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The frantic mother of Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher begged her son’s mortally wounded girlfriend to survive in chilling 911 recordings released this morning.
“Stay with me, the ambulance is on the way. Stay with me,” Belcher’s mom Cheryl Shepherd could be heard shouting at Belcher’s girlfriend Kasandra Perkins the audio from Kansas City firefighters.
Shepherd told a 911 dispatcher that her son had shot Perkins after an argument and that he had taken off.
“Yes, yes they were arguing,” the worried mom said. “Just get the ambulance here!”
Authorities also released the audio recordings of dispatchers calling for an ambulance to go to Chiefs headquarters.
But in stark contrast to Shepherd’s panicked pleas, the dispatcher sending help to the Chiefs knew there was little that could have been done for Belcher.
“We need code 1 ambulance, he’s probably dead, No. 1 Arrowhead Drive the practice field at Chief Stadium,” the female voice said.
“It’s a self-inflicted shooting, they said it’s a done deal we got a player that shot himself.”
His mother said Wednesday that the slayings have not diminished her love for the couple.
“That’s my son, and I love him,” Shepherd said in a brief telephone conversation Wednesday. “She’s my daughter-in-law, just like my daughter.”
Shepherd declined to say anything more about her son.
The night before Belcher killed Perkins and himself, he had been with Brittni Glass at the Tengo Sed Cantina on Friday night, commiserating with staffers over his team’s then 1-10 record, waitress Ellen Richards, 27, said yesterday.
“He was saying, ‘Hi, my name is J.J.; I play for the Chiefs,’ ” Richards said about the 11:30 p.m. encounter.
“I asked him how we are handling everything [with the team’s record], and he said, ‘We’re standing strong. Kind of a tragedy, but we’re getting through it.’ ”
That same night, Belcher exchanged text messages with former University of Maine teammate Reggie Paramoure, according to Sports Illustrated.
“I see y’all boys aint doing too well,” Paramoure said about the Chiefs’ record. “Wats goen on wit u besides ball.”
“Our ‘o’ can’t even put 7 in the board for us, but everything good bro, baby momma crazy but I have a little girl almost 3 month man and she’s a blessing, she makes me smile on the worst day,” Belcher responded
“Daughter!” Paramoure texted back, then cracked that Belcher would need a gun to fend off her future suitors.
“Yea man,” Belcher answered, “I got about 8 guns now, from hand Gunz to assault rifles for her little bf’s.”
The previous week’s game had been the first this season that Belcher didn’t start.
“Just trying to stay on the field and get this new contract, but this losing s–t ain’t helping,” Belcher wrote to his friend, the magazine said.
Belcher returned home Saturday morning and shot Perkins, 22, to death in a jealous rage after they argued about her staying out late at a concert.
His mom Shepherd has told police she heard her son screaming, “You can’t talk to me like that!”
And in a grotesque goodbye, Belcher’s mother watched as he leaned over Perkins’ corpse and told her he was “sorry” — then kissed her forehead, police said.
Belcher then apologized to his mom, kissed his daughter, and drove to the team’s practice facility.
“I did it. I killed her,” police said Belcher told the team’s general manager.
“Guys, I have to do this,” Belcher said, according to police. “I got to go. I can’t be here.”
He then ran behind a car, kneeled, made the sign of the cross and killed himself, police said.
A person familiar with the arrangements says a memorial service for Belcher is planned for Wednesday afternoon.
The team moved up its practice schedule Wednesday so players could attend a 2 p.m. memorial service for Belcher at the Landmark International Deliverance and Worship Center in Kansas City. The source who spoke to The Associated Press requested anonymity because the person wasn’t authorized to discuss the event.
The source said the memorial service is not open to the public. Other details of the service aren’t known.
With Post Wire Services and David K. Li