The district attorney of Orange County, California, who slammed “woke” crime policies in the state, told the suspects who killed a 6-year-old in a road rage incident that he would not treat them like Los Angeles and San Francisco prosecutors.
Those responsible for the shooting death of Aiden Leos have “about 24 hours” to turn themselves in if they want to talk about details of the investigation, District Attorney Todd Spitzer said.
“I want to talk to the suspects,” Spitzer said at a press conference Thursday. “Do you want to be able to tell your side of the story and what you were thinking and have me listen to it as a district attorney? Or do you want to drag this out and have me turn a deaf ear to you and why you did what you did?”
Spitzer will not be looking the other way, he said Friday.
“You did your crime in the wrong county, and now you are going to have to face me,” he said Friday on Fox News. “I am not one of these woke DAs who just looks the other way on these serious crimes and actually thinks that the shooter is a victim. These people killed a young person in cold blood.”
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Authorities are searching for a man and a woman in connection with the case, Spitzer added.
“As we understand it, the male pulled the trigger,” he said. “You killed a little boy. A little boy who today should be in kindergarten.”
“To the woman driver, I would say: ‘You need to turn yourself in. You’re an accomplice,’” he said.
Spitzer, who recently accused Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascon of promoting a “woke” and “anti-victim” agenda, also took a shot at big California cities and their crime policies.
“I want the two individuals in that vehicle to understand: This is Orange County, California. This is not Los Angeles or San Francisco,” Spitzer said.
…San Francisco….I spent the last 32 years putting people like you behind bars.
Six-year-old Aiden was shot and killed May 21 on the 55 freeway in Orange as his mother drove him to kindergarten.
HELP FIND AIDEN’S KILLER. $310,000 REWARD BEING OFFERED.
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— OCDA Todd Spitzer (@OCDAToddSpitzer) May 27, 2021
Leos was killed on May 21 on a highway in Orange as his mother, Joanna Cloonan, was taking him to school.
A vehicle cut the car off, Cloonan’s daughter Alexis told reporters following the shooting. A different family member said his mother made a gesture, and the suspect then pulled behind and shot at the car.
“As I started to merge away from them, I heard a really loud noise,” Joanna Cloonan told ABC News. “And my son said, ‘Ow,’ and I had to pull over. And he got shot.”
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The cash reward for details about Leos’s killer soared to $310,000 as two county supervisors and an anonymous donor each pledged $50,000 to the pool.
