Unarmed 16 Year Old Latino boy Shot Dead by Kern County Officer after Chase

Mary Millan is struggling to understand why her 16-year-old son Manuel Ayon wound up being shot to death by a Kern County Sheriff''s deputy.

"They didn't have to kill my son. They shot him a lot of times and they even shot him in the face," said Millan.

The Delano teen allegedly rammed his car into a K-9 handler and struck the deputy in the leg of Deputy Doug Jauch. Jauch fired his weapon hitting the car. Ayon drove away for one more block. According to witnesses, another deputy Joe Weiss rear-ended Ayon's car and spun it around into a fence at 14th and Belmont in Delano.

Sheriff's investigators say Ayon reached into the floorboard area near the passenger side. Weiss feared for his safety and fired several times at Ayon.

"If there's reason to believe they may be armed and they reach into an area that their mannerisms in the area is consistent with going for a weapon, in certain circumstances than it's reasonable to use deadly force to stop that threat," said Kern County Sheriff Sgt. Ed Komin.

But Ayon's mother disputes the official version. "They say he was reaching for something like a gun, there's no gun in there," said Millan.

Manuel Ayon was attending a Continuation School and was about to become a father. His 15-year-old girlfriend Eliana Alaniz is 5 months pregnant and she just got some big news on the day Ayon was killed.

"I just found out today it's a boy," said Alaniz.

The family says it needs help to bury their son. Donations can be made at any Bank of America branch. [MORE]