Harry Scribner Details from a search warrant have shed more light on the recent shooting of a 31yearold Simi Valley man.

Bryan Wall, 31, was gunned down Nov. 16 in Simi Valley outside the home of Harry Scribner, the father of his girlfriend. The death occurred after an "encounter" between Wall and Scribner on Scribner's driveway on Heavenly Court, according to police reports.

Testimony from Wall's girlfriend Jamie Scribner, Harry Scribner and his wife, Renee Scribner, as told to Detective Jay Carrott of the Simi Valley Police Department, was released within the search warrant.

Harry Scribner's testimony shows that he may have initially intended to cover up the shooting, having changed his clothes and returned his gun to its case.

And while Scribner claims Wall was charging him at the time of the shot, autopsy results say that Wall was not face on with his assailant.

Jamie Scribner confirmed that she and Wall had gotten into an argument on the way home from a party in Los Angeles Nov. 16. She said she moved to the back seat of Wall's pickup truck, at which time Wall "reached around and backhanded her across the face" and "she reached up and slapped him across the right side of the face while he was driving."

Bryan Wall Wall, for reasons still unknown, then drove to Jamie Scribner's parents' home on Heavenly Court—where she does not live—instead of taking her back to his house where her car was parked.

In her testimony to police, Jamie Scribner said he got out and began pounding on her parents' door.

Harry Scribner answered the door holding a gun, and, according to his own testimony, Wall told him to get Jamie and take her home. Harry said he saw his daughter sitting in the truck with blood on her face. Wall's face was also battered.

Wall went back to his truck, but, according to both Harry and Jamie, he exited again as Harry walked down the driveway with the gun.

Carrott wrote that Jamie said "it seemed obvious to her that the two were going to confront each other." Harry said Wall "charged him."

"(Harry said Wall) came at him in an aggressive manner. He said he did not think he could make it back to the house and lock the door before Wall would catch up to him," reads the warrant.

It was at that time, according to both Jamie and Harry, when the two men were about 10 to 15 feet apart, that Harry shot Wall in the neck.

No words were exchanged between the two men. Harry said the shooting was an accident.

"(Harry) said he raised the gun with the intent to just scare Wall," the search warrant reads. "He said the gun went off without him even touching the trigger. He said he did not understand how the bullet hit Wall as he was 'aiming' over his shoulder."

Senior Dep. District Attorney Richard Simon said he doesn't buy Harry's story.

"I don't believe it," Simon said. "A gun like that doesn't go off by itself. He was trying to help himself. People don't always tell the truth."

According to Harry, Wall was charging him, although the autopsy report determined that, according to the wound channel, Wall was "not face on with his assailant, but moving away from the gunfire."

Craig Stevens, a senior deputy medical examiner at the Ventura County Coroner's officer, confirmed Carrott's statement. Both Carrott and Stevens were present at the autopsy.

"It would indicate that he was most likely not face on," Stevens said, adding that it could mean Wall was turning away.

Harry also admitted to Carrott that after he shot Wall he returned to the house, changed his pants and returned the gun to its case. When he came back out to his driveway, a call was being placed to 911, although it's unclear whether it was Renee or Jamie who spoke to the dispatcher.

Simon said there wasn't too much significance to Harry's actions after the fatal shot.

"He didn't get rid of the gun; he didn't deny shooting him," Simon said. "As far as changing his pants, it would be more significant if he was trying to destroy evidence."

The district attorney's office is maintaining that the shooting was "in the heat of passion." Simon said they are basing that on testimony that Jamie had told her father that Wall had been "beating her all the way from L.A."

"We are trying to figure out what really happened, not what (Harry) said happened," Simon said.

Both Harry and Jamie told the detective that Wall had his arms at his sides and nothing in his hands when he approached Harry.

Wall's brother and sister-in-law, Roger and Lisa Wall, said the testimony shows that Bryan did nothing to provoke Harry to shoot him.

"This shows that this shouldn't have happened," Roger Wall said. "All of these people have been making my brother out to be this bad guy because of his past with drugs, like he was attacking this old man. . . . There was no reason for (Harry) to shoot Bryan."

Harry told Carrott that his daughter and Wall had had a "volatile" dating relationship for about two years. He described one incident where Wall allegedly hit Jamie and broke her nose.

"He said he had never confronted (Wall) about any domestic violence allegations as he wanted to stay out of it," said Carrott in the warrant.

The warrant also revealed more information about the stolen gun used in the shooting.

According to testimony from Harry, his house has been broken into several times as a result of a real estate dispute, which is why he slept with the 9 mm Smith & Wesson semiautomatic handgun under his pillow for two years.

In testimony to police, he said he kept a bullet in the chamber with the hammer cocked and the safety off. The gun, he said, sat under his pillow in an unzipped gun case.

Harry said he bought the gun 30 to 40 years ago from a Los Angeles police officer, although he could not remember the man's name.

But the gun's previous owner— unnamed in the public version of the warrant—said he bought it at a Big 5 Sporting Goods store in Simi Valley in 1980. He said it was stolen in a burglary of his home in 1982.

Harry Scribner, who had the charges against him reduced from murder to voluntary manslaughter early last month, is next due at Ventura County Superior Court on Mon., Jan. 5.

In addition to voluntary manslaughter, Scribner was also charged with possession of a stolen firearm.

He pleaded not guilty to both charges.