Body camera footage released in police shooting of woman who called 911 for alleged domestic incident

Niani Finlayson, 27, was shot and killed after making a domestic violence call.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department released body camera footage on Friday of a deputy-involved shooting of a 27-year-old woman after they entered her home responding to a domestic violence call that she made.

Niani Finlayson was allegedly shot and killed in her home in Lancaster, California, after an officer fired four shots at her on Dec. 4, the LASD said. She called the police because she claimed that her boyfriend would not leave her alone, according to an LASD statement.

"It's so unfair that we have to live our lives without Niani Finlayson," Tracie Hall, Finlayson's mother, told ABC News. "That was my best friend. I'm going to miss her so much. I miss her already."

In the 911 call made by Finlayson for police to assist her, audio of which was released by LASD, Finlayson can be heard yelling for someone to get their hands off of her. She told the dispatcher she needed assistance getting a man out of her home.

Hall told ABC News that Finlayson's daughter informed her that the estranged boyfriend choked Finlayson and would not get off her after she repeatedly demanded for him to. When Finlayson's daughter tried to help her mother, the man grabbed the 9-year-old and forcefully threw her against a nearby dresser, according to Hall.