A person was shot and killed in an altercation involving a Kannapolis firefight Thursday night, according to Concord police.

David Robert Pittarelli, 33, was fatally shot around 9:50 p.m.Thursday in the residential area of Charing Place S.W., off South Union Street, according to police.

Kannapolis firefighter Ryan Lee Cochran, 22, of Concord was driving on Salisbury Road with his girlfriend on the way to Concord when someone started following them in another vehicle, police said.

The vehicle continued to follow the pair for many miles all the way into a residential neighborhood. Cochran stopped his vehicle at Charing Lane and Plott Drive.

According to police, there was then an altercation in which Pittareli was shot. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

According to a police statement Friday, it does not appear that the parties knew each other.

The shooting is being investigated and no charges have been filed. Cochran will be suspended with pay until the investigation results are available, according to a statement from the city of Kannapolis.