State NAACP Wants Full Investigation Into Mall Shooting Death

The North Carolina NAACP is calling for a full investigation into the shooting death of a man outside a restaurant in Winston-Salem. 

32-year-old Julius Sampson, who is black, was killed outside BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse Tuesday afternoon.

The alleged shooter, Robert Anthony Granato, is white.

The Winston-Salem Journal reports NAACP officials want police to determine whether the incident was racially motivated.

There are reports that racial epithets were used by both men during an argument leading up to the shooting.

But Police Chief Catrina Thompson said that an investigation has not yet uncovered any evidence that the crime was motivated by race.

The Reverend Anthony T. Spearman, the president of the state NAACP, says Granato's Instagram account includes images of him with guns that are “dangerous and something very disturbing.”