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Mom made 911 call before son shot her, prosecutor says

A Queens mom made a desperate 911 call for help after her greedy son shot her and her husband — and the harrowing recording captured her weeping and the sound of the final two gunshots that killed her, a prosecutor said Monday.

Prosecutors say Shane Jaggarnauth and an unknown accomplice gunned down Shane’s parents, Rosie, 56, and Sugrim, 64, in their Springfield Gardens home in 2012 after they cut him off financially.

But “unbeknownst to them, [Rosie] wasn’t dead. She survived, in excruciating pain and, in spite of fear, gathered up all her strength and managed to pick up the phone and sought help,” said prosecutor Brad Leventhal in his opening statements at Jaggarnauth’s Queens Supreme Court murder trial.

While a 911 operator was still on the line, “the defendant or the accomplice came back to the room not realizing she wasn’t dead and fired another shot,” said Leventhal, who plans to play the tape for jurors.

“[You will] hear the sounds before death, a sound you won’t forget . . . then another shot, the final shot. Rosie was gone,” he told jurors.

Rosie and Sugrim Jaggarnauth’s corpses being removed from their house, where they were murdered.Ellis Kaplan

As the prosecutor graphically described the couple’s lethal wounds, their oldest son, Shawn, wept in the back of the courtroom.

Shane also cried as the prosecutor showed evidence photos of the crime scene.

Leventhal said he’d prove that Shane, 25, intentionally murdered his parents as they slept in their bed Sept. 2, 2011, because of “greed and desperation.”

But the suspect’s lawyer, Michael Siff, urged the jurors to listen to all the evidence.

Jaggarnauth faces life in prison if convicted of shooting his father execution-style in the head and pumping five bullets into his mother because he was removed from two joint bank accounts.

He allegedly had been caught stealing up to $18,000, including $10,000 involving a check in which his mother’s signature was forged.

“He approached his friends making inquiries for a gun and [said he] would pay $5,000 for someone to take out his parents,” Leventhal charged.