A dispute over a stolen PlayStation, some video games and cash led to a shooting death at the Dimond Center last month, according to court documents unsealed Wednesday charging a man with murder.

Terence Clyde Gray, 28, has been charged with first-degree murder in the slaying, though he remains at large, according to police. The warrant seeking his arrest sets his bail at $1 million.

Police say Gray and the victim, 29-year-old Edwing Matos, planned a meeting at the Dimond Center on Feb. 27 to settle a dispute over the property, stolen from Matos a few days earlier.

"The incident occurring at the Dimond Center is basically by happenstance, because it's a well-known place, it's where people congregate," Lt. Dave Koch said. "This was not a stranger incident. It is two men that know each other and there was a personal issue that was resolved in a very inappropriate manner."

According to an affidavit filed in court by homicide detective Milton Jakeway, Matos believed Gray was the man responsible for the burglary at his home a few days earlier in which the PlayStation console, some games and cash had been taken.

They hadn't known each other before the theft but somehow -- police wouldn't say how -- Matos concluded Gray was the thief and called him to get his property back.

"For all we know, it seems like Mr. Matos went in good faith," said Sgt. Slawomir Markiewicz, supervisor of the homicide unit. "We don't have any information that he was armed. We don't have information from witnesses that he was arguing or that he was aggressive. Just the opposite."

Police have confirmed through phone records that Matos and Gray had several conversations in the hours before the shooting, Markiewicz said.

The men initially set up a meeting at Costco on Dimond Boulevard and both arrived there first, the affidavit says. Before they met, however, Gray called and switched the location to the Dimond Center, Markiewicz said.

The affidavit says Gray showed up to the meeting with a .40-caliber pistol. Witnesses reported he was wearing an Afro wig and fake mustache, Markiewicz said.

"A lot of witnesses said that it was so obvious," he said. "They said that it almost looked like a Halloween costume."

Surveillance video shot at the mall shows Matos, who police say was unarmed, and Gray meeting inside while talking on their cell phones, Jakeway wrote. They got together, sat on a bench for about three minutes and talked, according to the affidavit. Witnesses said the discussion did not appear heated or argumentative, police said.

"That meeting came to an end when Gray shot Matos twice from near point blank range," Jakeway wrote. "One witness present at the time of the shooting identified Gray as the person in the disguise. According to witnesses, Gray shot Matos without provocation or justification."

Police found Matos shot in the head and body; he died at Providence Alaska Medical Center a short time later, according to the affidavit.

A friend of Matos' who witnessed the shooting chased the shooter but was stopped outside the mall by an off-duty court services officer for the Alaska State Troopers, the affidavit says. Investigators found a .40-caliber pistol in the friend's possession, though its shell casings did not match those used by the shooter, the document says. He was taken into custody but later released.

Gray fled the scene in a blue and white 1989 Chevrolet Suburban. Police recovered the vehicle several days later, though Gray wasn't in it.

Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to call police at 786-8900.