A police investigator watches material scooped out of a sewer on Broadway in Pawtucket near the shooting scene.

PAWTUCKET — The brother of a Pawtucket police captain was shot to death yesterday while walking on Broadway toward downtown at 4:30 a.m. to catch the bus to work.

Carl M. Seebeck, 63, a longtime resident of Pawtucket, had picked up coffee at the Dunkin’ Donuts just after 4 a.m. at Broadway and Center Street and had walked down Broadway as he did every morning, according to Detective Maj. John Whiting.

Buses do not stop on Broadway at that time of the morning, so Seebeck was walking to the bus stop in front of the visitor’s center on Roosevelt Avenue, according to the police.. He was headed to Providence where he works at a parking garage, Whiting said.

Seebeck is the brother of Detective Capt. John Seebeck, a 34-year member of the force who administers the prosecution bureau.

Sam Sullivan, the building superintendent at V.J. Doyle Manor, who lives in the elderly housing complex at 300 Broadway, said he was awake when he heard a loud bang outside around 4:30 a.m. When he heard the sound, he said he throught it was someone smashing the glass on the bus shelter in front of the manor, as someone had done recently.

When he looked out his window he said he saw a young man with a hooded sweatshirt running across the Doyle Manor parking lot heading toward Broadway.

When Sullivan went outside to the parking lot he said he saw Seebeck lying on Broadway near Blackstone Street about five feet from the curb. He called the rescue.

Seebeck, who was shot under left arm, was taken to Memorial Hospital and later died as a result of his injury, the police said. Whiting said the attack appeared to be random and may have been the result of an attempted robbery.

The death was a blow to the Police Department. “The department is very much impacted. John is a well-liked, well-respected officer. His brother was known to many, particularly the older men in the department,” Whiting said.

Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch, whose family has known the Seebeck family for years, issued a statement yesterday. “I offer my deepest sympathies to Carl Seebeck’s wife, Christine, and to the entire Seebeck family for the senseless tragedy that has befallen them, and for the pain and suffering they will endure in the days, months, and years ahead. Carl Seebeck was a hard-working man who cared about his family and community…With the public’s assistance, the police and my prosecutors can do our very best to apprehend the killer, prosecute the killer to the fullest extent of the law and ensure that Carl Seebeck did not die in vain.”

Earlier in the day the police conducted an intense investigation on Broadway for several hours. They shut down a section of the road and kept moving the “do not cross” perimeter farther along Broadway. Investigators were sorting through trash, dredging the sewers and searching along the gutters for clues and possibly the gun that was used. About a dozen official vehicles and investigators were combing the streets for a few blocks.

Yesterday, someone had placed a basket with pink chrysanthemums in it and two candles in front of the Berry Uniform Co., on Broadway, just a few feet from where Seebeck had been found.

Whiting asked that anyone who may have seen something unusual between the hours of 3:30 a.m. and 5 a.m. in the area of Broadway to contact the police at (401) 727-9100 extension 726, or 712 after hours. The police said callers will remain anonymous.

With reports by projo.com staff writer Brandie Jefferson

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