A reward for details about a suspect who shot a 6-year-old California boy in an apparent road rage incident was boosted to $200,000 on Tuesday.
Two Orange County supervisors and an anonymous donor each added $50,000 to the existing cash reward as law enforcement searches for the person who shot and killed Aiden Leos while his mother was driving him to kindergarten.
Supervisor Don Wagner said the county board approved $50,000 from his office budget to go toward the award.
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“Let’s get justice for his family and our devastated community,” Wagner wrote on Twitter.
Supervisor Katrina Foley also pledged to match Wagner’s $50,000, calling Leos’s death a “devastating tragedy.”
“It is my hope this adds 150,000 reasons to encourage the public to send in any tips and information they might have, directly leading to the arrests of the individuals involved in Aiden’s death,” Foley said in a statement.
The supervisors’ contributions made the total reward $150,000, as Leos’s family committed $50,000 in reward money, but family members said an anonymous donor added another $50,000 to the cash pool, according to KTLA. That grew the reward total to $200,000.
Leos was killed on Friday morning 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 said following the shooting. A different family member said the mother made a gesture, after which the suspect 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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A GoFundMe fundraiser, which KTLA reported was set up to help the family fund the reward, totals more than $233,000 in donations.
