Man Reportedly Shoots Wife Through Garage Roof, Severing Her Spine, Before Abandoning Her at the Hospital: Video

Mar. 15, 2025

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A man in Australia who allegedly shot his wife insisted “he just found her like this” after dropping her off at the hospital with life-changing injuries, it’s been reported.

On Wednesday, Feb. 5, Kamal El Jamal, 35, pleaded guilty to charges including recklessly causing actual bodily harm at Downing Centre District Court in Sydney after reportedly shooting his wife, Georgina Vlahos, through his garage ceiling as she lay in bed at the Condell Park home on Jan. 12, 2023, per theSydney Morning Heraldand theHerald Sun.

In the clip, paramedics attended the scene with a stretcher, helping the victim before El Jamal “vanished down the street,” per theSydney Morning Herald.

Nearly four weeks later, on Feb. 10, 2023, theAustralian Broadcasting Corporation(ABC) reported that El Jamal had been arrested after tactical operations police allegedly found him “in the roof cavity of a home on Doris Street” in the New South Wales suburb of Picnic Point.

On the day in 2023 that El Jamal left his wife at the hospital, he allegedly told parademics “help her, you’ve got to come and help her,” insisting he “just found her like this,” per theHerald Sun.

During Wednesday’s court hearing, the suspect “pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm to Vlahos whilst being reckless to causing her actual bodily harm, and using a pistol without a license or permit,” per theSydney Morning Herald.

Per the outlet, the court heard from Crown Prosecutor Emma Blizard that the victim — who suffered multiple injuries, including to her spinal cord — will never walk again.

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Blizard added that police had found 10 bullet holes at the scene, but it’s not known if they are all from the day the victim was shot, according to the publication.

TheHerald Sunreported that the victim’s injuries included significant damage to her liver, adding that the shots fired through the ceiling, floorboards of the main bedroom and the mattress, severed her spine. Court documents also stated that the victim told paramedics she “didn’t remember anything” when she got to the hospital, adding that she “could not feel her legs.”

El Jamal has now completed five months at the Mudgee Private Hospital Rehabilitation Centre, and has “expressed a strong desire to finally address his drug problem,” the suspect’s barrister Ertunc Ozen said, per the publication.

“There are two months [of hospital treatment] left … this man needs, as he said in his own words, two months more, and I believe it is in both his interests and the community’s interest that he completes that rehabilitation program,” the lawyer added, according to the outlet.

Ozen insisted that despite leaving the victim at the hospital, there was “very clear evidence that this man, having become aware of the gravity of the result of his actions, did what he could to get his partner the necessary assistance,” per theSydney Morning Herald.

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The suspect was taken into custody on Thursday, Feb. 6 after Chief Judge Sarah Huggett said the evidence for him to remain on bail ahead of his sentencing was “vague,” theSydney Morning Heraldreported.

El Jamal is due to be sentenced at a later date.

source: people.com