him. Aguiar seemed calm and spoke of "demons" in the boy. He has no criminal history, authorities said. The 2-year-old boy later was pronounced dead at Emanuel Medical Center in Turlock. Deputy Rob Latapie, 39, flying a Sheriff's Department helicopter, turned a spotlight on the scene and saw Aguiar kicking the child "like a soccer ball" and immediately made the decision to land in a cow pasture. Ramar, the flight tactical officer, jumped from the helicopter and ran about 20 yards, his duty weapon drawn, before reaching a set of barbed-wire and electric fences. He commanded Aguiar to stop. Aguiar raised his middle finger and kicked the baby again. Ramar fired a single shot, killing Aguiar instantly, police said. "I'm proud of my flight officer," Latapie said Monday. "Making a shot like that, under those conditions, in a low-light, high-stress condition, is almost unheard of. There aren't a lot of people who can make a shot like that in daylight at the range." Ramar said any officer would have done what he did. "I'm just a regular cop trying to do a regular cop's job," he said. Birth records show the boy was born May 8, 2006, at Emanuel. His name has not been released, but a manager at the Turlock apartment complex where the mother, Frances Liliana Casian, and son live said he was named after the father: Sergio. Neighbors said investigators visited the building late Saturday. The mother and child always have been quiet and kept to themselves,