Jerry Eugene Sumpter, a 39-year-old African American man, was fatally shot on September 17, 2015, in the Walmart parking lot in the Brier Creek area of Raleigh, North Carolina. The shooting occurred about 10:40 p.m.; Sumpter was taken to Duke University Hospital and pronounced dead. Another man, Emil Emit Sherwood, 36, was wounded and survived with non-life-threatening injuries. Both Sumpter and Sherwood had prior drug and weapons charges.

Two Durham men were arrested in connection with the slaying: Anthony Isiah Carrington, 24, was arrested September 23, 2015, and Tavarese Demond Vine, 25, was also taken into custody. Authorities said the motive was unclear but that the shooting was not random; the suspects fled in a white Dodge Charger and a silver Honda Accord. The case has been linked in reporting to a separate August 2015 homicide involving Vine’s sister, Dymond Patrice Fowler, but no confirmed motive for Sumpter’s killing has been reported.

Anyone with information about the shooting or additional suspects is asked to contact the Raleigh police.