Aftermath of shooting in Washington Park: 9 injured, all expected to recover Mark Reynolds and Katie Mulvaney, The Providence Journal
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PROVIDENCE Bristling with semi-automatic pistols, the four young men rode to the shooting in a four-door pickup truck, traveling along Tennessee Avenue on Thursday evening in a Dodge Ram with a Tennessee license plate.
In the Washington Park neighborhood, they turned onto Carolina Avenue and pulled up to a house where five or six people were either on the porch or nearby.
The visitors climbed out of the truck and opened fire, unleashing at least 40 rounds and drawing return fire from at least two people on the porch.
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Opinion/Elorza and Rivera: Rhode Island is a leader in gun safety – it’s time to keep leading
Jorge O. Elorza and Maria Rivera
Jorge O. Elorza is the mayor of Providence. Maria Rivera is the mayor of Central Falls. Both are members of Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
Over the past decade, Rhode Island lawmakers have helped make our state one of the safest in the country. They’ve made sure that every gun sale in our state goes through a background check, passed an extreme risk law, disarmed domestic abusers, and tackled the growing threat of ghost guns.
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City denies responsibility for police-involved moped crash of Jhamal Gonsalves
The City of Providence is denying responsibility for a police-involved moped crash that left a 24-year-old in a coma last year.
In a motion filed Monday in U.S. District Court, the city along with Public Safety Commissioner Steven Paré and Police Chief Hugh T. Clements Jr. rejected allegations that Paré and Clements behaved “with reckless disregard and deliberate indifference in hiring, screening and training” Officers Kyle Endres and Brad McParlin.
Both officers were involved in the October incident in which Jhamal Gonsalves sustained a traumatic brain injury after being thrown from his moped. The motion also refutes claims that Paré and Clements neglected to provide the officers with “adequate training, education and discipline.” Rather than wading into whether the officers were culpable, the motion denies that the city, Paré and Clements are at fault.