Police have arrested a 21-year-old man in connection with a deadly shooting near a grocery store in University City.
Joseph Lewis Sings Jr. was arrested Wednesday in Gaston County and charged with first-degree murder in the death of 22-year-old Jacori Mitchell.
The shooting happened early Sunday, Sept. 13, near an Aldi grocery store on N. Tryon Street. Officers responding to a call around 3:20 a.m. found Mitchell lying unresponsive on the sidewalk between the grocery store and a Cook Out restaurant with a gunshot wound to his back. First responders performed life-saving measures, but Mitchell was pronounced dead at 3:30 a.m…