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Calls made by the frantic wife of a Hoboken lawyer who was shot late last year by carjackers at the Short Hills mall in New Jersey have been released, and they reveal some disturbing information about emergency responders.

The ambulance called to the scene on Dec. 15 to help Dustin Friedland after he was shot, reportedly took 30 minutes to arrive at the scene — longer than authorities initially admitted.

In the tapes, you can hear Jamie Schare Friedland shouting at the dispatcher to locate the ambulance that was sent to help her dying husband.

“Yes, this is an emergency! I’m at the Short Hills mall parking lot! My husband has been shot!” a distraught 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!”

Millburn police originally said that it took the ambulance 18 minutes to get to the mall after being alerted, but was late because the emergency vehicle had trouble fitting in the parking garage due to the low ceiling.

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.

Four suspects: Karif Ford, 31, Basim Henry, 32, Kevin Roberts, 35 and Hanif Thompson, 29, were apprehended and charged in the death of Friedland. They have all pleaded not guilty.

As always, our prayers go out to the victim’s family.

SOURCE: NY Post