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Aiden's mother, Joanna Cloonan, was driving him to school in Yorba Linda Friday morning when the shooting occurred.

She told ABC News' Zohreen Shah in an interview on \"Good Morning America\" earlier this week that a white sedan cut her off abruptly while she was in the carpool lane driving northbound on the 55 Freeway. Someone in the vehicle then opened fire on Cloonan's car, striking Aiden in the back seat.

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PHOTO: Joanna Cloonan, center, the mother of 6-year-old Aiden Leos, and Alexis Cloonan, left, Aiden's sister, speak to ABC News after Adien was killed in a road rage shooting in Orange, Calif., May 21, 2021.
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The kindergartener was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.

\"They took my son's life away,\" Cloonan said. \"He was beautiful and he was kind and he was precious, and you killed him for no reason. And I want to find them and I want there to be justice to be served for my son.\"

Cloonan said she saw a woman driving the vehicle and a man in the passenger seat, but was not sure who fired the shot.

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PHOTO: Investigators gather near a car where, according to authorities, a 6-year-old boy was fatally shot in a road rage incident on the 55 Freeway in Orange, Calif., May 21, 2021.
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In a press conference Friday, California Highway Patrol Officer Florentino Olivera asked anyone driving on the freeway in the area near Chapman Avenue between 7:55 a.m. and 8:15 a.m. to call the CHP's Santa Ana office at 714-567-6000.

\"If your vehicle has a dashcam, we're asking you, please call our CHP office in Santa Ana, provide that video,\" said Olivera, who referred to the shooting as \"some type of road rage incident.\"

\"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,\" Olivera said.

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