The reward for information leading to the arrest of the alleged “road rage” shooter who killed 6-year-old Aiden Leos on a California highway last week tripled to hit $150,000 Tuesday.
Two Orange County supervisors – Katrina Foley and Don Wagner – added $50,000 each from their office budgets to the initial $50,000 offered by the victim’s family.
“What happened to Aiden is a devastating tragedy,” Supervisor Foley said in a statement. “I am heartbroken for his family and particularly for his parents, Joanna Cloonan and Jose Leos. I want to do everything in my power to help bring the shooter to justice.”
She said her hope is that someone who knows something about the shooter will now see “150,000 reasons” to come forward with the information.
“Let’s get justice for his family and our devastated community,” Supervisor Wagner said in a Twitter post.
Little Aiden was on his way to school Friday morning when he was struck by a bullet while sitting in a booster seat in the back of his mother’s silver Chevrolet on State Route 55 near Chapman Avenue, police said.
“It was an apparent road rage incident between the two vehicles. We’re not sure how many rounds were fired, but a shot was fired into the car which struck the child,” CHP Officer Florentino Olivera told the Daily News.
Mom Joanna Cloonan told ABC News that a vehicle cut her off “abruptly” as she was driving in the carpool lane.
Relatives told KTLA she then made a gesture at the other car.
“As I started to merge away from them, I heard a really loud noise,” Cloonan told ABC News. “And my son said, ‘Ow,’ and I had to pull over. And he got shot.”
“I want to find them and I want justice to be served for my son.”
Anyone with any information is asked to call the CHP’s Santa Ana office at 714-567-6000.
