“Kill him!”: Video shows disturbing attack on Southern California deputy

A new video shows a dramatic struggle between a Riverside County sheriff's deputy and a man and woman before the deputy shoots the woman.

Video of the June 11 incident shows that the fight lasted four minutes before help arrived.

The deputy, whose identity has not been released, was in the 1000 block of West 6th Avenue in Corona just after 1 a.m. when he noticed a man and woman acting strangely, Sheriff Chad Bianco says in the video. When the deputy tries to talk to them, the two – identified as Eric John Nourani, 32, and Jennifer Rose Dobbins, 30 – run behind a building. The deputy follows them. When he catches up with them, he is attacked by Nourani, video from his body-worn camera shows.

“Kill him! Kill him!” Nourani repeats to Dobbins during the attack.

The deputy lies on top of Nourani with his hand on the man's throat while Dobbins grabs him by the arms and repeatedly screams, “In the name of Jesus, I rebuke you.”

About two minutes into the fight, Dobbins begins kicking the deputy while he is wrestling with Nourani, and the deputy shoots Dobbins, killing her.

Dobbins screams after being shot. She can be seen lying several meters away as the men continue to fight. “Help me. Eric, I'm scared,” she says.

Shortly after the incident in June, sheriff's officials said Nourani tried to take the deputy's gun. In the video, Nourani screams “Get me the gun!” while wrestling with the deputy.

Both men are out of breath and panting but still wrestling when bystanders appear 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 arrested on suspicion of murder, attempted murder of a police officer, assault and resisting an officer with violence. Even though the officer fired the gun, Norani can be charged with murder under the state's accessory to murder law.

The California Department of Justice is investigating the shooting, which involved a deputy sheriff.