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September 28, 2006

Police ID Lincoln shooting victim

LINCOLN -- The police have identified the man found shot in the head Tuesday night on a road near the Pawtucket town line as John Cancel, 33, of 39 Jenks Avenue, Central Falls.

Police Chief Robert T. Kells said Cancel was still on life-support at Rhode Island Hospital after he was apparently shoved form a vehicle on Cobble Hill Road at about 10 p.m. Tuesday.

The local police are trying to locate a blue/green Plymouth Voyager van that was seen in the area around 10:15 p.m. Tuesday. A witness who was walking home from Lincoln Park around that time told the police he heard was he thought sounded like fireworks, Kells said. The witness then found Cancel, with a gunshot wound to the head, lying on the ground on Cobble Hill Road near its intersection with Route 246, Old Louisquisset Pike.

The police yesterday were operating on the theory that Cancel was shot in the van and then pushed out of the vehicle, which is believed to have headed north on Route 246, Kells said.

-- Journal staff writer John Hill

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