(Photo by JEFFREY HASTINGS) Dzemal Cardakovic was driving the tractor-trailer cab at left when he and another driver reportedly engaged in a road-rage incident on South Willow Street Saturday. Medical personnel tend to Cardakovic, who was pronounced deceased at the scene.

The younger man, identified by police as Manchester resident Tyrese Harris, age 22, allegedly pulled out a gun and fired at the older man, 45-year-old Dzemal Cardakovic, said to be a Londonderry resident and a native of Bosnia who came to the U.S. about 20 years ago.

Cardakovic collapsed in the street a few yards from his tractor cab. Life-saving efforts were unsuccessful; he was pronounced deceased at the scene, according to a statement from the office of Attorney General John Formella and Manchester police Chief Allan Aldenberg.

Come Sunday morning, Formella and Aldenberg announced that Harris had been arrested and was in custody, charged with two counts of second-degree murder. One count accuses Harris of “knowingly causing the death of Dzemal Cardakovic by shooting him with a firearm; the second count accuses him of causing Cardakovic’s death “under circumstances manifesting an extreme indifference to the value of human life” by shooting him with a firearm.

Harris was booked on the charges and ordered held in jail pending arraignment, a date for which has not yet been scheduled by the court, Formella said.

(Photo by JEFFREY HASTINGS) A Manchester police officer communicates with other responders while another surveys the scene where Dzemal Cardakovic was fatally shot Saturday afternoon, when he exited the cab of his truck, visible in foreground and at right.

Suspects held in jail are typically arraigned on the next business day, which in this case would be this morning in Hillsborough County Superior Court North.

Indications are that the two drivers may have been involved in a road-rage episode just before the fatal confrontation, but that hasn’t been confirmed by investigators.

Formella’s statement did say that “multiple witnesses” called to report a person had been shot in the road, and first-arriving officers and medical personnel found a man, later identified as Cardakovic, unresponsive in the street suffering from an apparent gunshot wound.

The subsequent closure of South Willow Street at the main access road to the mall, which is across from the intersection of South Willow and Kaye streets, gridlocked the already heavy traffic well into Saturday evening as officers and detectives conducted their on-scene investigation.

Dean Shalhoup may be reached at 594-1256 or dshalhoup@nashuatelegraph.com.

Tyrese Harris, age 22, of Manchester

(Photo by JEFFREY HASTINGS) Police and emergency medical personnel tend to Dzemal Cardakovic, who is lying in the middle of South Willow Street between Manchester Engine 3 and the tractor trailer cab in background that he was driving when he was shot to death mid-afternoon Saturday.