A lawsuit over the carjacking that took the life of a young lawyer at a posh New Jersey mall accuses the owners of skimping on security even though the upscale customers who shop there tend to drive the kinds of luxury vehicles that attract such crimes.

The suit, Friedland v. Taubman Centers, was filed by Jamie Schare Friedland, whose husband, Dustin Friedland, 30, was fatally shot before her eyes in the parking lot of the Mall at Short Hills on Dec. 15 by gunmen who stole his Range Rover SUV.