Stanley Lloyd Jr. Preliminary Hearing Under Way

Two teens. One no longer living. The other charged with his death.

Stanley Virgil Lloyd Jr. appeared in a black T-shirt with “S.D. Jail” printed on the back in Dept. 16 of the El Cajon courthouse Wednesday. His father and a group of young people were present to hear the evidence in the case presented in the preliminary hearing.

Lloyd was 19 when he was taken into custody at his Lakeside home in March. He is charged with first-degree murder in , who was 17 when his body was found on the Barona Indian Reservation in December 2010. Carioscia had been shot several times and his burned-out car was found on tribal land several weeks earlier. He had last been seen in October.

Among the people who testified Wednesday was the resident sheriff’s deputy on the reservation. He answered questions about photos of footprints, missing guns and a gun under a bed.

At a later point, a woman in a black T-shirt that read “R.I.P Christopher Carioscia” rushed out of the courtroom and collapsed in tears into the arms of a young woman. A group of people, mostly young, was wearing the same T-shirts. One girl wore a pink version.

Prosecutor David Williams told Ramona Patch that Lloyd faces an added allegation of using a gun and that if convicted he could receive a minimum sentence of 50 years or a life term in prison.

Williams will call a “semi-reluctant witness,” Tommy Lachappa, Wednesday afternoon. The county medical examiner will also testify. The medical testimony will answer many questions for the people who have come to court today, Williams told the emotionally wrought group in the T-shirts.

Carioscia was a student at El Capitan High School. The autopsy showed that his body contained methamphetamine, morphine and marijuana and that he had been shot from behind.

The hearing is to determine whether there’s enough evidence to order Lloyd to stand trial.