Two reputed gang members were charged with hate crimes for allegedly beating up black youths and trying to force an African-American family out of a neighborhood through a campaign of harassment, federal prosecutors announced Friday.

The mother of a 19-year-old man shot and killed by Kern County Sheriff's deputies said she tried to intervene in the fatal confrontation.

The Kern County Sheriff's Office has identified the man killed in a SWAT standoff Thursday as 19-year-old Andres Aguilar.

The Kern County Sheriff's Office said the man was found hiding in a trailer on Bonita Road just before 8:30 a.m. A sheriff's spokesperson said the suspect shot at deputies, who returned fire. A short time later, they entered the trailer and found...