周五,一名6岁的男孩在南加州高速公路上因疑似路怒当局称,这是一起意外事件。
加州公路巡逻队说,事件发生在早上8点左右,当时孩子的母亲正驾驶一辆雪佛兰银色轿车沿着奥兰治的55号高速公路向北行驶。
加州公路巡警弗洛伦蒂诺·奥利维拉(Florentino Olivera)在一次新闻发布会上说,这名男孩在“某种道路愤怒事件”中被枪击时,正坐在右后乘客座位的辅助座椅上。他不知道开了多少枪。他说,母亲没有受伤。
洛杉矶
调查人员聚集在一辆汽车附近,根据当局的说法,一名6岁的男孩在那里被枪杀
孩子在附近的医院被宣布死亡。他被家人认出是艾登·雷欧斯,是加略山教堂的幼儿园教师约巴·琳达。枪击发生时,他正被母亲开车送到学校。
“她(艾登的母亲)正在向右边靠近,以避开这个人,如果你上网看看照片,就可以看到后备箱里有一颗子弹穿过后备箱,正好穿过我的侄子,”他的叔叔约翰·J·克洛南三世在周五晚上的新闻发布会上说。
艾登的家人说,他上周刚满6岁。
奥利维拉说,嫌疑枪手仍然在逃,警察正在寻找一辆白色轿车。
洛杉矶
调查人员聚集在一辆汽车附近,根据当局的说法,一名6岁的男孩在那里被枪杀
克洛南说,男孩的母亲看到一名妇女驾驶车辆,一名男子坐在乘客座位上,但不确定是谁开枪。
高速公路巡警正在向公众寻求帮助,包括今天早上7:55到8:15之间在高速公路上行驶的任何人。
他的妹妹亚历克西斯·克洛南在新闻发布会上说:“请帮助我们找到对我弟弟做了这些的人。”。“他只有6岁,他很可爱。...我喜欢生活中有他。”
洛杉矶
调查人员聚集在一辆汽车附近,根据当局的说法,一名6岁的男孩在那里被枪杀
奥利维拉说:“如果你的车有仪表板,我们要求你,请打电话给我们在圣安娜的卫生防护中心办公室,提供那个视频。”。“如果你开车经过,发现有什么不对劲的地方,打电话给我们办公室——即使不是什么重大的事情。我们想听听目击者的证词。”
据美国广播公司洛杉矶站报道,自4月下旬以来,至少有80起汽车在南加州高速公路上行驶时遭到枪击的事件KABC周四报道。该站报道说,大多数人在早上通勤时受伤,没有重大伤亡。
奥利维拉说,周五的致命枪击事件是孤立的,与最近南加州高速公路上的窗户破碎事件无关。
6-year-old boy fatally shot during suspected road rage incident on California highway
A 6-year-old boy died Friday after being shot on a Southern California highway in a suspectedroad rageincident, authorities said.
The incident happened around 8 a.m., while the child's mother was driving a Chevrolet silver sedan northbound along the 55 Freeway in Orange, California Highway Patrol said.
The boy was sitting in a booster seat in the right rear passenger seat when he was shot during "some type of road rage incident," California Highway Patrol Officer Florentino Olivera said during a press briefing. He did not know how many shots were fired. The mother was not hurt, he said.
The child was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. He was identified by family as Aiden Leos, a kindergartener at Calvary Chapel Yorba Linda. He was being driven to school by his mother when the shooting happened.
"She (Aiden's mother) was merging to the right side to get away from this person, and as you can see if you go online and look at the photos, there's one bullet shot in the trunk that went through the trunk and right through my nephew," his uncle, John J. Cloonan III, said at a press conference Friday evening.
Aiden had turned 6 just last week, his family said.
The suspected shooter remains at large and officers are looking for a white sedan, Olivera said.
Cloonan said the boy's mother saw a women driving the vehicle and a man in the passenger seat, but was not sure who fired the shot.
Highway patrol officers are asking the public for help, including anyone driving on the freeway this morning between 7:55 a.m. and 8:15 a.m.
"Please help us find the people that did this to my little brother," his sister, Alexis Cloonan, said at the press conference. "He's only 6 and he was so sweet. ... I loved having him in my life."
"If your vehicle has a dashcam, we're asking you, please call our CHP office in Santa Ana, provide that video," Olivera said. "If you were driving by, you saw something that was not right, call it in -- even if it wasn't something major -- call our office. We want to hear from witnesses."
At least 80 incidents of cars being shot at while traveling on Southern California freeways have been reported since late April, ABC News Los Angeles stationKABC reported on Thursday. Most were during the morning commute and there were no significant injuries, the station reported.
Friday's deadly shooting is isolated and unrelated to recent window-shattering incidents along Southern California freeways, Olivera said.