SALISBURY, N.C. – Salisbury Police is investigating after a man died after being shot overnight Sunday.
Officer were called to the Firewater Restaurant on Avalon Drive just before 1:30 a.m. to a reported shooting. When officers arrived, they were told that someone had been shot in the parking lot and was taken to the hospital.
The victim, identified as Sharod Raheen Mathis, 22, died as a result of injuries suffered during the shooting, police say.
Police have not identified a suspect in the shooting.
The shooting was the first of two fatal incidents in Rowan County Sunday, as police say a 7-year-old was killed in a double shooting a little after 4 a.m.