A new video captures a heated battle between a Riverside County sheriff’s deputy and a man and woman before the cop fatally shoots the lady.
The video from the June 11 incident showed a four-minute battle before help came. The unidentified deputy was in Corona’s 1000 block of West 6th Avenue just after 1 a.m. when he noticed a man and a woman acting strangely, according to Sheriff Chad Bianco in the video. When the deputy tries to speak with them, Eric John Nourani, 32, and Jennifer Rose Dobbins, 30, flee behind a building. The deputy then follows suit. When he catches up with them, Nourani attacks him, according to video footage from his body-worn camera.
“Kill him! “Kill him!” Throughout the onslaught, Nourani repeats something to Dobbins.
The deputy is on top of Nourani on the ground, his hand on his throat, while Dobbins grabs his arms and repeatedly says, “In the name of Jesus, I rebuke you.”
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About two minutes into the fight, Dobbins begins to kick the deputy while he struggles with Nourani, and the deputy fires on Dobbins, killing her.
Dobbins cries out after being shot and is seen lying several feet away as the men continue to fight. “Please help me. “I’m scared, Eric,” she admits. Shortly after the incident in June, sheriff’s officials stated that Nourani attempted to steal the deputy’s firearm. In the video, while struggling with the deputy, Nourani yells, “Get the gun!”
Both guys are out of breath and gasping, but continue to wrestle when passersby arrive and pull Nourani away more than four minutes into the fight.
Dobbins was transported to a local hospital, where she was declared dead.
Nourani was arrested on accusations of murder, attempted murder of a peace officer, mayhem, and violently resisting an officer. Although the deputy fired the gun, Norani may be prosecuted with murder under the state’s accomplice culpability for criminal murder law.
The California Department of Justice is investigating the deputy-involved shooting.