PROVIDENCE — Two youths were wounded by gunfire in unrelated incidents in Smith Hill and Elmwood over the weekend, according to the police.

About 24 hours before the Smith Hill shooting, two houses and three cars were shot up in the same neighborhood.

“We’re definitely investigating them as all being related to an ongoing gang feud,” Detective Capt. Hugh T. Clements Jr. said yesterday, referring to those Smith Hill incidents and others. He said the police have focused on the gang violence and recently have taken three guns away from gang members.

In one weekend incident, three youths were sitting on a porch at 65 Osborn St., Smith Hill, when someone apparently fired three shots, the police said. A 15-year-old youth, who lives in the neighborhood and whom the police identified as a member of an Asian gang, was treated at Hasbro Children’s Hospital for wounds in his right thigh and left buttock.

None of the youths said they had seen the person who fired the shots or knew if the shots had been fired from a passing car. The incident occurred shortly after 2:30 a.m. Saturday.

In the other wounding, Mark Williams, 19, of 141 Lenox Ave., Elmwood, was struck by a bullet in an apparent drive-by shooting at about 4:30 a.m. Sunday, the police reported. Williams was treated for an injury to his left foot at Rhode Island Hospital.

Williams and one or more witnesses said they heard three or four shots as Williams climbed the front stairs to his house at 141 Lenox.

Smith Hill, which is a hotbed of Asian gang violence, was the scene of two more shooting incidents early Friday in which objects, but not people, were struck. Clements said detectives are proceeding on a theory that those two incidents, as well as the wounding of the 15-year-old the next day and an incident Wednesday in which two shots were fired into the Smith Hill apartment of the leader of the Tiny Rascal gang, are linked.

The police were called to the vicinity of Bernon and Candace streets and Bernon and Goddard streets, Smith Hill, shortly before 2 a.m. Friday for two reports of gunshots having been fired. But they were unable to find a crime scene.

About 15 minutes later, though, Hector Rosado, 22, of 446 Chalkstone Ave., called the police to complain that someone had fired a bullet into his car, which was parked in a parking lot near 442 Chalkstone, Smith Hill. Officers found five shell casings in the street in front of 440 and 442 Chalkstone and saw that a bullet had penetrated the windshield of Rosado’s car.

In addition, the police saw that bullets had struck two other parked cars and a window casing of a house at 440 Chalkstone.

At about 7:30 a.m., the police were called to a house at 51 Wayne St., Smith Hill, after the homeowner discovered a bullet hole in the wall of her kitchen and a slug on the kitchen floor. The wall faces Chalkstone.

Vivian Hernandez, 32, said she had heard a loud noise overnight, and that a projectile had knocked a picture off the kitchen wall when it passed through from the outside.

Clements disclosed that the police recently have confiscated three guns from gang members.

“We are keeping the pressure on this Asian gang activity,” he said.

The first seizure occurred April 12, when the police stopped a Dodge Caravan whose operator they said was speeding and ignoring traffic signs in the West End. Patrolmen Scott Petrocchi and Shawn Kennedy of the police gang unit seized a shotgun from the vehicle, which they said was carrying members of the Dark Side gang. The Dark Side gang, according to the police, recently has been fighting with three other gangs: Hanover Boyz, Providence Street Boys and Laos Pride.

The second gang-related seizure occurred Wednesday as Detective Sarkis Zeitountzian was investigating the incident in which shots were fired into the Smith Hill apartment of Viceth “Sniper” Som, leader of the Tiny Rascals gang. Zeitountzian approached Wayne Johnson, 20, of 44 Grape St., Wanskuck, who was walking on Goddard Street, and asked him if he had seen a vehicle suspected of being connected to the apartment shooting.

But Johnson ran away, the police said. A chase ensued, during which the police said Johnson threw aside a handgun wrapped in a sock and a bag containing seven bullets. He was caught and charged with possessing a pistol without a license.

The third seizure occurred Sunday, as Patrolman Eugene Chin was on routine patrol and he encountered a man and a woman struggling in front of a house at 224 Hanover St., in the West End, known as a hangout for the Dark Side gang. From the man, the police took a backpack covered with gang insignia, and inside, found a loaded revolver, a sawed-off customized bat suitable for use as a weapon and a do-rag that symbolized his gang colors.

The police charged the man, Serey Long, 19, of 222 Messer St., in the West End, with carrying an unlicensed pistol.

In a fourth gun seizure that Clements said was not gang-related, members of the police gun task force were patrolling the vicinity of Congress Avenue, Elmwood, in an unmarked vehicle Friday when they spotted men coming and going from the side door of a house that was supposed to be vacant. They went inside and, they said, found a loaded handgun hidden beneath a loose floor heating vent.

They charged Justin Hartsfield, 19, of 33 Autumn St., South Providence, with possession of an unlicensed firearm. Clements credited Patrolmen Thomas Zincone and Louis Gianfrancesco with the seizure and arrest.

gsmith@projo.com