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PUBLISHED: February 23, 2010 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 28, 2017 at 11:13 a.m.

A preliminary hearing was delayed Tuesday until March 22 for a Simi Valley motorist charged with murder in an alcohol-related crash that killed 19-year-old college student Taylor Moss.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Leland B. Harris approved the delay, which was requested by attorneys for Hector Ortiz Jr. He remains jailed in lieu of $1 million bail.

The Van Nuys courtroom was packed by “Taylor’s Army,” a contingent of several dozen relatives and friends of the victim. Wearing plastic badges bearing Moss’ photo, their presence has become commonplace at court proceedings in the case.

Ortiz’s family, his mother sobbing uncontrollably and his father looking distraught, also attended the hearing. They declined to comment.

Authorities say Ortiz was drunk when he hit Moss’ car head-on during a wrong-way crash on the Ventura Freeway as Moss and several friends were driving home from a Halloween party.

In addition to murder, Ortiz is charged with gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, driving under the influence causing injury, and driving with an 0.08 percent blood-alcohol level causing injury.

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