Father-Son Burial Will End Bond of Torment : Violence: Steven and Christopher Golly will be interred side-by-side in a family grave. Tuesday’s mayhem was result of a chronic domestic battle.

The hard-nosed Vietnam veteran who tried to mold his only child with discipline and costly gifts and the alienated teen-age son who killed him and a police officer before committing suicide will be buried side-by-side in a family grave Tuesday.

Steven R. Golly, 49, and Christopher Golly, 17, are to be interred in a single ceremony in a Camarillo plot purchased by Steven’s mother, Eleanor J. Golly, before the shooting in Northridge.

She was not at her home in Camarillo Thursday. A neighbor said she has been staying with a daughter since the shooting.

Their burial together closes a tortured father-son relationship. Since the drug-overdose death of Christopher’s mother four years ago, the two had been locked in escalating conflict, the father trying to rein in the errant youth who increasingly withdrew into “speed metal” music and amphetamine abuse.

Christopher ended the tug of war early Tuesday morning, drawing his father into his bedroom by increasing the volume on a recording of the Doors’ “The End,” then shooting him through the forehead as he opened the door.

Police said he had planned the whole event, including ambushing officers who arrived after the shooting. A volley of shots from behind a wall beside his darkened house killed rookie Officer Christy Lynne Hamilton, 45. His last act was to put a pistol to his own temple and pull the trigger.

Matt Conner, one of Christopher Golly’s closest friends, told The Times on Thursday that he had asked his own father to intervene with the Gollys, because Conner worried that Christopher Golly was going to follow through with repeated threats to kill the elder Golly.

Conner, 18, who told police that Christopher revealed the plan to him the night before the shooting, said he called his friend twice that night to try to dissuade him. The second time he put his father on the line.

Matt Conner said he heard his father say: “You should think about what you’re doing, this is just one little incident.”

The father, Keith Conner, who was recovering in a hospital Thursday following previously scheduled surgery Wednesday, could not be reached.

Conner quoted his father as telling Christopher: “If you want to come down here and talk about this, you can. You can stay here for a while.”

Matt Conner said he then took the phone back and extracted a promise from Christopher Golly not to harm his father.

“I said, ‘Are you still going to do it?’ and he said, ‘No.’ Then I said, ‘You have to promise me you are not going to do this.’ And he said, ‘I promise.’ I said, ‘You have to promise me on our friendship that you are not going to do this.’ And he said, ‘I give you my word.’

“And then I said, ‘Call me tomorrow,’ and he said, ‘OK, I’ll call you tomorrow. Bye.’ ”

During the past several months, friends of Christopher said, he had told them he was on the verge of killing his father, holding back only because he was frightened.

Despite the friction between them, Steven Golly, who court records show had an estate valued at more than $2 million, had bought his son two cars, friends said. First was a souped-up gray 1968 Chevrolet Camaro that was later stolen and, more recently, a Chevy S-10 pickup truck.

A business partner and 30-year friend of Steven Golly said the father also bought his son the AR-15-type semiautomatic rifle that Christopher Golly turned on police as they arrived at the scene Tuesday morning.

The two of them often took the rifle target shooting together, said Yo Hasegawa, one of Golly’s partners in the Acme Electric Supply Co. of Culver City, a product wholesaler.

“He had so much. His dad gave him everything and that was the wrong thing to do,” reflected Ernest Reepmaker, Christopher’s maternal grandfather.

Along with the gifts, the discipline persisted until the end. The night before the shooting, the father had threatened to disable the pickup truck because the son took it for a drive without a valid license. Christopher Golly’s driver’s license had been suspended Feb. 14 following his conviction for marijuana possession.

In an epilogue to Christopher Golly’s death, three friends, including James Kushner, 18, were arrested in West Hills early Thursday after police found a stolen pistol and 180 rounds of ammunition in their car, which was stopped for having a broken headlight, the Los Angeles Police Department said.

The 9-millimeter handgun had been reported stolen by the parents of one of the youths, a 17-year-old girl, said Detective William Seeley of the West Valley Juvenile Division. The girl was being held at Sylmar Juvenile Hall on suspicion of grand theft of the gun.

Kushner was arrested for possession of alcohol and released, Seeley said.

The 17-year-old driver of the car was arrested for driving under the influence of a controlled substance, Seeley said. He was booked and released to his parents.

At least two of the youths were high on amphetamines and told the officers they received the drugs from Christopher Golly before the Tuesday-morning shootout, said an officer who declined to be identified.

Earlier, Kushner described his relationship with Christopher Golly: “We partied. . . . We had real good times, teen-age stuff. We drank our beer, smoked our weed.” Kushner said at the time that Golly also sold small quantities of methamphetamine to his friends.

Funeral services for Steven and Christopher Golly will be held at 11 a.m. in the Chapel of the Islands at Conejo Mountain Memorial Park and Funeral Home, 2052 Howard Road in Camarillo, said funeral director David Buchta.

Funeral services for Hamilton will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Grace Community Church, 13248 Roscoe Blvd., in Sun Valley. Burial will follow at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, 6300 Forest Lawn Drive, in the Hollywood Hills. A viewing is scheduled for 4 p.m. Sunday at Forest Lawn.