Gunman Convicted of Murder for Fatal Shooting of 6-Year-Old Boy on Freeway in OC

Marcus Anthony Eriz, 26, of Costa Mesa, faces up to life in prison.

Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer speaks about the arrest of the suspects in the killing of 6-year-old Aiden Leos at the California Highway Patrol offices in Santa Ana, Calif., on June 7, 2021. John Fredericks/The Epoch Times

A man who fatally shot a 6-year-old boy in a 2021 road-rage incident on a Southern California freeway was convicted Jan. 25 of second-degree murder.

Marcus Anthony Eriz, 26, of Costa Mesa, was also guilty of firing on an occupied vehicle in the May 21, 2021, confrontation that killed Aiden Leos as his mother, Joanna Cloonan, was driving him to kindergarten on the 55 Freeway.