PROVIDENCE — A suspect has been captured in the shooting death here of a gang member from Boston whose gang, the police say, is quickly being whittled down by gunfire.

Acting on an arrest warrant obtained by the Providence police, a fugitive-search unit in Massachusetts yesterday arrested Dana Gallop on a charge that he killed Anthony Parrish, 24, of Boston, outside a Providence nightclub Dec. 14.

Gallop, of 692 Massachusetts Ave., Boston, is a member of another gang in Boston, said Maj. Thomas F. Oates III, commander of the Providence police Investigative Division. Oates alleged that Gallop killed Parrish as a result of a feud or dispute in Boston.

Parrish was a member of the so-called Wainwright Street gang in Boston, of which four members including Parrish have been shot to death since Nov. 26, according to the Providence police. The most recent slaying was Monday night, in the Dorchester section of Boston. Parrish’s nickname was “Bundy” or “Bundl,” and he had “a long rap sheet” including an acquittal for murder, the Providence police said.

“Unfortunately, this was a Boston murder that visited Providence,” Oates said of his slaying.

The slaying of Parrish occurred at about 2:30 a.m. Sunday outside Passion, a nightclub at 6 Portland St., South Providence, where he had been a customer.

“He was apparently running away from some type of confrontation and he was shot” once in the back, Oates said.

Another Passion patron, and innocent bystander, London Hardy, 36, of Malden, Mass., was wounded by a stray bullet as he stood outside a vehicle, speaking to his sister and another woman inside, according to the police. A bullet penetrated his small intestine and he was hospitalized for a time.

With the help of witnesses, according to Oates, the police identified Gallop as a suspect and obtained a warrant charging him with murder. A unit consisting of the Boston police, Massachusetts state police and U.S. marshal’s office apprehended him in Somerville, outside Boston.

“Providence police detectives continue to distinguish themselves by bringing people to justice, even when needing to reach across state lines,” Police Chief Dean M. Esserman said in a statement. Detective Lt. Paul Campbell, Detective Sgt. Vincent Mansolillo and Detectives Daniel O’Connell and Michael Fallon have conducted the investigation in cooperation with the Boston police.

Gallop is being held in a Cambridge, Mass., jail and he is scheduled to appear today for an extradition hearing in Somerville District Court.

If he waives extradition, he will be returned to Providence for arraignment today in District Court or a special arraignment on Christmas before a bail commissioner at police headquarters.

Gallop himself was a shooting victim in Boston in 2003, according to Boston.com, the Web site of The Boston Globe. As he walked from his grandmother’s house, 30 shots were fired and he was wounded in the chest.

Gang members from Boston have been patronizing clubs in Providence, and especially Passion, according to police testimony last week at a hearing held by the Providence Board of Licenses. Most of Passion’s clientele is from Massachusetts, according to Patrolman James Grennan, who frequently works an off-duty security detail outside the club.

As a result of the killing of Parrish and the wounding of Hardy, the board ordered the proprietors to tighten security at Passion, which generally is open only on Saturday nights and for most of its 18 years in business had been known as Jovan’s.

Erist Crouch, one of the proprietors, said that he also intends to install exterior surveillance cameras and, on Jan. 1, to change the name back to Jovan’s.

gsmith@projo.com