File # D222140062

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On the evening of Tuesday, August 2, 2022, deputies from the Hemet Sheriff’s Station received a call of a shooting at Dartmouth Street and Stetson Avenue in the county area of Hemet. When they arrived, they contacted a male victim, who described being shot at during a road rage incident. The shooting victim’s vehicle had several bullet strikes, but the victim was not injured.

Deputies recovered shell casings and other evidence from the scene. A description of the suspect and the suspect vehicle was provided to deputies and an extensive search commenced. Deputies later located the suspect’s vehicle at a residence in the 500 block of Farmstead Street in Hemet. Deputies also located and detained a person believed to be the shooter in the assault at the same residence.

After further investigation, Brandon McFarland, a 38-year old resident of Hemet was arrested for the shooting. He was later booked at the Cois Byrd Detention Center for assault with a firearm. Anyone with information regarding this incident is encouraged to call Lead Investigator Jess Vasquez of the Hemet Sheriff’s Station at 951–791–3400.

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YORBA LINDA, Calif. (AP) — The mother of a Southern California boy killed in a road rage shooting remembered him Saturday as 6-year-old with a vocabulary beyond his years who exuded warmth and tenderness.

“He gave us such joy, giving us purpose to our life. I felt so honored to be Aiden’s mommy,” Joanna Cloonan said an open-casket memorial service for Aiden Leos.

The boy was fatally shot in the abdomen on May 21 while seated in the back seat of a car driven by Cloonan, on State Route 55 in the city of Orange.

According to accounts from the mother and witnesses who stopped to help her, another car cut her off, she responded with a hand gesture and the car slipped in behind her and someone inside fired a shot through the rear of her car.

A reward for information leading to the arrest of a suspect has grown to at least $500,000, Southern California News Group reported.

“I want nothing more than to find justice, though it won’t bring you back into my arms. My precious son had his life ripped away for absolutely no reason,” Cloonan told mourners at Calvary Chapel in Yorba Linda, where Leos was a kindergarten student.

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