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A carjacking attempt Sunday evening at the upscale Mall at Short Hills in Millburn led to the fatal shooting of a Dustin Friedland as he was returning to his vehicle in a multi-level parking deck.

(Robert Sciarrino/The Star-Ledger)

MILLBURN — Four supects have been arrested in the fatal shooting of a Hoboken lawyer during a carjacking outside the Mall at Short Hills on Sunday, according to the Essex County Prosecutor's office.

A press conference has been scheduled for 9 a.m. this morning to announce the details.

UPDATE:

Authorities identify 4 men arrested in connection with deadly Short Hills carjacking

Sources said the four were arrested at 1 a.m. Witnesses in Irvington said they saw dozens of police and other law enforcement personnel entering a home and taking out at least one suspect. The names, ages and addresses of those arrested were not immediately released.

A $41,000 reward had been offered in an effort to identify the assailants.

Dustin Friedland, 30, was killed as he and his wife were heading to their car in an upper level mall parking deck, following an evening of shopping. Initially, police said two men confronted the couple over their 2012 silver Range Rover at about 9 p.m. A struggle ensued and Friedland was shot once in the head at close range, sources told The Star-Ledger.

One of the men then forced Friedland's wife, Jamie, out of the car at gunpoint, the sources said. She was not injured.

The men stole the Range Rover, speeding away as a green SUV that had been observed earlier circling the mall on surveillance video drove away at high speed as well.

Friedland was taken to Morristown Medical Center, where he later died.

Surveillance footage shows the carjackers entering the parking deck in a green sport utility vehicle before the shooting, sources said. After the attack, one assailant left in Friedland's Range Rover while the other drove the SUV, sources have said.

It remains unclear whether the shooting was captured on video.

The stolen Range Rover was found Monday morning near an abandoned home on Renner Avenue in Newark, about 15 miles from the mall. Police were hoping a surveillance camera positioned across the street from the house might have offered a glimpse of the carjackers, but the device was not working, according to the landlord of the building across the street.

Staff writer James Queally contributed to this report

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