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.
The video of the incident on June 11 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 just after 1 a.m. when he saw a man and a woman acting strangely, Sheriff Chad Bianco said in the video. As the deputy tries to talk to them, the couple — identified as Eric John Nourani, 32, and Jennifer Rose Dobbins, 30 — run behind a building. Alternate follows. When he catches up with them, the video from his body-worn camera showshe is attacked by Nourani.
“Kill him! Kill him!” Nourani repeats to Dobbins during the attack.
Eric John Nourani is charged with, among other things, murder and attempted murder of a peace officer. Jennifer Rose Dobbins was fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy.
(Riverside County Sheriff’s Department)
The deputy is on top of Nourani on the ground, his hand on the man’s neck, as Dobbins grabs his arms and calls out over and over, “In the name of Jesus, I rebuke you.”
About two minutes into the fight, Dobbins begins kicking the deputy while struggling with Nourani, and the deputy fires at Dobbins, killing her.
Dobbins screams after she is shot and is seen lying several meters 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 tried to take the deputy’s gun. In the video, as Nourani struggles with the deputy, he yells, “Get the gun!”
Both men are out of breath and gasping but still grappling 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, mayhem and resisting an officer with violence. Even if the deputy fired the gun, Norani could be charged with murder under the state’s accomplice liability for aggravated murder statute.
The California Department of Justice is investigating the deputy-involved shooting.