'I shot my friend on accident:' Man charged in deadly shooting outside Raleigh mall released on bond
Raleigh police officers arrested the man suspected of unintentionally shooting and killing another man Friday in the parking lot of Saks Fifth Avenue.
Barri Rogers, 21, is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of Ahmad Nasir Dimetrius Johnson.
Johnson, 21, died at the hospital, according to police.
Police said Rogers unintentionally shot Johnson. Both men were sitting in the same car outside Triangle Town Center Mall at 5959 Triangle Town Blvd., police said.
Authorities were holding Rogers at the Wake County Detention Center, but he was released on bond.
Triangle Town Center remained open Friday after a shooting outside Saks Fifth Avenue. A portion of the parking lot was surrounded by crime scene tape.
Police were called to 7700 Old Wake Forest Road just before noon, and they questioned people in the parking lot about what they might have seen or heard.
"I was in the dressing room the entire time, and then all this happened when I walked outside," said shopper Jessica Miller. "I am not really surprised."
One person told WRAL News that they saw the aftermath of the shooting, with a person on the ground being given CPR.
"I went over and looked, and it seemed like there was someone on the ground not really moving, and [someone] was trying to resuscitate him," said witness Josiah Freeman.
When officers arrived, they found a man with a gunshot wound.
"[A man] said he took the gun off safety and it went off and hit the guy in the chest," Freeman said. "They tried to keep resuscitating him."
Police ask anyone with information to contact Raleigh Crime Stoppers.
The investigation is ongoing.
The incident in Raleigh is the second in a mall parking lot in a month. On Aug. 25, two men fired on a third as he left Fayetteville's Cross Creek Mall, sending that mall into a lockdown.
