JANN HENDRY/Acorn Newspapers THE ACCUSED—Simi Valley resident Harry Scribner, left, stands with his attorney Mark Pachowicz inside Ventura County Superior Courtoom No. 14 Monday for his arraignment. Scribner, who is facing murder charges for shooting his daughter's boyfriend, has not entered a plea as the judge in the case continued proceedings for a second time. Scribner's next court date is Dec. 9.

More than 200 people gathered last weekend to say their final good-byes to Bryan Wall, a 31-year-old killed on Nov. 16 in Simi Valley, outside the home of Harry Scribner, the father of his girlfriend. The day before the funeral, 65-year-old Scribner, the man accused of pulling the trigger, posted bail and walked out of the Ventura County Jail.

According to police reports, Scribner said he was awakened in the middle of the night to beating on his door on Heavenly Court. He found his daughter, 29-year-old Jamie Scribner, and Wall in front of his house. After an "encounter," Wall died on Scribner's driveway of a gunshot wound to the neck.

Scribner posted $540,000 bail Friday and appeared in court Monday, when his arraignment was postponed for the second time.

Scribner arrived at the Ventura County Superior Court in black jeans and a gray polo shirt. He was accompanied by his wife, Renee, and his lawyer, Mark Pachowicz.

Pachowicz asked for the continuance in order to further look over evidence, and Scribner's arraignment is now set for Dec. 9.

In the meantime, Judge Kevin McGee ordered Scribner to turn over his passport and gun collection.

While Scribner gears up for a possible murder trial, Wall's family and friends have been grieving their loss. Last Saturday, a large group overflowed a small Spanishstyle chapel at Oakwood Memorial Park in Chatsworth.

Chaplain Gene Roy spoke openly about people's desire to seek justice for Wall.

"When we found out, we didn't know what to do or what to say," Roy said. "Now it's been a week, and people are thinking, 'We have to do something. Someone must pay for this.'"

Roy urged Wall's mourners to try to forgive.

"I will pray for us all; you pray for me, that we find the willingness to forgive," Roy said. "Not forget. Not be buddies with him. But it will serve Bryan's memory if we try to find the willingness to forgive.

"Bryan wants everyone to know the truth about what happened," Roy added. "The perpetrator will face a tribunal, if not here, then (with God)."

In the month leading up to his death, Wall had been sub-renting a room from renters Gail McVicker and her husband in Simi Valley.

McVicker, 73, said she saw Wall and Jamie Scribner around 6 p.m. on the night he was killed. The couple were preparing to attend a "wrap party" for a film that Wall, who worked in the entertainment industry, had just finished helping to shoot.

"They were all dressed up and so excited to be going—they looked like two kids heading to prom," McVicker recalled. "Bryan said, 'Don't get upset if I get home at 2 a.m.' That's how considerate he was."

McVicker said she learned of Wall's death the next morning when police arrived on her front doorstep to ask questions. She said she was "absolutely shocked."

"He was such a wonderful renter—he would leave at 5 a.m. every day and get home by 7 p.m. . . . and he was always very nice and considerate," she said.

McVicker said she saw Wall and Jamie together frequently and never detected any friction, nor did she ever hear of a conflict between Wall and Jamie's father.

"Bryan and his girlfriend would spend almost every evening together," she said. "From what we saw, they got along very well. We never saw any fighting. They looked like a very cute couple," she said.

McVicker also said Wall was a good father.

"He said one of the reasons he lived in Simi was because his little boy lived here and he could see him whenever he wanted," she said. "(Wall) used to get his son every other weekend."

--Acorn editor Kyle Jorrey contributed to this story.