The family of a 2-year-old killed in an ATV accident gathered Tuesday night to remember him at a candlelight vigil. Meanwhile, there are questions about whether more could have been done to prevent his death.

“You can hear them now," Joanna Johnson told a Sumter County 911 dispatcher as off-road vehicles roared past her home on County Road 235A.

"Yes ma’am I can hear them,” the dispatcher responded.

That sort of engine noise was likely the last sound Jakhyrian Graham, known to his family as "Daddy," heard before an ATV went off CR-235. The boy and several others were struck Sunday.

According to the Florida Highway Patrol, it was an illegal street race. ATVs aren’t even allowed on public roads.

But Johnson's call wasn’t made Sunday.

It was one of four calls people made to deputies over the past few months complaining about illegal ATV and dirt bike races all around the area of Royal Park. The park has a playground where families gather with children.

“I want to report motorcycle drag racing and four wheeler drag racing on County Road 235 in front of the park,” one caller said Sunday, Nov. 30. The caller said there were nearly a dozen off-road vehicles on the streets.

La'tisa Mosley said there’s often many more spectators.

“Some Sundays it’ll be hundreds,” Mosley said.

After the first call, the drivers were issued a warning, and documents show the deputy left after an investigation that lasted three and a half minutes.

Then on Sunday, Dec. 28, Johnson made her call saying the off-road vehicles were circling two blocks from her home to the park.

“I just want them to stop all this drag racing on the street with these dirt bikes,” she told the dispatcher.

That deputy spent 1 minute and 41 seconds on scene, putting in his notes the drivers "agreed to stop for the night."

Jim Donavan, who just starting rehabbing a home next to the crash scene, saw racers gathering for the first time Sunday.

He and his wife said they would have alerted authorities if they knew the size of the crowds the illegal races attracted. He added he wished more was done about the previous calls.

“If it’s against the rules, it’s against the rules. What’s a 2-year-old’s life worth? A warning doesn’t cut it. They don’t bring anybody back,” he said.

Sumter County’s administrator didn’t return our calls regarding if county officials had heard about these races.

The sheriff’s office said they were unaware the races were a regular Sunday event until our call, but would discuss a possible action plan with the sheriff.

Meanwhile, the Florida Highway Patrol continues to investigate the crash. They said 28-year-old Terry Killings Jr. was driving the ATV that went into the crowd. He was taken to the hospital.

No charges have been filed against Killings Jr. However, troopers continue to look for both his ATV and the driver he's believed to have been racing.