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Oliver Helbig/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) 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.

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