James Godfrey Henry, a man in his early 30s, was shot and killed on May 29, 1972, in the North Hills Mall sniper attack in Raleigh, North Carolina. He had driven to the mall with his family to buy a slide rule for work; he was employed as a mechanic at Whittaker Knitting Mills and had recently moved with his family to nearby Cary. He was struck in the chest in the mall parking lot and pronounced dead on arrival at Rex Hospital.

The attack occurred just after midday on Memorial Day when a gunman opened fire from between parked cars at the mall’s front entrance, firing methodically into the crowd. Henry’s daughter Terri Sue and his stepdaughter Carol Lynn Sutton were also shot and hospitalized. Contemporary accounts list three people killed that day with a fourth dying days later; other victims were wounded.

The gunman, identified as 22–23-year-old Harvey Glenn McLeod, fired for several minutes, then died by suicide as police converged. No arrests were made in connection with Henry’s killing and no additional suspects were publicly identified.