Man kills baby and is shot to death by police
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Authorities identified the Turlock man eyewitnesses saw punch and stomp a toddler to death on a darkened country road before being fatally shot by police as Sergio Casian Aguilar aka human piece of shit, the Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department announced today.
The toddler is believed to be Aguilar's 2-year-old son, according to the sheriff department's news release.
Eyewitnesses reported coming upon Aguilar attacking the boy on Saturday night. They tried to stop him as he swung and slammed the child into the asphalt behind his parked four-door Toyota pickup.
Investigators spent Father's Day trying to understand and cope with the savage attack on Bradbury Road, 10 miles west of Turlock near cow pastures and dairy farms.
The boy's beating left police and rescue workers badly shaken, said Deputy Royjindar Singh. "Why would somebody do this?" Singh said.
"In the shadows and light it looked like he had hit an animal," said Dan Robinson, chief of the Crows Landing Volunteer Fire Department, who came upon the chaos driving home from a late dinner in Turlock, in an interview with the Modesto Bee. "As we backed up again, I could see that he had blood on his arms. I could see that it was a small child."
Robinson jumped from his vehicle and confronted the man, who lunged at him. Robinson said the man wasn't screaming and wasn't loud, but was forceful, saying "demons" were in the boy.
"Give me the knife. Give me the knife," the man said as he grabbed for a pen in the fireman's front pocket.
"There was a total hollowness in his eyes," Robinson said, "like I could see right through to the back of his head."
An elderly couple was first on the scene, calling 911 about 10:15 p.m. to describe the terror unfolding before their eyes.
The man ripped the child out of a car seat in the back of a pickup truck, threw him to the ground and kicked and stomped him against the pavement, witnesses told deputies. At least three people yelled at the man and attempted to pull him off the boy, but were brushed back by the attacker.
Coroner's deputies believe they know the boy's name, but "due to the severity of his injuries making a visual identification is nearly impossible," Singh said.
The coroner's office will use DNA to confirm that the boy was Aguilar's son, according to the sheriff office's release. DNA samples were taken from Aguilar, the boy and the boy's mother.
Although DNA results can take up to six weeks to process, the coroner is pushing to get the results back in this case within a week.
A Stanislaus County sheriff's helicopter flying in the area on another matter arrived about six minutes after the initial 911 call.
Officers in the helicopter could see the man beating a child on the road. Because patrol deputies were still several minutes away, they decided to land in a field near the man's vehicle, Singh said.
The helicopter's tactical flight officer, a Modesto police officer, ran toward the suspect with his gun drawn, but he was unable to reach the roadway because of an electric and barbed wire fence, Singh said.
"When the flight officer first contacted the suspect and tried to get him to stop, the infant was on the ground and the suspect was kicking and stomping the child," Singh said. "The officer demanded that the man stop, but he just continued his assault."
The officer, who has not been identified, then shot the man, who was pronounced dead at the scene. The toddler was taken to Emanuel Medical Center in Turlock, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.
"Some of the key questions we're trying to answer is why this happened?" Singh said. "What was going on before the suspect left? Where was he going? Where had he been? What was going on in his life that day?"
Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson sent department employees an e-mail Sunday offering assistance to any staff member affected by the incident, Singh said.
"It does hit home, especially for the deputies with children and those officers in the helicopter that attempted to save the boy's life," he said. "This is one of the more violent scenes they've ever seen. It involves a victim who is defenseless and helpless. And it's Father's Day."
Nurse shaken
Nurse Isabelle Thomas, who lives a few hundred yards from the scene, was working at Emanuel Medical Center when her son called her with word something bad had happened. Soon she heard of the little boy who died 500 yards from her front door.
"I couldn't go to sleep," she said. "I couldn't rest without seeing it and all that blood. I couldn't believe all that blood."
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The toddler is believed to be Aguilar's 2-year-old son, according to the sheriff department's news release.
Eyewitnesses reported coming upon Aguilar attacking the boy on Saturday night. They tried to stop him as he swung and slammed the child into the asphalt behind his parked four-door Toyota pickup.
Investigators spent Father's Day trying to understand and cope with the savage attack on Bradbury Road, 10 miles west of Turlock near cow pastures and dairy farms.
The boy's beating left police and rescue workers badly shaken, said Deputy Royjindar Singh. "Why would somebody do this?" Singh said.
"In the shadows and light it looked like he had hit an animal," said Dan Robinson, chief of the Crows Landing Volunteer Fire Department, who came upon the chaos driving home from a late dinner in Turlock, in an interview with the Modesto Bee. "As we backed up again, I could see that he had blood on his arms. I could see that it was a small child."
Robinson jumped from his vehicle and confronted the man, who lunged at him. Robinson said the man wasn't screaming and wasn't loud, but was forceful, saying "demons" were in the boy.
"Give me the knife. Give me the knife," the man said as he grabbed for a pen in the fireman's front pocket.
"There was a total hollowness in his eyes," Robinson said, "like I could see right through to the back of his head."
An elderly couple was first on the scene, calling 911 about 10:15 p.m. to describe the terror unfolding before their eyes.
The man ripped the child out of a car seat in the back of a pickup truck, threw him to the ground and kicked and stomped him against the pavement, witnesses told deputies. At least three people yelled at the man and attempted to pull him off the boy, but were brushed back by the attacker.
Coroner's deputies believe they know the boy's name, but "due to the severity of his injuries making a visual identification is nearly impossible," Singh said.
The coroner's office will use DNA to confirm that the boy was Aguilar's son, according to the sheriff office's release. DNA samples were taken from Aguilar, the boy and the boy's mother.
Although DNA results can take up to six weeks to process, the coroner is pushing to get the results back in this case within a week.
A Stanislaus County sheriff's helicopter flying in the area on another matter arrived about six minutes after the initial 911 call.
Officers in the helicopter could see the man beating a child on the road. Because patrol deputies were still several minutes away, they decided to land in a field near the man's vehicle, Singh said.
The helicopter's tactical flight officer, a Modesto police officer, ran toward the suspect with his gun drawn, but he was unable to reach the roadway because of an electric and barbed wire fence, Singh said.
"When the flight officer first contacted the suspect and tried to get him to stop, the infant was on the ground and the suspect was kicking and stomping the child," Singh said. "The officer demanded that the man stop, but he just continued his assault."
The officer, who has not been identified, then shot the man, who was pronounced dead at the scene. The toddler was taken to Emanuel Medical Center in Turlock, where he was pronounced dead shortly after arrival.
"Some of the key questions we're trying to answer is why this happened?" Singh said. "What was going on before the suspect left? Where was he going? Where had he been? What was going on in his life that day?"
Stanislaus County Sheriff Adam Christianson sent department employees an e-mail Sunday offering assistance to any staff member affected by the incident, Singh said.
"It does hit home, especially for the deputies with children and those officers in the helicopter that attempted to save the boy's life," he said. "This is one of the more violent scenes they've ever seen. It involves a victim who is defenseless and helpless. And it's Father's Day."
Nurse shaken
Nurse Isabelle Thomas, who lives a few hundred yards from the scene, was working at Emanuel Medical Center when her son called her with word something bad had happened. Soon she heard of the little boy who died 500 yards from her front door.
"I couldn't go to sleep," she said. "I couldn't rest without seeing it and all that blood. I couldn't believe all that blood."
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Dad who killed toddler wasn't on drugs, report says
Toxicology tests negative; behavior still unexplained
By ROSALIO AHUMADA
Toxicology tests came back negative Thursday for the Turlock man who beat his young son to death last month, adding to the mystery of why a father would commit such a heinous act.
Sergio Casian Aguiar, 27, had no drugs or alcohol in his system that might help explain his behavior, said Kristi Ah You, Stanislaus County chief coroner.
Aguiar killed his 25-month-old son, Axel, on June 14, the night before Father's Day, on a dark country road 15 miles south of Modesto.
Confronted by a passer-by, Aguiar only stopped kicking the child when a Modesto police officer shot him in the forehead, killing him where he stood.
The boy was pronounced dead at Emanuel Medical Center in Turlock. It took DNA testing to positively identify him.
The crime's brutality shocked the community and generated reaction from around the world.
Investigators and co-workers said Aguiar had no criminal history or signs of mental illness, though witnesses on the night of the attack said Aguiar spoke of "demons" within his son.
Aguiar worked in the meat department at a FoodMaxx store in Turlock and had separated recently from his wife, Frances Lilian Casian, a kindergarten teacher in Delhi. Casian was in Southern California for the weekend when the attack unfolded on West Bradbury Road, authorities said.
Nothing, Casian told detectives, foretold the tragic events.
Phil Trompetter is a psychologist who spent 30 years working with law enforcement agencies in Stanislaus County, providing police and forensic psychology. He sold the police psychology portion of his downtown Modesto practice, but kept the forensic psychology element, continuing to evaluate defendants and suspects while serving as an expert witness in the courts.
Trompetter spoke Thursday about the case, but emphasized his hypothesis on Aguiar's actions was based on media reports.
"I don't want to sound like I'm diagnosing this guy," he said. "But it sounds like brief psychotic disorder ... a delusional belief that his son was possessed by demons."
Trompetter listed four conditions that could have led a father to act so violently toward his son:
# Substance-induced psychosis produced by narcotics such as methamphetamine, cocaine and PCP. This cause was ruled out by toxicology tests.
# Chronic mental illness. Aguiar's family, co-workers and investigators said there were no signs of mental illness.
# Delirium caused by a medical condition such as a seizure or long-term illness.
# Brief psychotic disorder.
Trompetter said the final diagnosis is not common, but it could explain an acute psychotic break happening without previous symptoms "out of the clear blue."
According to the Web site WebMD, brief psychotic disorder is a short-term illness with psychotic symptoms that often come on suddenly and last for less than one month, after which the person usually recovers completely.
"They got crazy and then they cleared up quickly," Trompetter said of people whom he's diagnosed with the disorder.
According to WebMD, some people might have recurrent episodes of psychotic symptoms, but it is rare.
The symptoms might include hallucinations; delusions; disorganized thinking; speech or language that doesn't make sense; unusual behavior; problems with memory; disorientation or confusion; changes in eating or sleeping habits; changes in energy level or weight; and the inability to make decisions.
According to WebMD, there are three basic forms:
# Brief psychotic disorder with obvious stressor occurs shortly after and often in response to a trauma or major stress, such as the death of a loved one, an accident, an assault or a natural disaster.
# Brief psychotic disorder without obvious stressor has no apparent trauma or stress that triggers the illness.
# Brief psychotic disorder with postpartum onset occurs in women, usually within four weeks of having a baby.
The disorder generally occurs first in early adulthood, 20s and 30s, and is more common in women than in men, according to WebMD.
Trompetter, however, could not recall a case of the disorder resulting in someone committing "such a heinous act of violence."
Bee staff writer Emilie Raguso contributed to this report.
Bee staff writer Rosalio Ahumada can be reached at [email protected] or 578-2394.
http://www.modbee.com/local/story/349797.html
Toxicology tests negative; behavior still unexplained
By ROSALIO AHUMADA
Toxicology tests came back negative Thursday for the Turlock man who beat his young son to death last month, adding to the mystery of why a father would commit such a heinous act.
Sergio Casian Aguiar, 27, had no drugs or alcohol in his system that might help explain his behavior, said Kristi Ah You, Stanislaus County chief coroner.
Aguiar killed his 25-month-old son, Axel, on June 14, the night before Father's Day, on a dark country road 15 miles south of Modesto.
Confronted by a passer-by, Aguiar only stopped kicking the child when a Modesto police officer shot him in the forehead, killing him where he stood.
The boy was pronounced dead at Emanuel Medical Center in Turlock. It took DNA testing to positively identify him.
The crime's brutality shocked the community and generated reaction from around the world.
Investigators and co-workers said Aguiar had no criminal history or signs of mental illness, though witnesses on the night of the attack said Aguiar spoke of "demons" within his son.
Aguiar worked in the meat department at a FoodMaxx store in Turlock and had separated recently from his wife, Frances Lilian Casian, a kindergarten teacher in Delhi. Casian was in Southern California for the weekend when the attack unfolded on West Bradbury Road, authorities said.
Nothing, Casian told detectives, foretold the tragic events.
Phil Trompetter is a psychologist who spent 30 years working with law enforcement agencies in Stanislaus County, providing police and forensic psychology. He sold the police psychology portion of his downtown Modesto practice, but kept the forensic psychology element, continuing to evaluate defendants and suspects while serving as an expert witness in the courts.
Trompetter spoke Thursday about the case, but emphasized his hypothesis on Aguiar's actions was based on media reports.
"I don't want to sound like I'm diagnosing this guy," he said. "But it sounds like brief psychotic disorder ... a delusional belief that his son was possessed by demons."
Trompetter listed four conditions that could have led a father to act so violently toward his son:
# Substance-induced psychosis produced by narcotics such as methamphetamine, cocaine and PCP. This cause was ruled out by toxicology tests.
# Chronic mental illness. Aguiar's family, co-workers and investigators said there were no signs of mental illness.
# Delirium caused by a medical condition such as a seizure or long-term illness.
# Brief psychotic disorder.
Trompetter said the final diagnosis is not common, but it could explain an acute psychotic break happening without previous symptoms "out of the clear blue."
According to the Web site WebMD, brief psychotic disorder is a short-term illness with psychotic symptoms that often come on suddenly and last for less than one month, after which the person usually recovers completely.
"They got crazy and then they cleared up quickly," Trompetter said of people whom he's diagnosed with the disorder.
According to WebMD, some people might have recurrent episodes of psychotic symptoms, but it is rare.
The symptoms might include hallucinations; delusions; disorganized thinking; speech or language that doesn't make sense; unusual behavior; problems with memory; disorientation or confusion; changes in eating or sleeping habits; changes in energy level or weight; and the inability to make decisions.
According to WebMD, there are three basic forms:
# Brief psychotic disorder with obvious stressor occurs shortly after and often in response to a trauma or major stress, such as the death of a loved one, an accident, an assault or a natural disaster.
# Brief psychotic disorder without obvious stressor has no apparent trauma or stress that triggers the illness.
# Brief psychotic disorder with postpartum onset occurs in women, usually within four weeks of having a baby.
The disorder generally occurs first in early adulthood, 20s and 30s, and is more common in women than in men, according to WebMD.
Trompetter, however, could not recall a case of the disorder resulting in someone committing "such a heinous act of violence."
Bee staff writer Emilie Raguso contributed to this report.
Bee staff writer Rosalio Ahumada can be reached at [email protected] or 578-2394.
http://www.modbee.com/local/story/349797.html
People around the area like to talk a lot of shit about us in South, West and East Modesto, about the criminals, gangsters, drug addicts and our lack of values and morality in these areas. But I'll tell you this, if Sergio was beating his son to death in the Southside he wouldn't have lived long enough to get shot by the cop.
man this story is fucking crazy...RIP to the baby boy definitely...whats real crazy is that the father was not on one...like some other guys in the thread said, when i first read this all i could think was "damn this is horrible" and "i bet dude was methed out"...just goes to show even though drugs, specifically crystal, can be very destructive....the most destructive thing is the human mind...very sad...
