Providence Police Announce Arrests in Homicide Outside Illegal After-Hours Operation

Providence Police Announce Arrests in Homicide Outside Illegal After-Hours Operation

Providence police have announced arrests in the homicide that occurred outside an illegal after-hours operation in the city. 

In the incident that occurred on January 16, in which Biniam Tsegai, 35, of Portland, Maine, was shot and killed at the corner of Elmwood Avenue and Potters Avenue and  Merhawi Berhe, 28, of Cambridge, Massachusetts was shot and injured, police have arrested three suspects. 

Police have arrested a 17-year-old male from Fall River who sources said shot both men, and also arrested two accomplices — Brendan Bindig, 26, of Fall River, and Jeffrey Sek, 25, of Attleboro.

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According to police, two more men are arrested in conjunction with the homicide. 

As GoLocal reported following the shooting: 

Ssegai, age 35, of Portland, Maine — had reported ties to the Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. 

In 2014, the Bangor Daily News reported that Biniam “Icy” Tsegai, 28, had been sentenced to eight years in prison for his role in a crack cocaine trafficking conspiracy in Maine’s largest city between November 2010 and February 2012, according to the U.S. attorney’s office

A May 13 Los Angeles Times report cited Department of Justice documents indicating that the 9 mm semiautomatic Ruger allegedly used by Tamerlan Tsarnaev to shoot at pursuing police officers in Watertown, Massachusetts, after the Boston Marathon bombing was purchased at Cabella’s in Scarborough by Danny Sun Jr. of South Portland, originally of Los Angeles,” the Daily News reported. 

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