BAKER COUNTY, Fla. – Officials have just released the frantic 911 calls from drivers on I-10, as they witnessed a federal corrections officer pistol-whipping a MacClenny man in the fast lane, westbound, near mile marker 330.



Dwayne King, 37, from the Atlanta area, is behind bars in Baker County charged with aggravated assault.



Investigators said King attacked 56-year-old Jeffrey Ledford after a road rage incident.



Ledford is in the intensive care unit at UF Health awaiting surgery and is in critical but stable condition.



Doctors still do not know the extent of his injuries, but they do know his jaw is broken in several places and will have to be wired shut.



He now has no teeth on his right side and the rest are loose. He has staples in his ears and is very depressed, as is his family.



"I'm ok, because I've seen the worst now in my lifetime. I've seen the worst that human beings can do to each other, and it's not a pretty sight," LuAnn Parker, Ledford's sister, said. "The doctor did say if he had hit him with the gun one more time, he would've been dead."



The 911 calls from witnesses describe a frantic scene.



LISTEN: Uncut 911 calls

"I just passed a man who pulled over in front of another car. He pulled up and he got out and he's beating the s**t out of this [man]," one 911 caller said. "He just shot the gun! He just shot the gun!"



But one call stood out from the rest. It was from King, the man cops are calling the suspect.



"I got a guy who tried to run me off the road. I got his keys here, he's out here bleeding, but he attacked me. If he comes at me again, I'm going to shoot," King said. "I'm going to shoot you man. You better go to your f**king car. I got blood all over me and s**t man. This guy had road rage, I guess or whatever. I guess I wasn't going fast enough for him or something. He cut me off and hit the side of my d**n car."



Investigators have concluded that isn't the real story though.



They said the road rage incident started in Duval County and ended near Macclenny when King hit Ledford's car.



Detectives say the corrections officer attacked Ledford inside his car, beating him with his gun, blood covering the inside of his car, then again outside the car, and fired in Ledford's direction.



Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigators processed the cars Thursday and collected quite a bit of evidence, including what they think is King's sweat.



"They found a lot of areas on the outside of the vehicle where somebody was perspiring, some wet spots on the vehicle that they were able to swab and try to test to get DNA," Lt. Brad Dougherty, of the Baker County Sheriff's Office said.



Ledford's family is asking for the community's prayers and anyone who witnessed this incident and did not call police to please do so. He and his family are trying to figure out how they will afford the medical bills he now has.

