Trial Ordered in Student’s Death : Crime: Two men, one of them the teen-ager’s former boyfriend, face murder charges in her slaying outside a La Mesa photography studio.

Two men charged with murdering a popular Grossmont High School student were ordered to stand trial Tuesday after an emotional hearing that included testimony from an alleged accomplice.

Municipal Judge Frank A. Brown ordered the trial for Aaron Sylvester Hill, 20, and the victim’s former boyfriend, Alex Love II, 19, after several witnesses linked the men to the killing.

Love is charged with being the gunman who fired two bullets from a semiautomatic pistol into Tameka Henderson’s head and torso. Hill faces murder charges for allegedly being the driver of a borrowed vehicle used in the crime.

Both men, each held in lieu of $2 million bail, are scheduled to be arraigned Sept. 9 in Superior Court. At that hearing, prosecutors will announce whether they will seek special-circumstance allegations that could lead to the death penalty for the two.

Henderson, 17, was shot about 8:30 p.m. June 3 as she was leaving her job at a La Mesa photography studio. A masked gunman opened fire into the driver’s-side window of her car.

Love’s girlfriend, 19-year-old Alisa Renee Arkinzadeh, is charged with being an accomplice after the fact, but Deputy Dist. Atty. Jim Waters granted her immunity from prosecution in exchange for her testimony against the men.

Arkinzadeh testified that several hours after the shooting, she met with the men as they returned her Honda Civic, which they had borrowed earlier in the evening.

Arkinzadeh quoted Hill as saying about Love: “I’ve seen a lot of people who were crazy, but (he) is nuts. This boy went up there and shot her.”

The graduate of Clairemont High School testified that she did not know about any plan to murder Henderson, and she vehemently denied ever making any threats against her lover’s former girlfriend.

Arkinzadeh testified that Love forced her to participate in the crime by threatening her when he ordered her to dispose of the murder weapon.

Love “turned to me and said, ‘Do you want to end up like her? Don’t you know she’s dead?’ ” Arkinzadeh said.

The woman, who was shaking violently when she appeared in court but regained enough composure to take the witness stand, also testified that Love physically abused her during their relationship.

After Brown ordered the two men to stand trial, one of Hill’s aunts complained to the judge about Arkinzadeh’s immunity. “She’s more responsible for this, and I don’t think it’s fair that you let her go,” she said.

In other testimony Tuesday, one of Henderson’s co-workers, who was in the car at the time of the shooting, said someone approached just after Henderson got into the vehicle.

“I saw a figure with a gun,” Dawn Keller testified. “The person tapped on the window with the gun. I thought it was a joke because I didn’t know what was going on.”

But then she heard Henderson cry out.

“I remember Tameka screaming, and she said, ‘Oh my God, Dawn!’ ” Keller said.

Keller described how the masked attacker fumbled with the gun “as if they didn’t know how it worked.” Then, as Keller scrambled out of the car, “a shot went off and it shattered the window,” she said.

The assailant then leaned in through the window and fired another bullet into Henderson.

The testimony of two other witnesses indicated the killing had been planned.

Lisette Mercado said she spoke with Hill the day after the killing and that he detailed two plans “so no one could find out” about the shooting.

Mercado, who said she had a crush on Hill and appeared reluctant to testify against him, said she was told that the men had planned to either purchase movie tickets or appear at a basketball game in order to establish an alibi.

Kenneth Winfrey, a friend of both men, said he purchased a gun with money provided by Love. Winfrey said he bought a pistol and ammunition that he later reported stolen, even though the gun was turned over to Hill.

“Well, me and Alex (Love) discussed if he was to use the gun on someone, for protection or whatever, and if it was reported stolen, it wouldn’t come back to me and I wouldn’t be asked who did the shooting,” Winfrey said.

Winfrey identified the gun in court. Other evidence showed that the weapon was recovered from a house where Arkinzadeh had dropped it off. A ballistics expert also testified that the same gun fired the bullets that killed Henderson.