A Baltimore County man who was shot to death last week in an Owings Mills movie theater was honored Monday morning in a funeral packed with hundreds of friends and family members, while the Pikesville man accused in the murder waived his right to a court hearing.
Paul Schrum was shot Thursday night during a showing of “X-Men: The Last Stand.”
Mujtaba Rabbani Jabbar, 24, is charged with the murder and waived a bail review hearing Monday, officials said. He remains at the Baltimore County Detention Center.
Family members flew in from Montana and Arizona after hearing the news of Schrum?s killing, said Joe Lijek, 26, a nephew.
The 62-year-old Pikesville man was married and had two daughters ? and many more friends than anyone realized, he said. Everyone came together at the funeral and gathered later at an open house, remembering the positive aspects of his life, he said.
“It was a terrible shock for everybody, and we?re obviously still trying to recover,” Lijek said. “Paul was an incredibly funny guy with so much love to give.”
Baltimore County police were first dispatched shortly after 9 p.m. to the AMC Loews Valley Center 9 in the 9600 block of Reisterstown Road responding to a call that someone had a gun, according to charging documents. While en route, officers learned about the shooting.
Schrum was unconscious and bleeding from multiple gunshot wounds in a theater aisle by the time officers arrived, the documents said. Jabbar was sitting in the lobby and, when asked, told officers that he?d killed someone. He later told detectives he?d been planning to murder somebody for several months, according to charging documents.
Baltimore County Deputy State?s Attorney Stephen Bailey said Monday that there was no truth to rumors that Jabbar had targeted Schrum because of ethnicity, or that the two even knew each other.
“We wanted to make it clear … there?s absolutely no indication that that?s the case,” Bailey said. “This was a random act of violence.”
Baltimore County police found a .357-caliber handgun on a counter in the lobby after the shooting, the documents said. Four of its five shots were spent, with one bullet inside.
