EDITORIAL: 36 Hours in RI -- 3 Dead and 3 Wounded by Guns

EDITORIAL: 36 Hours in RI -- 3 Dead and 3 Wounded by Guns

In 36 hours, three people were shot dead, and three wounded in Rhode Island.

On Wednesday, three Rhode Islanders died — two at the hands of James Harrison on Wednesday morning, including his mother and his neighbor.

And the 15-year-old neighbor girl was also shot by Harrison.

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A few hours later, Harrison was killed by a flurry of shots by police officers.

Three dead, one child wounded.

 

On Wednesday night, a woman in her 20s was shot in a drug deal gone bad.

Three dead, two wounded.

 

On Thursday around noon, a man was picked up by an Uber outside a Providence Hotel and was shot moments later while sitting in the back of the car service stopped at the intersection just outside of the AMP.

The Uber driver rushed the passenger to Rhode Island Hospital.

Three dead, three wounded.

 

Thursday night, dozens of Providence and Rhode Island State Police responded to reports of gunshots and a man with a long gun dressed in camouflage in a Providence neighborhood.

 

Mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, adults, and children.

 

It's just math.