RALEIGH, N.C. — A crowd gathered here on Monday to denounce the killing of a black man shot earlier in the day after a foot chase with a police officer.

About 200 people gathered for a vigil in the neighborhood south of downtown where, the police, say an officer shot a suspect wanted for a felony drug charge.

Raleigh police did not identify the man who was killed. But people who live near the scene of the shooting identified him as Akiel Denkins, 24.

Mr. Denkins’s mother, Rolanda Byrd, told reporters that she understood that it was her son who was killed, but said that the police had yet to tell her.