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Providence shooting victim is city’s 17th homicide of year
01:00 AM EST on Saturday, November 7, 2009
PROVIDENCE — City police have announced that a man was found fatally wounded on Aldrich Street early Friday.
The police withheld the victim’s name pending notification of next of kin. They gave his age as 26, and said he lived at 18 Burnside St.
Officers were called to Broad and Aldrich streets around 1:15 a.m. when someone reported a shooting.
The victim was found with gunshot wounds to the torso, investigators said. He was pronounced dead at Rhode Island Hospital.
Investigators said the victim had had an argument with a suspect inside Club Platinum, 1206 Broad St. They said they were questioning witnesses.
Club Platinum was warned by the city’s Board of Licenses after several acts of violence earlier this year.
The board fined the club $500 after one or two stabbings in May and an incident June 7 in which a man fought with the police.
This was the 17th homicide in Providence this year.
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