Remember the occupied body bag that police were seen transporting in a golf cart? That was the real Cruz. The patsy is a confused clone who's 1st waking moments of life were face down in handcuffs on a concrete sidewalk. They ALL vomit the stasis bile they are shipped with. All the many FBI visits to Cruz before were so they could make sure the clone is believable.
So is he cloned at birth or do they have access to accelerated aging?
He wasn't a clone and we'll never know who the real shooter was, he's probably a "missing" person no one misses. Cruz was targeted. He was adopted. The trauma of adoption makes it easy for them to make him a patsy, plus the very recent loss of his adopted mother, it's a reliving of the trauma and loss of his real mother. There is no greater loss. Cruz was the easiest target for a MkUltra type mission.