Providence Suffers 11th Homicide of Year - One of Three Chad Brown Shooting Victims Dies
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Providence Suffers 11th Homicide of Year - One of Three Chad Brown Shooting Victims Dies
It marks the city’s 11th homicide of the year.
As GoLocal reported, three men were shot on Thursday night in Providence.
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Other Recent Chad Brown Area Shootings - Child Killed in April
On July 21, shortly before 6 AM Friday morning, police responded to Chad Brown at March Street for a report of shots fired.
Police said they spoke with witnesses who said they had heard gunshots and that a car fled the scene at a high rate of speed.
According to police, more than a dozen shell casings were found at the scene, and multiple vehicles were found to have been struck by bullets.
On April 25, shortly after 1 AM, police responded to March Street off of Douglas Avenue for a report of shots fired.
A woman on the scene told police she and another woman had been sitting inside a car when a sedan with tinted windows pulled up and open fired.
When the police arrived, they encountered one woman who was shot; the victim was transported to Rhode Island Hospital.
March Street is in the Chad Brown area. It is the same street in which a 15-year-old was shot and killed in April.
The Chad Brown housing project has been the location for a number of shooting this year. Chad Brown is a post-World War II housing project which was completed in 1951.