6-Year-Old, Going To School In Car, Dies In Los Angeles Road-Rage Shooting

California state patrolman Florentino Olivera told the Los Angeles Times it was "an isolated road-rage incident."

A six-year-old boy in Los Angeles was killed in a "road rage" incident as he was being driven to school, US media reported, the latest of a growing number of young victims of gun violence in the United States. The incident Friday appeared in some ways typical of the way a moment of anger, coupled with pervasive gun ownership, can take a high collateral toll. It began, according to media reports, when a woman was driving on the 55 Freeway with her young son, identified as Aiden Leos, in the back. In what police said was a case of road rage -- after one car apparently cut off another -- someone suddenly fired a single shot from behind, striking the rear of the Leos car and piercing Aiden's back, news media reported.