Daniel C. Lloyd

The former co-defendant in the Daniel C. Lloyd homicide trial is testifying Wednesday, prosecutors said Tuesday, the second day of the trial.

Lloyd, 21, of Pitcairn, is on trial for the June 11, 2022, shooting death of Frederick Orr, 32, of Columbus, Ohio. Orr’s body was found that day with three gunshot wounds along Kelly Road between East Portersville and Yellow Creek roads in Muddy Creek Township.

The Butler County district attorney’s office is trying to prove Lloyd hid in the back of an SUV owned by former co-defendant Nicole Schwartz, 38, of Ellwood City, when she picked up Orr after he was released from the county prison on June 10, and that Lloyd shot him early June 11 before leaving the body along Kelly Road.

Prosecutors said Schwartz ran drugs for Orr, but she used the crack cocaine and spent the money he stashed before he went to prison, and began a relationship with Lloyd after Orr was incarcerated.

Schwartz also was charged with homicide, but her case has been severed from Lloyd’s and has been continued.

Assistant district attorney Ben Simon said Schwartz is among the witnesses scheduled to testify Wednesday.

On Tuesday, the jury was taken to a garage in the courthouse to see the SUV and heard testimony about Orr’s autopsy. In addition, the panel heard testimony from witnesses who said they were with Lloyd and Schwartz before and after the alleged shooting.

Dr. Todd Luckasevic, an associate medical examiner in Allegheny County who performed the autopsy, said Orr had three gunshot wounds — one through the back of his head and two through the back — and all three caused lethal injuries.

He said there is no evidence that the shots were fired at close range and he couldn’t determine the order in which the shots were fired, but all three bullets traveled in an upward trajectory through Orr’s body. Marijuana was detected in his blood, Luckasevic said.

County resident Tamika R. Cottrill testified that she and her boyfriend Dakota Hinchberger, who is Schwartz’s brother, were at the Longhorn Corral in Franklin Township on June 10 when Schwartz called and asked if they could babysit her daughter.

Schwartz, Lloyd and the baby arrived and entered Cottrill and Hinchberger’s hotel room with them. Schwartz and Lloyd then left, Cottrill said.

The morning of June 11, Schwartz showed up at the Longhorn in a different vehicle than the one she had the day before and took Hinchberger to work, she said.

Later that day, Hinchberger arrived and they took the baby to meet Schwartz and Lloyd at an apartment in Pittsburgh, she said. They then went to a house in Pittsburgh before she, Hinchberger, Lloyd and Schwartz drove back to Butler, Cottrill said.

She said she is facing felony receiving stolen property and theft charges and the district attorney’s office told her that her testimony in the trial would be taken into consideration in regards to the other charges.

Dylan J. Hinchberger, 30, Schwartz’s youngest sibling, testified that she ran drugs for Orr and she told him that Orr beat her up a couple times. She got involved with Lloyd after Orr was sent to prison, he said.

On June 10, he said he went to Schwartz’s home in Ellwood City, where he sometimes stays, and found her packing her vehicle so she could leave because she was afraid of Orr. He said he left to stay with his girlfriend who lived within walking distance of his sister’s home.

Early June 11, he said his sister came to his girlfriend’s home and asked him to help her put her vehicle in her garage so Orr couldn’t see it. He said Schwartz was “frantic.”

Hinchberger said he and Lloyd, who was calm, cleared out the garage at Schwartz’s home, parked her SUV and taped cardboard over the garage door windows.

He said the vehicle had a strong odor of bleach and the outside passenger side mirror was missing. Before he left, he said he gave his phone to his sister because she said she lost her phone.

Hinchberger said he is on parole from Florida where he served six years and 10 months after being convicted of the armed robbery of two gas stations in 2015. He said he used to use drugs.

A corporal who is a firearm and tool mark examiner from the state police crime lab in Greensburg testified that the four slugs recovered by police were fired by the same .45-caliber handgun. He said only Glock and Bersa make guns with grooves like those found on the recovered slugs.

Two recovered empty shell casings also were fired by the same gun, and Glock guns have a firing pin like the one that struck the primer on the casings, the corporal said.