O.C. couple to stand trial in shooting death of 6-year-old Aiden Leos

A choose on Wednesday ordered a Costa Mesa couple to face trial within the taking pictures loss of life of a 6-year-old boy throughout a highway rage incident on the 55 Freeway final Could.

Marcus Anthony Eriz, 25, has been charged with one felony rely of homicide, one felony rely of taking pictures into an occupied automobile, and one felony enhancements of the private discharge of a firearm inflicting nice bodily damage and loss of life, the Orange County District Legal professional’s Workplace stated in a information launch.

He faces a most sentence of 40 years to life in state jail if convicted on all counts.

His girlfriend and 23-year-old driver of the getaway automobile, Wynne Lee, has been charged with one felony rely of accent after the actual fact and one misdemeanor rely of getting a hid firearm in a automobile.

She faces a most sentence of three years in state jail and one yr within the Orange County Jail if convicted on all prices.

They’d each pleaded not responsible final June.

Eriz is presently being held with out bail. Lee was launched on digital monitoring.

Lee and Eriz are scheduled to be arraigned on April 12 on the Central Justice Heart in Santa Ana.

Simply after 8 a.m. on Could 21, 2021, 6-year-old Aiden Leos was shot and killed whereas within the again seat of his mom’s automobile whereas on the 55 Freeway close to Chapman Avenue.

Leos was on his solution to kindergarten at Calvary Chapel in Yorba Linda. Leos’ mom, Joanna Cloonan, was indignant {that a} rushing automobile lower her off and so she put her center finger up as that automobile handed her, prosecutors stated. That’s when Eriz is accused of taking pictures on the automobile, killing the 6-year-old boy, as Lee drove away.

The California Freeway Patrol launched an intense two-week manhunt for the shooter that spanned Southern California, together with issuing a public plea for ideas in regards to the whereabouts of the suspects’ automobile.

The story of the taking pictures acquired widespread information protection and a reward of $500,000 was being provided for data on the suspects.

Eriz and Lee had been ultimately arrested on June 6, 2021.

“A monster with a gun murdered just a little boy on his solution to kindergarten – as a result of he was lower off on the freeway,” O.C. District Legal professional Todd Spitzer stated in a written assertion Wednesday. “The callousness of this crime is unspeakable, however the truth that this couple continued to cover out in plain sight realizing full effectively they killed a 6-year-old youngster whereas Aiden’s grieving mother and father pleaded with the killers to return ahead is [unforgivable].”