Chilling audio has revealed the moment a New Jersey woman begged 911 for help after her maniac neighbor shot her and her husband — asking dispatchers to tell her kids she loved them if she bled to death.
Jill Kwatkoski and her husband, Tom, were left severely injured when their neighbor, John Adamo, 54, suddenly opened fire on them outside their Jersey Shore home on Tuesday afternoon after an apparent years-long feud, cops said.
“Please get the cops here, I’m bleeding to death,” the distressed wife screamed in 911 audio obtained by NBC4.
“I can’t leave my kids,” she continued. “If I do, please tell them that I love them.”
Just moments earlier, Jill had told the dispatcher she feared her husband was already dead outside their home on Drake Drive in Berkeley Township.
“My husband, I think he’s dead outside and my leg is killing me,” the wife said. “I’m in the left leg — my husband I think — at least three rounds. Oh my God.”
“There’s blood everywhere,” she added.
When the dispatcher asked what type of gun the neighbor opened fire with, Jill responded: “It looks like a f–king rifle. It looked like a rifle. Please hurry.”
Cops said Adamo — whom other neighbors described as a combative alcoholic who’d been in a feud with the victims — shot the husband as he was standing outside the home at about 4:45 p.m.
Then he fired his gun at the couple’s house and struck the wife as she stood inside.
After opening fire, Adamo retreated to his own mansion, where he barricaded himself for two hours and eventually committed suicide, cops said.
SWAT teams had swarmed the property during the dramatic standoff and eventually blew Adamo’s front door off its hinges to get inside.
Neighbors were briefly evacuated after authorities found a pressure cooker inside Adamo’s bedroom, but a New Jersey State Police bomb squad later found the device wasn’t rigged to explode.
The couple, meanwhile, were both airlifted to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, where they were initially listed in critical but stable condition.
