Four men pleaded not guilty Wednesday to killing a Hoboken attorney in a carjacking last year at a suburban New Jersey mall, reports CBS New York.

The defendants, Hanif Thompson, 29, Basim Henry, 33, Karif Ford, 32, and Kevin Roberts, 35, were arraigned separately Wednesday in an Essex County, N.J. courtroom.

They were indicted last month.

Prosecutors say the men fatally shot 30-year-old Dustin Friedland in front of his wife during the December 2013 carjacking in a mall parking lot in Short Hills, N.J.

Charges against each defendant include murder, felony murder, carjacking, conspiracy and weapons offenses.

Ralph Amirata, director of homicide at the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office, would not say who authorities believe pulled the trigger.

“All four right now considered equally culpable and are all facing the same sentences and the same charges,” Amirata said.

The men face life in prison without parole if convicted.

Friedland and his wife, Jamie, were leaving the shopping center when they were confronted by two armed men. Prosecutors said the couple was targeted for their 2012 Range Rover.

“The four were working together, and the four were targeting that kind of vehicle,” Amirata said.

Jamie Friedland was unharmed, but her husband was shot in the head.

Jamie Friedland’s panic was evident on 911 calls she made after the incident.

“Yes, it’s an emergency,” she says in one call. “I’m at the Shorts Hill Mall parking lot, and my husband has been shot. They called an ambulance a half an hour ago, where is he?”

Recordings of the calls reveal it may have taken as long as 30 minutes for an ambulance to reach Friedland on the upper level of the mall’s parking lot. The ambulance was unable to fit under the parking lot’s ceiling, forcing emergency workers to roll the stretcher up the ramp.

Jamie Friedland, who was not in the courtroom Wednesday, is pursuing a civil wrongful-death lawsuit against the mall’s owners, security contractors and the Millburn-Short Hills Volunteer First Aid Squad.

Bail for the four defendants was set at $2 million each. They are due back in court Dec. 9.

The man killed during a carjacking at the Mall at Short Hills on Sunday night has been identified as Dustin Friedland of Hoboken, an attorney and graduate of Toms River High School North.

The 30-year-old Friedland and his wife, Jamie Schare Friedland, were carjacked on the third-level parking deck at about 9 p.m Sunday after shopping at the mall, authorities said. According to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office, they were approached by two men as Friedland was entering the driver’s side of their 2012 silver Range Rover. He was shot in the head and died at Morristown Medical Center shortly before midnight. His wife was not injured, authorities said.

Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn Murray, in a Sunday night press conference at the mall, said: “Preliminary information is we’re looking for two African-American males who left the scene in that vehicle.”

The Prosecutor’s Office also confirmed the Range Rover was located in a Newark garage in the 200 block of Renner Avenue on Monday morning.

According to their professional profiles on LinkedIn, Friedland was an attorney with Epic Mechanical and his wife is also an attorney, specializing in landlord tenant law at a New York firm. Both were graduates of Syracuse University’s School of Law. The Asbury Park Press reported that Friedland was also a 2002 graduate of Toms River High School North.

The mall was put on lockdown following the incident but police say there was no immediate threat to anyone inside the mall and the lockdown was lifted.

There were no real visible signs of panic outside the mall and no one was evacuated reports the Star-Ledger.

7 ABC reports Short Hills and Millburn police set up road blocks to find the car and the mall, open until 9 p.m. for holiday shopping according to the mall’s website..

The Short Hills Mall is located in Short Hills near Route 24. It is an upscale mall whose stores include Bloomingdale’s, Macy’s, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom and Saks Fifth Avenue and 150 “boutique stores.”

The Essex County Sheriff’s Crime Stoppers program is offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the suspects in this case. Anyone with information about the shooting or the suspects should call the Essex County Prosecutor’s Tipline at 1 (877) 847-7432.