Providence Police Identify Victim of Broad Street Laundromat Homicide

Providence Police Identify Victim of Broad Street Laundromat Homicide

Providence Police have identified the victim of the city's latest homicide.

It occurred on Broad Street at approximately 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday October 12.

Police say that Melvin Ricardo Perez Reyes, age 38, was shot in an altercation during an attempted robbery inside a laundromat.

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Perez Reyes later died at Rhode Island Hospital. 

This incident remains under investigation.

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It marks the city's 38th homicide in 37 months.

A week prior, a man was shot and killed on Glasgow Street, off Douglas Avenue. 

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