Harrowing footage shows a 27-year-old woman telling officers about the abuse she suffered at the hands of her husband - less than six months before he was charged with shooting her dead.

Kimberley Nicole Perkins, 27, appears in a body cam video released Friday, telling police Sam Clark Jr once grabbed her by the throat, twisted her leg so hard she thought it would break and held a loaded gun to her head.

She was found dead in a canal in St Louis Parish, Louisiana, in March this year. Clark Jr, who is currently facing a murder charge, confessed that he had shot her according to the sheriff.

He was arrested in October 2015 and charged with domestic abuse after Perkins told police her situation was so distressing she had stopped feeling scared for her life.

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Kimberley Nicole Perkins (right), 27, appears in a body cam video released Friday, telling police Sam Clark Jr (left) once grabbed her by the throat, twisted her leg and held a loaded gun to her head

Perkins (pictured in the body cam footage) was found dead in March with two gunshot wounds to her head. Clark Jr admitted he had shot her, according to the sheriff

'He put a gun to my head the other night. He put a loaded gun to my head and threatened to shoot me,' Perkins, a mother of four, says in the body cam video published byLive 5 News while holding a baby against her chest.

'And you know what? I wasn't scared. I was ready for it to happen.'

Clark Jr placed the first domestic violence call that night in October 2015, telling the dispatcher he needed someone to come to their home in Livonia because his wife had money in her pocket, which she was 'not supposed to have'.

'I'v got $500 missing out of my cabinet. Okay? And I want to find out what's going on,' he can be heard saying in a recording published on Live 5 News.

As Perkins tries to leave the house, he addresses her while still on the phone with the dispatcher.

'You're not leaving. You're not leaving. Kim, don't leave this house. Kim, don't leave this house because you know you're doing wrong,' Clark Jr says.

Police responded to the call that night.

One of them, Sergeant John Thibodaux, wore the body cam that taped Perkins's shocking statement.

It taped the row between the couple, during which Clark Jr points accusingly at his wife and says he wants her to get a drug test.

'I want to find out where my money is going,' he adds.

Perkins then appears, telling Thibodaux away from her husband: 'He grabbed me around my throat and choked me and twisted my leg to where it almost broke, I'm telling you.'

Perkins (pictured right in a Facebook shot) told officers in October 2015 that she felt 'ready for it to happen' when Clark Jr (pictured left in a mug shot) held a gun to her head

When Thibodaux asks her when that happened, she said: 'Tonight.'

Perkins told police Clark Jr kept the key to the gun cabinet and that she didn't have access to it, Live 5 News reported.

The row then escalates as the baby begins to cry.

Officers can be seen telling Clark Jr he cannot force his wife to take a drug test and that he cannot control her.

Perkins told Thibodaux once inside the house that her husband had put a loaded gun to her head the previous night.

That's when she said she had stopped feeling scared.

Perkins declined to press charges against Clark Jr that night after officers asked her if she wanted to do so, Live 5 News wrote.

But she had physical marks on her neck corresponding to the abuse she had just described.

'It's pretty obvious she was grabbed around the throat,' an officer says in the video.

'It is a f****** hickie,' Clark Jr replies. 'It's two of them, one on the back of her neck and another on the front of her neck.'

The officer then asks: 'Okay what about the other day when you put a gun to her head?'

'I ain't put no f****** gun to her head,' Clark Jr says.

Clark Jr (pictured) was charged with domestic abuse that night and later received a six-month sentence. He now faces a second-degree murder charge in his wife's death

The physical marks made it possible for them to arrest Clark Jr, as Louisiana legislation enables law enforcement to protect people they think are victims of domestic abuse.

'Why are you all arresting him?' Perkins asks in the video.

A hearing was needed before a bond could be set for Clark Jr, as per Louisiana legislation.

But Perkins changed her story during the hearing, Live 5 News reported, and said she wanted her husband to be released.

Clark Jr's charges were reduced from felonies to misdemeanors and his bond was set at $5,000.

He received a six months sentence, the maximum penalty, earlier this month, Live 5 News wrote at the time.

Clark Jr, who has been charged with second-degree murder following Perish's death, remains in custody at St Landry Parish Jail.

An autopsy determined that Perish died of two gunshot wounds to the head in March.

Her husband admitted he had shot her according to St Landry Parish Sheriff Bobby Guidroz, the Times-Picayune wrote.

She had written on Facebook the night before: 'If I die, say Sam Jr' - her husband's first name.

'She was a piece of property to him,' Lieutenant Aaron Biddy, one of the officers who responded to the October 2015 call, told Live 5 News.