-- From Times staff reporter Steve Miletich:

The arraignment of Christopher Monfort, the Tukwila man charged with killing Seattle police Officer Timothy Brenton on Oct. 31, has been delayed. Prosecutors will ask that it be rescheduled for Dec. 8.

His arraignment had been scheduled for Tuesday, but he remains hospitalized in satisfactory condition at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, recovering from gunshot wounds. Monfort, 41, was shot during a Nov. 6 confrontation with police. His family has said he is paralyzed from the waist down.

Monfort has been charged with one count of aggravated murder, three counts of attempted first-degree murder and first-degree arson. The arson charge one and one of the counts of attempted murder stem from the Oct. 22 firebombing of four Seattle police vehicles at a city maintenance yard.

This is the second time Monfort's arraignment has been delayed. He was originally scheduled for arraignment on Nov. 24, but that also was delayed because of his medical condition.

Brenton, 39, and rookie Officer Britt Sweeney, 33, were seated in their parked patrol car shortly after 10 p.m. on Halloween when police say that Monfort drove up next to them and opened fire. Brenton was killed immediately, and Sweeney suffered minor injuries.

According to court documents, on the day of Monfort's arrest, three Seattle homicide detectives, acting on a tip that his car matched one seen near the crime scene, confronted him at his Tukwila apartment. The documents say he twice aimed a gun at officers before police shot him.