California couple charged in road rage killing of 6-year-old boy to go to trial

A pair charged within the dying of a 6-year-old boy who was fatally shot on a California freeway throughout a highway rage incident will go to trial, prosecutors stated Wednesday. 

Marcus Anthony Eriz, 25, and Wynne Lee, 23, each of Costa Mesa, are anticipated to be arraigned April 12 in reference to the dying of Aiden Leos, the Orange County District Legal professional’s Workplace stated. 

Eriz is charged with one felony rely every of homicide, capturing into an occupied car, and enhancements of the non-public discharge of a firearm inflicting nice bodily damage and dying. He’s being held in Orange County jail with out bail. 

Lee faces expenses a cost of felony accent after the very fact and having a hid firearm in a car, a misdemeanor. She was launched on electrical monitoring. They’ve each pleaded not responsible. 

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The pair was arrested following a days-long manhunt and $500,000 reward after Leos was shot whereas sitting in a booster seat at the back of his mom’s automotive as they had been touring on State Route 55 to drop him off at kindergarten.

His mom, Joanna Cloonan, stated she made a hand gesture on the suspects after they lower her off. That is when Eriz allegedly opened hearth on the car and shot the boy.  

Cloonan stated she then heard a loud bang, adopted by her son saying, “Ow,” at which level she realized he was bleeding from his chest.

Orange County prosecutor Whitney Bokosky wrote in a courtroom movement that after being arrested on June 6, Eriz admitted to investigators “that he was offended after being ‘flipped off’ by Ms. Cloonan, so he grabbed his loaded Glock 17 9mm and racked a spherical.”

“He then rolled [down] the passenger window and took a shot at her car,” Bokosky wrote. “After capturing the sufferer, [Eriz and Lee] continued on to the 91 eastbound and on to work within the metropolis of Highland.”

Per week after the capturing, Eriz obtained into one other highway rage incident and allegedly flashed a gun at a Tesla driver. He stated he did not notice Leos had died till days later when a co-worker talked about that his Volkswagen Sportwagen resembled the one being sought by police, prosecutors stated. 

He then allegedly shaved his head and adjusted his coiffure. 

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

Eriz faces 40 years to life in jail whereas Lee faces as much as three years.