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- A judge set a preliminary hearing with testimony on Sept. 24 for Steven Leon Carter.
- Carter faces nine felony charges stemming from the March 12 shooting at his Camino home.
- Two deputies and a PG&E worker were wounded, and Carter remains jailed without bail.
A judge has scheduled testimony in a preliminary hearing next month for an El Dorado County man accused of wounding two sheriff’s deputies and a PG&E worker in a shooting five months ago at the defendant’s Camino home.
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Steven Leon Carter, 67, faces nine felony charges, including attempted murder, stemming from the March 12 shooting at his home on Mountain View Drive, according to a March 16 filed criminal complaint.
Carter, who is accused of shooting El Dorado County sheriff’s deputies, remained in custody Monday at the Placer County Jail. Custody records show he’s been deemed ineligible for bail.
On Friday, Judge Mark Ralphs scheduled a Sept. 24 preliminary hearing for Carter, El Dorado Superior Court records show. Prosecutors will present testimony and evidence at next month’s hearing, and the judge will then determine whether there’s enough evidence for Carter to stand trial.
Carter’s preliminary hearing was initially scheduled on June 6, but it was vacated and rescheduled last week.
The shooting was reported shortly before 7:30 a.m. on March 12. The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office said a crew from Pacific Gas and Electric Co. reported they had been shot at while at the Mountain View Drive home in Camino.
Sheriff’s officials said one the of the PG&E employees was injured during the initial confrontation. Deputies responded to the first reported shooting.
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Two deputies who responded to the scene were shot and wounded, sheriff’s officials said. The shooting suspect, later identified as Carter, also was wounded in an exchange of gunfire with the deputies before he was arrested.
Carter faces attempted murder charges in which the two deputies and the PG&E worker are listed as victims injured in the shooting, according to the criminal complaint filed by the El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office. The charges include enhancements for alleged attempted murder on a peace officer and acting with premeditation in the alleged shooting of the PG&E worker.
The defendant also faces three counts of intentional discharge of firearm causing great bodily injury for the alleged shooting of the two deputies and the PG&E worker.
Prosecutors also charged Carter with four additional counts each of attempted murder and intentional discharge of firearm for allegedly shooting at a sheriff’s sergeant, another deputy and two other men in the March 12 confrontation. The charges indicate these victims were not wounded.
Carter also faces two counts of committing assault with a semiautomatic gun upon a peace officer. The complaint shows these were two peace officers, presumably from other law enforcement agencies, who also were not wounded.
The judge scheduled Carter to return to court Sept. 4 for further proceedings in his criminal case before his Sept. 24 preliminary hearing.
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