Detectives continued looking for the suspect who got out of a car and gunned down a 13-year-old Costa Mesa boy over the weekend at a Pico Rivera gas station where the victim’s mother worked.
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Investigators on Sunday, Aug. 24, arrested the driver on suspicion of being an accessory to murder, sheriff’s Lt. Michael Modica said.
But the gunman, one of at least two passengers, ran after the shooting at the 76 station on the 8800 block of Whittier Boulevard around 11:45 p.m. Saturday.
The motive remains unknown.
The medical examiner’s office identified the victim as Saith Toledo Mendez.
The boy would go to work with his mom.
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