LOS ANGELES — Two people were arrested Sunday in the fatal shooting of a six-year-old boy after a road rage incident on a Southern California freeway, said a law enforcement source familiar with the investigation.
Details about the suspects and what led to the arrests made by the California Highway Patrol were not immediately available, but the arrests follow a series of increases in reward money to $500,000 from various sources.
Investigators had been searching for a white Volkswagen after the May 21 shooting on the 55 Freeway in Orange County.
The boy, Aiden Leos, was on his way to kindergarten when authorities said a person in another vehicle opened fire on the car his mother was driving.
Aiden, who was sitting in a booster seat, told his mother that his “tummy” hurt after being struck by a bullet.
The CHP said there had been “some type of road-rage incident” involving the boy’s mother and another motorist prior to the shooting.
An initial reward of $50,000 that was seeking information leading to a conviction had risen to half-a-million dollars by last week.
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer described the shooting as a “road rage incident” and said the killing “has left our entire community devastated.”
“6-year-old Aiden should have been in kindergarten today, but instead his family is getting ready for his funeral tomorrow,” Spitzer said last week.
Andrew Blankstein reported from Los Angeles and Tim Stelloh from Northern California.
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