“What I’m asking for today is justice for my son. He did not deserve to die the way he did,” Maribel Michaca, Jayden’s mother, said to KTLA in June. “He was a loving child and had plans for the future to become a mechanic.”
Maribel Michaca said at a news conference in front of the Santa Ana police station Tuesday, June 23, that she had been “struggling” with her son’s mental health issues for about two years. Part of his diagnosis had been bipolar, she said.
So when he was experiencing another crisis she called 911 as she was directed to in the past to get the psychiatric experts to respond. In the past, he had been hospitalized and treated, she said.
“It was not the first time Santa Ana police came to my home,” she said, struggling to hold back tears as she spoke about her “loving” son.
Maribel Michaca’s boyfriend had suffered a cut as he tried to get a knife away from Jaden, Maribel Michaca said. She insisted the teen posed no threat to her or her boyfriend.