LOS ANGELES — A Southern California man who shot at a automotive on a freeway throughout a road-rage incident and killed a 6-year-old who was on his technique to kindergarten was sentenced Friday to the utmost attainable sentence of 40 years to life in jail.Marcus Anthony Eriz, 27, of Costa Mesa, was convicted by a jury in January of second-degree homicide and capturing into an occupied car for the Might 21, 2021, killing of Aiden Leos.Superior Courtroom Decide Richard King mentioned Aiden was “a 6-year-old in the back seat, the most vulnerable victim that you can even imagine, going to kindergarten being driven by his mom.”A photograph of Aiden Leos towards the courthouse wall in Santa Ana, Calif., on Jan. 25.Paul Bersebach / MediaNews Group/Orange County Register by way of Getty Photos“I don’t think the English language can even attempt, for anybody, to even describe what Aiden’s mother went through after he said ‘ouch,’” King mentioned. “She pulls over, and her little boy dies in her arms.”Eriz fired a shot on the automotive after his girlfriend, who was driving their automotive, lower Aiden’s mother off on State Route 55. The girlfriend gave a peace signal and Aiden’s mother flipped them off, prosecutors mentioned. Eriz, within the again seat, opened the window and fired a handgun at her automotive. The mom heard a noise and her son cry out as she was driving away, authorities mentioned. Aiden, who was in a automotive seat within the again, was struck.Eriz apologized in court docket Friday. “He was a son, a little brother and a friend to others. He looked as if he brightened up the world everywhere he went and truly one of God’s little angels,” Eriz mentioned. “And I am so sorry for ever hurting him, and for the pain that he went through because of me.”Really useful”He never deserved it. And neither did his family,” Eriz mentioned.Eriz would have been sentenced to fifteen years to life, however he was convicted of a sentencing enhancement that added an additional 25 years to life, and the choose refused to strike that enhancement.King mentioned he couldn’t join any mitigating elements, like childhood trauma or his age on the time because the protection argued, with the actions that Eriz took that day.Orange County District Lawyer Todd Spitzer mentioned that “this wasn’t a horrible mistake; this is a cold-blooded murder.””Marcus Eriz pulled out his gun and fired it into a moving car because he wanted to world to know what he was capable of — and what he took was the life of a little six-year-old boy and the sense of security of drivers everywhere who worry that driving on our freeways could be a death sentence, not because of a crash but because of a bullet,” Spitzer mentioned in an announcement after the sentencing.Eriz’s girlfriend, Wynne Lee, has been charged with one rely every of accent after the actual fact and having a hid firearm in a car. Her case is pending and she or he has pleaded not responsible.If convicted on each counts, Lee faces as much as three years in state jail and one yr within the Orange County Jail, the district legal professional’s workplace mentioned.The stunning violence on the freeway sparked a manhunt that ended with the pair’s arrest on June 6, 2021, round two weeks after the capturing. A reward for data had grown to greater than $300,000 within the case.Phil Helsel is a reporter for NBC Information.
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