Couple Responsible for Road Rage Killing or Six Year Old Found

Couple Responsible for Road Rage Killing or Six Year Old Found

The couple behind a horrific incident of road rage has been found and is behind bars!

Marcus Anthony Ariz, 24, and Wynne Lee, 23, were arrested June 6 at their home in Costa Mesa, located 40 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, in the death of Aiden Leos.

“Mommy, my belly hurts…” were the last words of Aiden. According to his older sister Alexis Cloonan, he said those words moments after being shot in the stomach.  The shooting was an apparent act of road rage.

Now the two evidently responsible for his killing have been found and taken into custody.

Officials declined to disclose details of what led to their capture or how the pair were linked to the shooting. Prosecutors are still deciding what charge to bring, said Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer.

“We are reviewing the evidence, and we’re looking at every single legal theory in conjunction with that evidence,” he said.

“The one thing you don’t want to do in the criminal justice system is to make promises…we don’t want to make promises, but there’s something about that that leaves me a little bit empty,” he added. “I do want to promise today that when Aiden was put below ground that we will get justice for him. We have to promise him that.”

Eric and Lee are being held in the Orange County jail on a $1 million bond each, according to jail records.

The arrests came after a two-week manhunt and a day after a weekend memorial service for Leos, who was remembered as a child with a vocabulary beyond his years who exuded warmth and tenderness.

Aiden attended kindergarten at Calvary Chapel in Yorba Linda, according to local reports. He had just celebrated his birthday the week before his shocking death.

The chilling incident took place about 8 a.m. on the northbound side of the 55 Freeway in Orange while Aiden drove with his mother in a silver Chevrolet sedan. The boy sat in his safety seat in the right rear passenger side of the vehicle. 

The tragedy unfolded when his mother, Joanna Cloonan — who was not injured — reportedly flipped off the driver of a white sedan who had cut her off in the highway’s carpool lane. A passenger in the white car fired off an unknown number of shots, hitting Aiden, reports said.

According to the arrest records for Eriz and Lee, a vehicle, a white Volkswagen, matching the description used in the shooting, and a gun used in the incident were recovered at different locations.

During the incident after her boy was struck, Cloonan said she pulled along with a witness to try and save the boy’s life. Leos later died at the hospital and was buried soon after in a private ceremony that was live-streamed online.

“You loved to play with toys for hours. You would create a whole world with characters within your vivid imagination,” Cloonan said at the service, FOX Los Angeles reported.

According to Fox News, Eriz’s Instagram account shows him handling various types of firearms at a shooting range. He also had images of multiple firearms on his social media accounts.

Within a week of the killing, Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer had voiced his frustration that no suspects had turned themselves into police despite the highly publicized nature of the crime and the outpouring of grief and support.

“I was unequivocally clear with them. ‘Turn yourself in. Turn yourself in.’ And they didn’t,” he said. “So now it’s time for the [criminal justice] system to do what it’s designed to do.”

He also praised the national media for playing a pivotal role in helping to capture the two suspects. A reward for identifying them had reached $500,000 by the time they were arrested.

4 thoughts on “Couple Responsible for Road Rage Killing or Six Year Old Found

  1. A Firing Squad is too good for the bastards! I like drawn and quartered slowly.

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