Last December, a NJ man was fatally shot during a carjacking at the Mall at Short Hills in Millburn, NJ. And now newly released 911 calls show that his wife was begging for an ambulance to arrive, telling the operator, "We called an ambulance a half an hour ago: Where is it?"

Dustin Friedland, 30, and his wife Jamie Schare Friedland were getting into their 2012 Range Rover, parked in a parking deck at the Mall at Short Hills, on Sunday night when he was confronted by two men. Friedland apparently struggled with the men before he was shot in the head. The carjackers then forced his wife out of the car and then drove away with the vehicle. Police later found the car abandoned in Newark. Friedland died hours later at a hospital hours later.

The Star-Ledger reports: "Eighteen minutes passed before the Millburn-Short Hills Volunteer First Aid squad reached the parking deck where the 30-year-old Hoboken attorney lay bleeding around 9 p.m. Dec. 15, according to Millburn Police Chief Gregory Weber. Then, more time passed because the ambulance was unable to fit under the parking deck’s ceiling, forcing first responders to roll a stretcher up an entrance ramp to Friedland."

Friedland's wife is told by a dispatcher, "They’re at the mall," but the distraught woman yells, "Give me a time!"

Weber also told the Star-Ledger it "was not clear whether the ambulance was responding from the squad’s headquarters, which is four miles from the mall, or from somewhere else. Millburn police officers normally patrol the mall [and] officers were at the scene shortly after Friedland was shot."

While it's unclear whether a speedier response would have impacted Friedland's condition, WABC 7 reports: "Eyewitness News drove from the ambulance company depot to the mall Monday night. We drove the speed limit when we could and stopped at red lights and stop signs, something the ambulance wouldn't have to do, and it took roughly half the ambulance's 18 minutes - nine minutes and six seconds."

Four men were arrested for the fatal shooting; all have pleaded not guilty.