They say he tried to grab a security guard s gun, but his family disputes that. This doesn t happen to people in Sherman Oaks or in the Valley to white people in the store. You don t see a cop run up to them and hit them with a baton, Humberto Guizar of the Justice X Legal group said. He was not hitting nobody back, he was not fighting like they said he was, said an emotional Maria Serrano, the mother of Ernie Serrano. He was taking the hits and they put him on the floor, and they killed him. He died right there. He didn t die at the hospital. He died right there.