PROVIDENCE — Nine people were shot and another six were stabbed in a rash of violent incidents over the three-day holiday weekend, the police reported. None of the victims apparently suffered a life-threatening wound.

There were three more shootings, according to the police, in which nobody was struck by a bullet. In one case a shooter fired at a man six times but missed; in a second case, a youth was shot in the stomach with a BB; and in another case, four shots were fired into the air near a house in Smith Hill that was hit by bullets six days earlier.

The police gang unit was sent to investigate at least four of the gun-related incidents because of suspicions that Asian gang members were involved.

In another gun-related incident, Jesus Titin, 28, of Providence, the proprietor of Mi Sueno restaurant and nightclub in South Providence, said he was forced to pull out his concealed handgun early Monday when someone showing a gun drove into the parking lot of his club. The car drove off and no shots were fired.

Counting the BB gun shooting, the weekend outburst brings to at least 12 the number of shooting victims in the week from Aug. 6 through Aug.13.

Maj. Stephen Campbell, commander of the police Investigative Division, sought to put the spasm of violence into context by pointing out that nobody was shot in Providence for 40 days prior to a shooting that occurred July 22. He said yesterday that the Police Department has responded to the most recent violence by making an extra effort to distribute packages of pertinent intelligence to all detectives and patrol officers. The plainclothes gang unit has been shifted to later work times and told to patrol on foot in the Asian gang hot spots, including Bernon, Wayne, Osborn and Goddard streets in Smith Hill and Waverly and Hanover streets in the West End.

“Many times the people that are being shot at are individuals who have criminal histories,” Campbell said. “Many times they are being shot at for a reason.”

The first weekend shooting occurred between 2:30 a.m. and 3 a.m. Saturday outside Paulie’s pizzeria at 326 Cranston St. in the West End. Kiplagott Stewart, 33, a felon whose last known address is 185 Benedict St., and Antonio Tavares, 26, of 50 Morris Ave., were both shot by an unidentified assailant with a black bandanna over his face.

Then two cousins, Savann Phin, 21, of 30 Goddard, and Kan Hosp Bou, 20, of 24 Bernon, were struck in an apparent drive-by shooting in front of Bou’s house at about 2:15 a.m. Sunday. Bou was among the more seriously injured of the weekend victims, with a bullet having passed through his arm and chest, according to the police.

A 17-year-old Smith Hill resident and witness, who accompanied the victims to the hospital, identified himself to the police as a member of the Tiny Rascals Asian gang.

At about the same time as the Smith Hill shooting, Keivan Deleon, 21, of 27 Armington St., and Jose L. Garcia, 18, of 88 Bowdoin St., were shot on Julian Street in Olneyville, apparently after an altercation.

Sunday night, at about 11:15 p.m., a young man ran out from behind 15 Desoto St., Olneyville, and fired six errant 9mm rounds at Arthur J. Wright, 18, of 295 Grove St., who ran from his masked assailant, the police reported. Two of the bullets struck the front of a house at 284 Grove.

In a discovery that Campbell said may be related to the Desoto Street incident, a patrolman early yesterday morning spotted a man bend down in front of a car parked in a driveway at 895 Atwells Ave., Mount Pleasant, and then take a shiny metallic object from his pants pocket and throw it into a bush.

Officers said they found a 9mm semiautomatic pistol tucked into the grille of the car and an extra magazine for the pistol in the bush. They charged Daniel Duong, 24, of 895 Atwells, with possession of a firearm without a permit.

The observant patrolman was Patrick Potter, who Campbell called “one of our stars” on the police force.

The final shooting occurred at about 1:15 a.m. Monday during a backyard party at 168 Waverly, which the police described as a known hangout of the Dark Side Asian gang.

Someone fired five or six shots from behind thick shrubbery at 179 Althea St., the police said, and three young men were wounded: a 16-year-old resident of Dexter Street; Sophea Hem, 18, of 168 Waverly; and Sareivouth Cheam, 18, of 22 Ticknor St. A young man wearing a red bandanna over his face was seen running from the area.

In another incident of gunfire in Smith Hill that is seen as gang-related, the police said a 15-year-old resident of 125 Wayne St. reported that a youth wearing a black baseball cap and a gray-hooded sweatshirt that obscured his face fired four or five shots near the house shortly after 7 p.m. Monday. Four 9mm shell casings were found in the side yard of a house at 51 Bernon.

On Aug. 7, a youth wearing a black-hooded sweatshirt fired a gun in front of 125 Wayne and one of the bullets struck the house, according to the police. Three shell casings were found in the street in front of 51 Bernon.

In the BB gun incident, a 15-year-old was treated at Hasbro Children’s Hospital after having been shot in the stomach by a pellet gun Sunday afternoon as he walked on Public Street in South Providence.

There were five stabbing incidents from Friday night through early Monday morning, according to police reports, in which six people were hurt. They included an attack late Sunday night that occurred at Broad and Sackett streets amid the Dominican Festival. A 16-year-old Adelaide Avenue resident was knifed in the back and left hand and treated at Rhode Island Hospital.

Some police commanders stayed on duty until the wee hours to ensure that the festival ran smoothly, and Police Chief Dean M. Esserman was at Rhode Island Hospital until about 3 a.m. Sunday, checking on the victims of the unrelated Waverly shooting. Esserman’s presence in the middle of the night, Campbell said, is an example of the seriousness of purpose that the police are bringing to the outburst of violence.

gsmith@projo.com