Days after murder of Aiden Leos , the six-year-old boy shot on the highway 54 , the suspects were i involved in another traffic altercation in which the alleged shooter waved a gun at another motorist, prosecutors said in court documents filed Wednesday.
expects Marcus Anthony Eriz, from 24 years, and Wynne Lee, of 23, are processed on Friday. On this day, Orange County Superior Court Judge Larry Yellin will consider a request from prosecutors to post bonds to higher levels
than usual.
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One suspect charged with murder, another charged with felony accessory charges in the road-rage killing of 6-year-old Aiden Leos. https://t.co/BgqI 24 U2XT pic.twitter.com/Q9NbprugPl
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On June 8, Orange County authorities made the charges public against the two suspects . Eriz accused of murder and unloading a weapon inside an occupied vehicle and Read from complicity in murder , a felony and a misdemeanor for having a concealed firearm in a vehicle, according to the bureau Orange County District Attorney
With the current charges against him, Eriz could face a penalty of between 40 years in prison to life imprisonment . For his part, Lee faces up to three years in prison and one year in jail if you are convicted of both of your charges.
The couple was Arrested at her Costa Mesa home more than two weeks after little Aiden was shot to death while his mother was taking him to school. Aiden’s family had put in a reward to find the suspect who grew quickly from $ 40, 000 dollars up to $ 500, 000 dollars in a few days .
An argument on the road between the mother of the deceased and the accused would have caused the shooting from the car of the latter . The bullets hit the rear of the vehicle and hit the child.
“Wynne Lee gave the victim’s vehicle a ‘peace sign’ with his hand and continued driving ”, according to prosecutors said in the motion for higher bail. The prosecution also said that a few miles later, Joanna Cloonan, Aiden’s mother, was attempting to enter the freeway 60. To do this, she passed the “she passed the defendants and was still angry for being interrupted and showed the middle finger to both of them as they passed.”