A New Jersey maniac shot his married neighbors Monday afternoon, then barricaded himself in his Jersey Shore mansion and committed suicide after a two-hour standoff with cops, authorities said Tuesday.
John Adamo, 54, of Berkeley Township, shot the husband as he stood outside his Drake Drive home at about 4:45 p.m., according to Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley Billhimer.
Then he turned his gun on the house and shot the wife as she stood inside.
Afterward, he retreated to his house next door and, for the next two and a half hours, brushed off overtures from the local SWAT teams that surrounded the home, Billhimer wrote.
“I heard two very loud gunshots,” a neighbor told NBC New York. “I was walking in the street to warn somebody, and the police arrived.”
One of the teams eventually blew the front door off its hinges and swarmed the home, which sits on a small canal just minutes from the beach.
They found Adamo dead in an upstairs bedroom — after he apparently shot himself, authorities said.
Officials evacuated neighbors because the team also found a pressure cooker inside the bedroom, but a New Jersey State Police bomb squad later found the device wasn’t rigged to explode.
Adamo’s unidentified victims were both airlifted to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, where they’re listed in critical but stable condition, Billhimer said.
Police have not said what Adamo’s motive might have been.
