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After the shot was fired, the deputy continued to battle with the person earlier than assist arrives, the video exhibits. The man, 32-year-old Eric John Nourani of San Diego, has since been charged with homicide, tried homicide of a peace officer, mayhem and resisting an officer with violence, officers stated.
At one level the girl, Jennifer Rose Dobbins, 30, of Imperial Beach, referred to Nourani as her husband.
The California Attorney General’s Office is main the investigation into the taking pictures, as state regulation requires for police killings of unarmed civilians.
About 1:10 a.m. on June 11, 2024, the deputy, who has not been recognized, tried to talk with Nourani and Dobbins after observing them “displaying uncommon conduct” in a car parking zone within the 1000 block of West Sixth Street, Sheriff Chad Bianco says within the critical-incident video that features the body-worn digicam pictures and was launched on Thursday, Aug. 15.
The sheriff didn’t elaborate on the conduct. Whether the deputy believed the pair was committing a criminal offense was not disclosed by the division.
The deputy stopped his patrol automobile and bought out. While talking with them, the pair ran throughout Sixth and went behind a small enterprise’s constructing. When the pursuing deputy rounded the nook, Nourani attacked him, the video exhibits.
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“Kill him! Kill him!” Nourani repeats in the course of the assault, whereas Dobbins says again and again: “In the title of Jesus, I rebuke you!”
The deputy will get on high of Nourani, who’s on his again, with a hand on the suspect’s neck. Dobbins grabs on the deputy’s proper arm.
“Get off my husband!” she says.
“He’s a demon,” Nourani says.
“I’m going to (expletive) eliminate you!” she says. “You’re going to hell.”
The deputy tells Nourani to not attain for his gun. But quickly Nourani yells, “Keep preventing!”
Dobbins is seen kicking the deputy.
More than two minutes into the combat, the deputy says, “I’m going black.”
Seconds later, the deputy pulls out his gun and fires one shot, will get up and tries to again away from Nourani and Dobbins. Just earlier than the shot, precise actions are exhausting to discern.
“Help me,” Dobbins says. “Eric, I’m scared.”
Dobbins is seen mendacity a brief distance away as Nourani once more assaults the deputy.
The second a part of the brawl ensues for one more two minutes, with Nourani standing up and showing to battle for the gun with the deputy.
“Get him, he’s stealing my gun!” the deputy yells as a very good Samaritan, carrying a yellow vest and shining a flashlight, arrives and pulls Nourani away and takes him to the bottom.
Dobbins was taken to a hospital, the place she died. The deputy was hospitalized with minor accidents.
Asked whether or not Nourani and Dobbins could have been inebriated or medication, Riverside County sheriff’s officers declined to remark, citing the continued Department of Justice investigation.
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