LIVE: Sentencing hearing for gunman in OC road rage fatal shooting of 6-year-old Aiden Leos

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A 26-year-old Costa Mesa man convicted of shooting and killing 6-year-old Aiden Leos during a road rage incident on a SoCal freeway is to be sentenced Friday in an Orange County court.

in January of second-degree murder in the fatal shooting on the 55 Freeway.

"The heartbreak of a parent losing a child is so overwhelming that no word exists to describe it," Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in a statement back in January. "The short, happy life of Aiden Leos is a life interrupted, abruptly ended by a bullet that pierced Aiden's heart. The bullet not only killed a little 6-year-old boy; it ripped a hole in the heart of all of Orange County."Aiden was fatally shot on May 21, 2021, 10 days after his birthday.

Lee was allegedly driving the car when the shooting took place. Investigators said Eriz was the passenger who shot at Cloonan's vehicle. She faces up to four years behind bars if convicted on charges of being an accessory after the fact and having a concealed firearm in a vehicle.Marcus Anthony Eriz and Wynne Lee are the suspects in the road-rage killing of 6-year-old Aiden Leos. Authorities believe Lee was the driver and Eriz filed the weapon.

Orange County prosecutors argued that whether Eriz intended to kill Aiden or not, he acted with implied malice that led to the child's death.

 

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