There is nothing police could have done to prevent the killing of Tamara Wilson-Seidle on an Asbury Park street by her newly divorced husband, Neptune police Sgt. Philip Seidle, in June 2015.

So maintained acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni at a press conference called to present the long-deferred results of his office’s investigation into the lead-up and police response to the daylight shooting. We disagree.

The press conference was a 90-minute exercise in spin, punctuated by a number of recommended policy changes which, if implemented long ago, may well have prevented Tamara Wilson-Seidle’s death.

The report seemed aimed at not only trying to limit the damage in a civil lawsuit likely to be filed by the nine Seidle children against the Neptune and Asbury Park police departments, but to render Gramiccioni and the Prosecutor’s Office entirely blameless.

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Gramiccioni’s report, and its conclusions, were tainted from the start. He never should have handled the investigation into the police response in the first place. The unit in his office that signed off on allowing Seidle to have his service weapon returned to him in 2013 after the first of his two suspensions is the same unit that investigated the Seidle shooting. Casting further doubt on the impartiality of the investigation is the fact that two of the investigators previously had worked for the Asbury Park Police Department.

More to the point, why would Gramiccioni want to supply any incriminating details in his report that could increase the payout in a wrongful death suit?

Gramiccioni’s office certainly wasn’t aware of all 21 instances in which the Seidles called the police for assistance over the years — seven of which were classified as domestic violence reports. And Gramiccioni said it wasn’t privy to the 2013 divorce filing in which Tamara Wilson-Seidle said her then-husband pointed a gun at her head and on another occasion kicked her in the stomach while she was pregnant. The complaint also said he punched her in the face on her birthday.

His office also apparently was unaware of an incident in 2012 in which Seidle’s then-girlfriend called Tinton Falls police to report that he had put his hands around her neck and pushed her following an argument.

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“None of these matters resulted in the filing of criminal charges or the issuance of a restraining order, thus triggering mandatory disarming and notification to my office,” Gramiccioni said. Nonetheless, there were plenty of red flags in the Seidle marital history to suggest Philip Seidle should not have been trusted with a gun and should have been encouraged to find a different line of work.

Most distressing of all was Gramiccioni’s claim that nothing could have been done to save the life of Tamara Wilson-Seidle after her ex-husband fired the first volley of shots at her in her car. But police officers on the scene had no way of knowing the extent of her injuries. And they seemed more concerned with saving Philip Seidle from himself than getting aid to Tamara. It was their responsibility to disarm Seidle immediately in order to provide his ex-wife with prompt medical attention. They failed to do so.

Gramiccioni argued that under state Attorney General guidelines, police officers are prohibited from firing on anyone threatening suicide, as Seidle ostensibly did by holding a gun to his head. In the meantime, he was able to move to the other side of the car and fire additional shots.

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Seidle wasn’t just a potential suicide. He was someone who had just fired several bullets into a victim. He shouldn’t have been allowed to fire a second time.

Gramiccioni said proper police policies and procedures had largely been followed in the years leading up the shooting. He conceded mistakes had been made by two officers at the shooting scene, but none contributed to Tamara’s death.

We think her death may have been preventable, if not at the shooting scene, then in the months and years before the shooting occurred. If police had been more focused on protecting an abused woman than protecting one of their own, Tamara might be alive today.