Killing in a Cranston Neighborhood

6.5.08
WARWICK -- District Court Judge Elaine Bucci denied bail Wednesday for Nicholas Gianquitti, the Cranston man accused of shooting his neighbor James A. Pagano last month in a dispute that began with a child's stray tennis ball. Gianquitti, who had no visible reaction to the ruling, will remain at the Adult Correctional Institutions while the state seeks a grand jury indictment.

6.4.08
In the tape of the 911 call made after Cranston firefighter James Pagano was shot, his neighbor and alleged killer states his case.

6.3.08
A week after burying James A. Pagano, at St. Ann's Cemetery in Cranston, Pagano's father, sister and nephew take the stand Monday to testify at a bail hearing for Gianquitti before District Court Judge Elaine Bucci.

5.26.08
Whatever happens in the court system with Nicholas Gianquitti, the case of the man accused of killing his neighbor last Sunday has raised questions about whether he can continue to get his city pension.

5.25.08
They grew up together, dozens of them, a crew of Irish, Italians and Poles, who took their name from a Cranston neighborhood of trim ranches and tidy lawns at the center of their childhood.

5.24.08
By the hundreds they came yesterday, the wrenched family and friends and fellow firefighters of James Pagano, each taking their proper place in a formal procession of grief -- and disbelief.

5.23.08
The line of mourners, more than 100 deep during the first hour of Pagano's wake, stretched around the Nardolillo Funeral Home and past the American flag at half-staff. One word was repeated down the line, in whispers and with shaking heads: Tragedy.

5.21.08
James Pagano, the 44-year-old Cranston firefighter who police say was killed by a neighbor Sunday, died from a single gunshot to the torso, according to yesterday's autopsy.