Friend Overhead 'Chilling' Exchange Before Bergen Killing, Report Says

A friend said she overhead a “chilling” exchange between Suzanne Bardzell and the man who is accused of stabbing her to death in her Midland Park driveway, The Record reported.

“Oh, my God, no!”

“I’m sorry to have to do this to you.”

That was what Bardzell’s friend heard Bardzell and her ex-boyfriend Arthur Lomando say to one another a friend said in a 911 call the friend made the day of the stabbing, Oct. 22, the report states.

The friend was talking to the 48-year-old mother of two boys and having a normal conversation as Bardzell drove home from her Teaneck teaching job and was ”stunned” as she listened, the report said.

“Somebody’s hurting her,” the friend told the dispatcher on the six-and-a-half minute 911 call.

Lomando is accused of stabbing Bardzell to death. He jumped in front of a moving subway car in New York City in an apparent suicide attempt hours after the stabbing, police said. He was taken to a Harlem hospital where both legs were amputated in an attempt to save his life. He has been charged with murder.

Another of Bardzell’s friends said recently that she feared for her life so much before the stabbing she said 12 times ”he’s gonna kill me.”

Bardzell took out a restraining order against Lomando Oct. 8, which he allegedly violated four times the next day, Midland Park Police Chief Michael Powderley said in an NJ.com report. The restraining order was the result of several domestic violence incidents, including several where Lomando was allegedly spotted in or near Bardzell’s home or in the neighborhood, the Record’s report states.

Lomando allegedly broke into Bardzell’s house and threatened to kill her with scissors Oct. 5 and Lomando’s was reportedly seen in or around Bardzell’s neighborhood around that time as well, according to the report.

Midland Park police officers were assigned to watch the residence.

Lomando was fired from his job as a New York City police officer in 2004 after several misconduct and mental health issues were documented.

Lomando’s mother said recently that her son had been dealing with depression “for some time,” and had seen therapists and psychologists for help dealing with it and Lomando’s father said the couple ”fought like cats and dogs,” Newsday reported.

(Pictured: Arthur Lomando and the victim, Suzanne Bardzell, 48)