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WPRO News and The Associated Press
A 19-year-old man was shot by someone inside a vehicle as he walked along a Providence street and then run over by the same vehicle, city police said at a news conference Tuesday.
The victim, identified as David Lozada, was walking down Ford Street when he was shot at about 8:30 p.m. Monday, Maj. David Lapatin said.
“It was definitely a targeted event,” he said.
“Well, he was a good kid,” Lozada’s father, Roberto Lozada told WPRO News. He drove from New York City to Rhode Island upon hearing of the killing, and said David Lozada used to live on Ford Street and had returned to Providence from New York to visit family.
“I don’t know if its… something… he had a problem with somebody. That’s what the cops are asking me. I don’t know but I never know that he had problems over here so far that I know of,” the older Lozada said as he stood at the intersection near where his son was shot.
After Lozada was shot, the vehicle followed him and ran him over after he fell to the ground, Lapatin said.
Lozada was taken to Rhode Island Hospital by ambulance and died during surgery, according to the police.
It remains unclear if he died from the bullet wound or from being run over, police said.
The death was the city’s 11th homicide of the year.
No one has been arrested and police are reviewing surveillance video from the neighborhood.
“I just want the police and all the people that was out here and saw anything to say something to the cops and to come forward and let them know,” Roberto Lozada said.
This story has been updated
