Police probe fatal early morning shooting in Pawtucket

Pawtucket Police headquarters. File photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News

PAWTUCKET, R.I. (AP) — Police in Pawtucket are investigating an early morning shooting that left a 20-year-old man dead.

Police in a statement said officers and firefighters responded to a Benefit Street address at around 1:15 a.m. Thursday and found the man inside a vehicle suffering from a gunshot wound.

Police say he was taken to Rhode Island Hospital in Providence were he was pronounced dead.

The shooting is being investigated as a homicide.

No additional information, including the victim’s name, was made public.

The shooting remains under investigation and there was no word an any arrests.

 

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