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Mother eulogizes Southern California boy killed in road rage

A memorial service was held Saturday for a Southern California boy killed in a road rage shooting

Via AP news wire
Saturday 05 June 2021 23:26 BST
Road Rage Boy Slain
Road Rage Boy Slain

The mother of a Southern California boy killed in a road rage shooting remembered him Saturday as 6-year-old with a vocabulary beyond his years who exuded warmth and tenderness.

“He gave us such joy, giving us purpose to our life. I felt so honored to be Aiden’s mommy,” Joanna Cloonan said an open-casket memorial service for Aiden Leos.

The boy was fatally shot in the abdomen on May 21 while seated in the back seat of a car driven by Cloonan, on State Route 55 in the city of Orange

According to accounts from the mother and witnesses who stopped to help her, another car cut her off, she responded with a hand gesture and the car slipped in behind her and someone inside fired a shot through the rear of her car.

A reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspect has grown to at least $500,000, Southern California News Group reported.

“I want nothing more than to find justice, though it won’t bring you back into my arms. My precious son had his life ripped away for absolutely no reason," Cloonan told mourners at Calvary Chapel in Yorba Linda, where Leos was a kindergarten student.

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