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LOS ANGELES – The 911 call made moments after the fatal shooting of Bell Gardens Mayor Daniel Crespo was released Tuesday.

In an emergency phone call made by Crespo’s 19-year-old son, he told a dispatcher his mother had shot his father and insisted it was not his mother’s fault, KTLA reported.

LISTEN: Raw Audio of Crespo Jr.’s 911 Call to Bell Gardens Police

“My parents got in an argument and there were shots fired,” Daniel Crespo Jr. can be heard saying. “It wasn’t my mom’s fault. She was defending herself.”

The teen, who was crying, only intermittently answered the dispatcher’s questions, if “your mom shot your father.”

“Yes,” the son responds.

“He hurt me. He hurt me,” Daniel Crespo Jr. said. “He’s on the floor dying, OK? He hurt me.”

Levette Crespo, 43, killed the 45-year-old mayor on September 30 at their Bell Gardens home, authorities said. She was taken into custody, but was later released and has not been charged in the shooting death of her husband.

Attorneys for the wife said the couple masked their difficult home life, including an abusive relationship and infidelity.

Crespo was elected in 2001 and was a longtime employee of the county probation department.

A vigil at City Hall was held in his honor on Friday. Crespo was remembered as a generous person who emerged from a tough childhood in Brooklyn to become the mayor of a small Los Angeles-area city.