Chilling audio has revealed the moment a New Jersey woman begged 911 for help after her maniac neighbor shot her and her husband, pleading with dispatchers to tell her children she loved them even if she died.
Jill Kwatkoski and her husband, Tom, were severely injured when their neighbor, John Adamo, 54, opened fire on them outside their Jersey Shore home on Tuesday afternoon, allegedly after a years-long feud, police said.
“Please get the cops here, I am bleeding to death,” the distraught wife screamed on 911 audio obtained by NBC4.
“I can not leave my kids,” she added. “If I do, please tell them that I love them.”
Jill had just told the dispatcher that she feared her husband had died outside their home on Drake Drive in Berkeley Township.
“My husband, I think he is dead outside and my leg is killing me,” the wife muttered. “I have been in the left leg, probably with my husband, for at least three rounds now. “Oh, God.”
“There is blood everywhere,” she explained.
When the dispatcher asked what type of gun the neighbor was shooting with, Jill replied, “It looks like an f-king rifle. It resembled a rifle. “Please hurry.”
According to cops, Adamo, a combative alcoholic with a history of feuding with the victims, shot the husband as he stood outside the home around 4:45 p.m.
Then he fired his gun at the couple’s home, hitting the wife as she stood inside.
After opening fire, Adamo retreated to his own mansion, barricaded himself for two hours, and eventually committed suicide, according to police.
SWAT teams swarmed the property during the dramatic standoff, eventually blowing Adamo’s front door off its hinges to gain entry.
Neighbors were briefly evacuated after authorities discovered a pressure cooker inside Adamo’s bedroom, but a New Jersey State Police bomb squad determined the device was not rigged to explode.
The couple was airlifted to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, where they were initially listed as critical but stable.
