Court record: Woman jumped from car to escape man who said he was on fentanyl

A woman who called 9-1-1 was heard crying and pleading with her boyfriend — who later said he had taken about 20 fentanyl pills — to let her out of the car he was driving erratically, court documents show.

That was shortly before Debra Murrieta jumped — losing her life — from the car her boyfriend William Nathaniel Holloway was driving to Mount Lemmon Saturday evening.

The interim complaint filed in Pima County Consolidated Justice Court gives the following account:

Fifty-four-year-old Murrieta called 9-1-1 at 6:23 p.m. saying Holloway was driving erratically and wouldn’t let her out of the car. She was also heard pointing out parking areas to Holloway on the way, which he ignored as he kept driving.

She said she was scared and that he “was going to kill her.”

Pima County deputies caught up with the car after the call and Holloway “failed to pull over and ignored the code equipment” as deputies sounded sirens. He evaded the road spikes deployed by law enforcement.

At 6:50 p.m., Murrieta jumped out and onto the road, and deputies stopped the chase to tend to her. She was taken to a local hospital where she died.

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Holloway, who kept going up the mountain, was “stopped at high risk” and taken into custody at 7:20 p.m..

Deputies said they found signs he was impaired, and drug paraphernalia inside the car. Holloway later said he had ingested about 20 fentanyl pills or “blues,” the court records say.

The Drug Enforcement Administration website says “two milligrams of fentanyl can be lethal depending on a person’s body size, tolerance and past usage.” The National Health Service, UK, says fentanyl “tablets contain 100 micrograms to 800 micrograms” of fentanyl, and that 1,000 micrograms equals one milligram.

Holloway told officers he was still medically recovering from a wreck where he collided with a light pole and was charged with a DUI. He had “constricted pupils, low raspy speech, raised taste buds (and) red bloodshot eyes.”

He told law officers he was taking Murrieta up the mountain to “talk” since they were having “relationship issues.” He denied being aware of law enforcement’s attempts to pull him over but agreed that she had been asking him to pull over.

Holloway, 36, faces charges of of first-degree murder, domestic violence kidnapping and unlawful flight from law enforcement, the Sheriff’s Department has said.