unfolded Friday afternoon.

“I was coming from a friend’s house when it all got started,” she said as police and fire officials were on the scene of a double-homicide accident a few dozen feet away. The events she described had happened about six hours before.

“By the time I made it to the trash can right here, I seen it when he revved up and crashed into them,” she said.

According to a probable-cause affidavit filed in connection with the case, William Joshua Carter, 25, had just rammed his SUV into the scene for a second time. Police said Carter’s wife, Heather, had called for help moments after the first crash as Aaron Campbell, 25, stood nearby.

But officers didn’t make it to the scene in time for the second crash, which did more damage than the first.

William Joshua Carter

The impact sent both vehicles crashing through the fence behind Manac Trailers. Carter and Campbell were entangled in the crash at the moment of impact.

“It was just too much,” Williams said of the scene.

Dozens of people from the neighborhood walked out into the summer heat to see what had happened. They looked on in horror as Heather Carter was mortally injured, while Campbell later would be pronounced dead at the scene.

“He was under the truck,” Williams said. “It was just a lot, and everybody was screaming. Everybody was trying to help. They were telling them to go back in, go back to work, but everybody was arguing. They weren’t going to go back to work. They wasn’t going to go because they were trying to help — to help what’s going on.”

Carter, 26, later was pronounced dead at a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. She leaves behind three sons, Korbin, Axton and Brycen.

William Joshua Carter was being held Monday afternoon in Craighead County, Arkansas, awaiting extradition to Dunklin County. He faces two counts of second-degree murder.

Williams and others living nearby said they never saw anything like what happened Friday.

“This was no regular traffic crash at all,” she said.

A makeshift memorial stands at the scene of the crash. It features candles, flowers, balloons, a softball and a softball glove.

Heather Carter will be buried Thursday. Visitation begins that day at noon, with funeral services at 2 p.m., all at McDaniel Funeral Home in Kennett.

Aaron Campbell’s funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Bradshaw Funeral Home in Kennett, with visitation that day at 1 p.m. Carter and Campbell will be buried at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Kennett.