A former Los Angeles Police Department officer who fatally shot an unarmed man in Venice in 2015 pleaded not guilty Friday to a murder charge.

Clifford Proctor, 60, was indicted last year on the charge, which includes allegations of causing great bodily injury and use of a deadly weapon. The case remained on hold, however, until Oct. 16, when Proctor — who had apparently been living abroad — was arrested when he disembarked a plane at Los Angeles International Airport.

Proctor appeared in a downtown courtroom Friday morning and pleaded not guilty to the charge. He remains jailed without bail and is due back in court Nov. 3.

Proctor fatally shot Brendon Glenn, 29, on May 5, 2015, following an apparent dispute that occurred between Glenn and a bar bouncer just steps away from Venice Beach

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