A gunshot struck the roof of an 18-year-old man’s car just 8 to 10 inches above his head in an apparent random shooting at a Hilo shopping center parking lot, court documents show.

Desmond Lee Kepano, 29, made his initial appearance in Hilo District Court on Thursday on charges of attempted second-degree murder, four counts of first-degree terroristic threatening and one count each of resisting arrest and resisting an order to stop. The judge increased bail to $420,000 from $294,000. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Monday.

Noah Surigao, whose car was struck, told police he “thought that he was going to die” when a stranger fired a handgun at him from 10 feet away, a Hawaii County police report said.

At about 10 p.m. Monday, police responded to a report of a man in a white Jeep who fired several gunshots at a group of people — four men ages 18 and 19, and a 20-year-old woman — who were standing near their vehicles in a parking lot in proximity to McDonald’s at Puainako Center, 2100 Kanoelehua Ave.

No injuries were reported, but two vehicles were struck multiple times by bullets.

Surigao told police Kepano was “yelling at them in a challenging manner, saying something to the effect of ‘What you guys looking at?,’ ‘You guys get eye problems,’” a police report said.

Russell Ragual, 19, said he was in the front seat of his friend’s car when the Jeep pulled up and the driver began yelling at him and his friends. The gunman fired one shot at Surigao and four more shots that hit another vehicle next to Surigao’s.

Reisha Hoopii-Haslam, 20, told police she was sitting in the front seat of her friend’s car and was just 5 to 8 feet from where one of the cars was hit and 10 feet from the gunman. Another witness heard five shots fired.

Kepano was arrested after leading responding officers on a chase.