PROVIDENCE –– Two nightclubs near where two young men were slain over the last week were closed temporarily by the city Board of Licenses yesterday.

Club Passion, on Portland Street in Upper South Providence, and Level II, on Richmond Street downtown, both risk revocation of their entertainment licenses when the board holds an emergency hearing tomorrow.

The city’s move came a day after a 24-year-old Dorchester, Mass., man was shot to death and another man wounded in gunfire outside Club Passion.

Anthony Parrish, known as “Bundy” or “Bundl,” had traveled with others to Club Passion, a music venue attracting people from Massachusetts, said Providence police Maj. Thomas Oates. As people left the club early Sunday, gunfire erupted outside.

Parrish had run and collapsed at Portland and Hayward streets, by the nightclub. He was pronounced dead at Rhode Island Hospital –– the 13th homicide victim in the city this year.

A police officer who was working a detail in Club Passion, testified that he found another man, London Hardy, 36, shot and wounded about 30 feet from the club entrance. Hardy, whose wounds were not life-threatening, is not believed to be connected to Parrish, Oates said.

Just four years ago, Parrish was acquitted of murdering a man outside an under-21 nightclub in Roxbury, Mass. A month after his acquittal, he was arrested again for allegedly cornering one of the witnesses in the murder case, putting a gun to the man’s head and twice pulling the trigger.

The gun didn’t go off and the witness intimidation case was later dismissed after a comprehensive review of the evidence, said Suffolk County district attorney spokesman Jake Wark.

Parrish is known to the Boston police, whose gang squad and homicide detectives met with the Providence detectives on Sunday, said Oates. Parrish was affiliated with a gang in a Dorchester neighborhood; the police are investigating whether those ties are related to his killing.

Last week, the police arrested a suspected gang member for a fatal stabbing outside the Level II nightclub. Narin Kheng, 27, who has ties to the Cranston Asian Boyz, is accused of stabbing a 22-year-old Norwich, Conn., man in a confrontation as the nightclub closed on the night of Dec. 6. Kheng and a friend, Antonio DiSano, had left Level II when they confronted Jeremy M. Olearnick and his friends coming from another nearby nightclub. Olearnick was assaulted and stabbed. DiSano was charged with simple assault, and Kheng with murder.

Yesterday, Mayor David N. Cicilline recommended that Level II’s license be permanently revoked after a “pattern of violations” over the past year that included serving alcohol to minors, overcrowding and violence inside and outside of the club.

“They have lost the privilege of operating a business in the city of Providence,” Cicilline told the Board of Licenses. “They’ve shown a disregard to the rules and regulations of nightclubs and shown that they are … a threat to the public safety of our city residents and visitors.”

Level II is run by Club Heat Inc., a Providence business owned by Louis Peters, of Cumberland. According to city records, the club has been fined $750 this year on four counts, including an underage drinking violation on March 29 and an over-occupancy violation from a May 23 incident. Peters did not respond to a call to his office or his home yesterday.

Cicilline did not make any recommendation regarding Club Passion. City records show no violations this year at Club Passion; however the club has been hit with a total of $1,050 in fines stemming from violations in 2006 and 2007. Club Passion is run by Jovan’s Lounge LTD, a Providence company that is owned by Ertis Crouch, of Providence. Crouch did not respond to a call to his office yesterday.

When asked by the board yesterday if the club posed a public safety threat, Police Maj. Paul Fitzgerald said yes.

“Despite our best efforts of having officers detailed to the club, there was still an incident not 50 to 60 feet from where they were standing,” he said.

pmarcelo@projo.com