Marcus Anthony Eriz, 26, fired a single shot from his automotive after the boy’s mom gave him the center finger throughout a highway rage incident in 2021.
The bullet struck 6-year-old Aiden Leos, who was sitting in his automotive seat within the rear of the automotive. Eriz and his girlfriend, Wynne Lee, fled the scene and have been arrested two weeks later after a statewide manhunt.
Eriz was discovered responsible in January of second-degree homicide and capturing at an occupied motorcar. Throughout Eriz’s sentencing on Friday, Superior Court docket Decide Richard King recounted the terrifying second Leos was shot.
“I don’t suppose the English language may even try, for anyone, to even describe what Aiden’s mom went by after he mentioned ‘ouch,’” King mentioned. “She pulls over, and her little boy dies in her arms.”
Lee has been charged with one rely every of accent after the very fact and having a hid firearm in a car. She has pleaded not responsible.
Throughout his sentencing, Eriz apologized to Leos’ household.
“He by no means deserved it,” Eriz mentioned. “And neither did his household.”