LANCASTER COUSINS FACE TRIAL IN SLAYINGS : TWO SUSPECTS TO FACE TRIAL IN SLAYINGS OF MAN, WOMAN.

Byline: Karen Maeshiro Daily News Staff Writer

Two Lancaster cousins were ordered to stand trial for murder in the double slaying of a man and a woman who were shot in a failed robbery attempt in an apartment complex parking lot.

After the man was shot in the car, the woman fled from the driver's seat but was caught by defendant Harry Jackson Boyd Jr., who held her as she begged not to be killed, saying she had children, officials said.

``She said, `Please don't kill me, Spoony (the nickname for Boyd),' '' said Deputy District Attorney John Portillo. ``Boyd said, `I'm not, but he is,' '' referring to co-defendant Terry Tyrone Evans.

Boyd, 28, and Evans, 21, who authorities say was the gunman, could face the death penalty if convicted of murder in the March 1, 1994, shooting deaths of Latonya Walker, 23, of Ontario and Ronald Greene, 22, of Upland.

The men were returned to California in April following convictions for murder and manslaughter in Florida in the April 1994 beating death of a man near West Palm Beach, Fla.

One of the two weapons used in the Lancaster slaying was a gun belonging to Evans' girlfriend, who has since moved out of the Antelope Valley, Portillo said.

According to the woman, who was pregnant with Evans' child at the time, the two defendants told her that the night of the shooting Greene had flashed $8,000, $4,000 of which was counterfeit and $4,000 of which was real, Portillo said.

The robbers, however, did not find any money. Homicide investigators recovered nearly $4,500 hidden in Greene's clothing - all but about $420 counterfeit, court records show.

Detectives say the shooting occurred at 12:02 a.m. March 1 as the victims and their killers sat in a Hyundai Excel in a parking space at the Antelope Valley Apartments at 43545 32nd St. W.

Detectives said Greene, sitting in the front seat, was shot in the head from behind. The pistol jammed, so Evans took a gun that he found on Greene, shot Greene again, and then shot Walker, Portillo said.

During the preliminary hearing Thursday, Phillip King, an acquaintance of the two defendants, testified that Evans called him and told him to meet Boyd and Evans behind the apartment complex, Portillo said.

Shortly after King got to the complex and parked his car, he said he saw a car drive by with Boyd and Evans in the back seat before it disappeared from view, Portillo said. King said he then heard a couple of gunshots, Portillo said.

King said Boyd and Evans then appeared and ran toward his car, got in and told him to drive, Portillo said. King drove for a few blocks and stopped; then Boyd got out and dumped a gun in some bushes, emptied out a woman's purse and threw it away, Portillo said.

King said Boyd got back in the car and said, ``We didn't get it. It's not here,'' and Evans then told King to drive back to the scene of the shooting, Portillo said.

But when King neared the apartment complex, sirens were heard; he instead dropped the two men off at a nearby apartment complex and went home, Portillo said.

In the Florida case, Boyd was convicted of third-degree murder and was sentenced to 21 years in state prison, and Evans was convicted of manslaughter and received a nine-year prison term, officials said.

Florida authorities said Boyd and Evans beat the man after he made a derogatory comment to a woman walking with them.