Newark Police Lt. John Formisano was wearing his police uniform when he followed and shot his fleeing wife to death in the middle of their quiet neighborhood, according to a 911 caller who said she saw it all.

“A man just shot his wife in front of my house,” the woman told the police dispatcher, according to a recording of the call. “You gotta hurry up because she’s dying in front of my house, please.”

She said the shooter was a Newark cop who lived a few houses down.

“He shot her. I saw him. I saw him through my window,” she said.

Newark police Lt. John Formisano (left) is accused of killing his estranged wife Christie Solaro Formisano in a shooting at the home they shared in Jefferson, Morris County on Sunday, July 14, 2019.

The Morris County Prosecutor’s Office released the two recordings Monday in response to a records request. The office refused to release a third 911 call, arguing among other reasons that it is too chilling to release. “Morbid curiosity alone, not transparency, would be served with the release of this recording,” Assistant Prosecutor Thomas C. Schmid wrote in his response.

Formisano, 49, is charged with murder, attempted murder and endangering the welfare of his two children, but he has so far avoided court because he remains hospitalized for mental health issues. He had filed for divorce from his wife, Christie Solaro Formisano, but the proceedings were ongoing, records show.

Authorities said Formisano went to Solaro Formisano’s house in the Oak Ridge area of town around 11:20 p.m. that night.

While their two children were in the home, the prosecutor’s office said, Formisano shot and wounded both his wife and her boyfriend. When Solaro Formisano fled down the street and went to a door for help, Formisano followed and shot her dead, a neighbor told NJ Advance Media.

The residents of that house called 911 and begged a dispatcher to send help because Solaro Formisano was “dying or dead.”

“My wife saw him in his car in his police uniform and he shot his ex-wife,” one caller said. When the dispatcher asked him if Formisano was still in the area, the caller said he didn’t know.

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After receiving information that Formisano might be in Livingston, police there took him into custody in a parking lot and turned him over to the Jefferson Township police department, authorities said.

He was taken to the psychiatric unit of St. Clare’s hospital in Boonton and remains hospitalized with mental health issues, according to his attorney.

Anthony J. Iacullo said his client continues to undergo “psychological treatment and observation at this time.”

“When and if he is well enough to appear in court, he will do so at that time,” Iacullo said. “Until then, the focus of the defense is to allow the medical personnel to do their job and hopefully return John to the way he was before this incident.”

Staff writers Noah Cohen and Anthony Attrino contributed to this story.

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