Rosie Jaggarnauth had already been shot in the head when she reached a telephone and called 911, prosecutors said. While she remained on the line, three more bullets struck her, and she died during the call. The operator testified that the gunfire is audible on the recording available here. "I heard the shots myself," the operator said, according to CBS 2, which obtained the audio.
The released 911 recording from Rosie Jaggarnauth's call as gunfire was heard over the line.
Police arrived at the family's home on Grayson Street in the Springfield Gardens section of Queens around 4 a.m. on Sept. 2, 2011. Prosecutors said Shane Jaggarnauth, then 23, entered his parents' bedroom with an accomplice while the couple slept. His father, Sugrim Jaggarnauth, 64, was shot in the forehead at close range. His mother was 56.
About four minutes after his mother called for help, Jaggarnauth placed a separate 911 call, according to CBS 2. He reported that he had been shot and that both of his parents were dead. He was treated for a shoulder wound that did not threaten his life.
Prosecutors said Jaggarnauth arranged the robbery and then attempted to make the shooting deaths appear to be a failed push-in robbery. They said he directed the accomplice to shoot him in the shoulder as part of that plan. At trial, prosecutors also said his parents had stopped supporting him financially and that his mother had learned he was taking money from her bank account.
Jaggarnauth pleaded not guilty, maintaining that intruders had attacked the family. A jury convicted him of first-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon after deliberating for less than four hours, according to QNS.
In July 2014, Justice Gregory Lasak of state Supreme Court in Queens sentenced Jaggarnauth, then 26, to life in prison without parole for the shooting deaths of his parents.
