An Illinois sheriff’s deputy has been charged with first degree murder and fired after he shot a woman in the head who called 911 for a possible intruder.

Sean Grayson, 30, pleaded not guilty to the murder charge, along with aggravated battery with a firearm, and official misconduct, the Associated Press reported.

The Sangamon County Sheriff’s Office released body camera footage on Monday from the deputy who responded to Sonya Massey’s home on July 6 with Grayson, because Grayson didn’t turn on his camera until he’d already shot the 36-year-old Black woman.

The video confirmed an earlier account of the fatal shooting provided by prosecutors.

Massey called 911 to report a suspected prowler, and Grayson and the other deputy responded just before 1 a.m. They walked around the house, found a black SUV with broken windows in the driveway, and then walked to the door and knocked.

Massey took several minutes to open the door and told the deputies, “Don’t hurt me,” when she did.

During the conversation at the door, Massey appeared confused but said she needed help. She said she didn’t know who owned the SUV.

Once inside, Massey went through her purse to find identification so the deputies could make a report. While there, Grayson pointed to a pot sitting on a lit burner on the stove.

“We don’t need a fire while we’re here,” Grayson said.

Massey went to the stove and moved the pot off the burner. She and Grayson appeared to laugh about the pan of “steaming hot water.” But one of the deputies backed away when Massey turned off the stove and picked up the pot, telling her he was getting away from the water, even though he wasn’t near it. Massey told the deputy, “I rebuke you in the name of Jesus,” prompting Grayson to shout, “You better f****** not or I swear to God I’ll f****** shoot you in your f****** face.” He immediately pulled his gun and demanded that she drop the pot.

Massey apologized, then ducked and raised the pot, still in her hands. Massey was in the kitchen, Grayson in the living room separated from the woman he shot to death by a divider between the two rooms.

“Drop the f****** pot!” The deputies yell, followed by three shots.

After he shot her, he told the other deputy not to bother with getting medical kit. “You can go get it, but that’s a headshot,” he said. “There’s nothing you can do , man.”

“She’s done,” he said.

Grayson tried to explain away the three gunshots. “Dude, I’m not taking f****** boiling water to the f****** head,” Grayson says. “And look, it came right to our feet, too,” referring to where the water flowed after he shot Massey and she dropped the pot.

Massey was still breathing, and the other deputy told him, “We can at least try to stop the bleeding.”

When responding police arrived Grayson told them that “She had boiling water and came at me with boiling water. She said she was going to rebuke me in the name of Jesus and came at me with boiling water.”

The video did not show Massey moving toward the deputy or even moving past the counter between the kitchen and living room.

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, representing Massey’s family, called Grayson’s justification for the shooting “revisionist” and “disingenuous.”

“She needed a helping hand. She did not need a bullet to her face,” Crump said of Massey.

Crump noted that Massey had been treated for mental illness and that she invoked God in the beginning of her encounter with the deputies, when she asked for her Bible.

Grayson is being held without bond and faces 45 years to life on the murder charge, 6 to 30 years for battery, and 2 to 5 years for misconduct. His attorney declined comment after the video was released.

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[Featured image: Just before the fatal shots are fired/Illinois State Police via the AP]