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Ellen Moynihan, Leonard Greene

NYC 911 dispatcher handles call about man fatally shot in noise dispute, not realizing victim is her husband

NEW YORK — When a Bronx man was shot to death by his upstairs neighbor over a long-simmering noise dispute, it was the mortally wounded man’s wife, a 911 dispatcher, who relayed the information to her supervisor — without realizing who the victim was.

“The girl who was dispatching, she said, ‘Can you give the supervisor this job?’ ” Junita Reed-St. Clair, who was finishing her shift just as her 39-year-old husband, Dillon St. Clair, was killed in a quarrel with their neighbor, explained to the Daily News.

“So I gave the number of the job, not knowing that it was my husband. I spoke to [my husband] maybe an hour or two before.”

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