{"id":137170,"date":"2026-01-17T03:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/137170\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T03:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:18:08","slug":"mother-of-boy-killed-in-oc-road-rage-shooting-speaks-out-about-lawsuit-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/137170\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Of Boy Killed In OC Road Rage Shooting Speaks Out About Lawsuit: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORANGE COUNTY, CA \u2014 A mother whose son died in a 2021 road rage shooting on the 55 Freeway in Orange County is speaking out after she was sued by the boy&#8217;s father, ABC 7 reported. <\/p>\n<p>The civil lawsuit by Joey Leos against Joanna Cloonan was filed in Orange County Superior Court and also named the shooter, Marcus Anthony Eriz, who is serving a prison sentence of 40 years to life for the shooting of Aiden Leos.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit alleges that Cloonan&#8217;s aggressive driving provoked the deadly shooting. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is the most horrible pain I could ever imagine upon a mother,&#8221; Cloonan told ABC 7. &#8220;I&#8217;m disgusted. I&#8217;m offended. None of that is the truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/post\/aiden-leos-case-boys-father-sues-mother-2021-road-rage-shooting-orange-county\/18401467\/?linkId=898678308&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawPUz95leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFGVTZ2MWh4Z29IcEpUd3hZc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHprNL-RDVYAlHh1f4RIa9T3hJcIpdWu9mlYDkjXFVEfWTTJW_QN08pEkgHNx_aem_DJ2g1FaTL_akxALvck2eFA&amp;userab=abcn_du_cat_topic_feature_holdout-474*variant_b_redesign-1939%2Cotv_web_content_rec-445*variant_b_less_popular_bias-1850\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">To read the full story, visit ABC 7.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORANGE COUNTY, CA \u2014 A mother whose son died in a 2021 road rage shooting on the 55&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-137170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}