The stricken wife of a Hoboken lawyer who had just been shot by carjackers at the Short Hills mall in New Jersey can be heard frantically screaming for help in a newly released 911 call.
“Yes, this is an emergency! I’m at the Short Hills mall parking lot! My husband has been shot!” a distraught Jamie Schare Friedland, 27, shouts to the dispatcher. “We called an ambulance a half an hour ago! Where is it?”
The emergency operator tries to calm down the panicked woman, telling her, “They’re on their way,” but Friedland shouts back, “When? When? When? Give me a time!”
The phone call, first detailed by The Star-Ledger on Monday, was recorded in the minutes just after the horrific parking-lot shooting at the ultra-posh mall around 9 p.m. Dec. 15.
Millburn police told the paper that it took an ambulance 18 minutes to get to the mall after being alerted to the shooting but that the emergency vehicle had trouble then reaching the actual scene — because it couldn’t fit under the low ceiling of the lot entrance.
Emergency workers were forced to wheel a stretcher up a parking lot ramp to the third-floor lot where Dustin Friedland, 30, lay dying of a single gunshot wound to the head. He was pronounced dead hours later at the hospital.
The Friedlands had just walked back to their luxury silver Range Rover after a night of holiday shopping when they were confronted by the gun-toting thugs.
Dustin Friedland briefly struggled with one of the attackers before being shot. His wife, also a lawyer, was then forced out of the SUV at gunpoint, and the perps roared off in the car.
The brazen violence was particularly shocking given it occurred at a mall that boasts such ritzy tenants as Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Tiffany & Co., Cartier, Chanel and Gucci.
Four men — Karif Ford, 31, Basim Henry, 32, Kevin Roberts, 35; all of Newark; and Hanif Thompson, 29, of Irvington — were apprehended days later and charged in Friedland’s death.
They’ve each pleaded not guilty.
Prosecutors have yet to say who fired the fatal shot.