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October 13, 2006

Update: Victim of barroom fight ID'd as Providence man

Journal photo / Kathy Borchers
At the scene of the killing, police Maj. Stephen Campbell, center, talks with Providence firefighters.

PROVIDENCE – The police have identified the man killed early this morning after a bar fight in the Elmwood neighborhood.

David De La Rosa Ruiz, 36, of Providence, was found in the middle of Public Street lying in a pool of blood when authorities responded to the Comfort Zone nightclub at 702-704 Public St., according to police Capt. Hugh Clements.

Authorities have not yet determined how Ruiz was killed but say the murder was connected to a fight in the barroom of the nightclub around the 1 a.m. closing time.

No one has been arrested at this point, and the police continue to interview others in the nightclub last night, Clements said.

The state Medical Examiner’s Office was to have conducted an autopsy on the body this morning, Clements said.

-- projo.com staff writer Kate Bramson

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