Inside an Orange County courtroom Thursday, prosecutor Sean Wiggins played two snippets of a lengthy audio file that began recording moments after detectives believe Lt. Eloilda Shea was shot dead by her estranged husband.

The people who filled the gallery, which included the late lieutenant’s family, sat silently as they listened to the first excerpt taken from the beginning of the recording, which captured the sounds of rustling and someone moving around the room over the noise of an air conditioning unit. Later on in the recording, Anthony Shea, Eloilda’s husband, can be heard entering the room. A 50-second silence followed until he began speaking hysterically to a 911 dispatcher.

“I’m doing CPR right now. Yes, she’s shot! I need you guys now,” Shea said. “… She’s a lieutenant with

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