New video shows a dramatic fight between a Riverside County sheriff's deputy and a man and woman before the deputy fatally shoots the woman.
Video of the June 11 incident shows the fight lasted four minutes before help arrived.
The deputy, who has not been identified, was in the 1000 block of West 6th Avenue in Corona shortly after 1 a.m. when he saw a man and woman acting strangely, Sheriff Chad Bianco says in the video. When the deputy tries to talk to them, the couple — identified as Eric John Nourani, 32, and Jennifer Rose Dobbins, 30 — run behind a building. The deputy follows them. When he catches up to them, his body camera video shows, he is attacked by Nourani.
“Kill him! Kill him!” Nourani repeats to Dobbins during the attack.
Eric John Nourani faces charges including murder and attempted murder of a law enforcement officer. Jennifer Rose Dobbins was shot and killed by a sheriff's deputy.
(Riverside County Sheriff's Department)
The deputy is on top of Nourani on the ground, with his hand on the man's throat, while Dobbins grabs his arms and screams over and over again: “In the name of Jesus, I rebuke you.”
About two minutes into the fight, Dobbins begins kicking the deputy as he struggles with Nourani, and the deputy shoots Dobbins, killing her.
Dobbins screams after being shot and is seen lying several feet away as the men continue to fight. “Help me, Eric, I’m scared,” she says.
Shortly after the June incident, sheriff's officials said Nourani was trying to grab the deputy's gun. In the video, as Nourani struggles with the deputy, he yells, “Take the gun!”
Both men are out of breath and panting, but still fighting when bystanders arrive and pull Nourani away, more than four minutes after the fight began.
Dobbins was taken to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
Nourani was charged with murder, attempted murder of a peace officer, maiming and violently resisting an officer. Although the officer fired the gun, Norani can be charged with murder under the state's law on accomplice liability in felony murder cases.
The California Department of Justice is investigating the officer-involved shooting.
