The California Highway Patrol has posted a photo of the car linked to the killing, and is asking for the public's help locating the vehicle and the owner.
Aiden Leos, 6, died shortly after the incident on May 21. His mother, Joanna Cloonan, was driving him to school on the 55 Freeway in the city of Orange. When she tried to exit from the carpool lane, a white Volkswagen Golf SportWagen driven by a woman cut off Cloonan, police said. A man in the passenger seat of the Volkswagen fired at Cloonan’s car.
After Aiden, who was sitting in the backseat, said, “Mommy, my tummy hurts,” Cloonan pulled over to the side of the road to check on him. “She picked him up and he was bleeding on her, she had blood on her clothes,” Aiden’s sister, Alexis Cloonan, the next day. “He started turning blue, and that’s when the ambulance took him. That’s the last time my mom saw him alive.”“He meant the world to me, and it feels like my life is over,” CloonanThe shooter’s car sped off as Cloonan pulled over to attend to her injured son.. “The natural order of a parent — and I’m a parent, too — is not to have your child predecease you.”
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