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July 11, 2007

Update: No decision yet on La Rumba's license

PROVIDENCE -- There was no decision today about the fate of La Rumba by the city Board of Licenses, which is considering a police request to revoke the nightclub's liquor license after an 18-year-old man was killed there.

Board Chairman Andrew J. Annaldo said the board will make a decision on the license within five days.

Darren Reagans, the 18-year-old who was killed, was stabbed to death outside La Rumba on the Fourth of July. A police officer testified at the licensing hearing today that Reagans was the victim of an apparent retaliation.

Patrolman Joseph A. Mignano Jr. testified that an eyewitness who was a cousin of Reagans told him that a man who attacked Reagans said at the outset of the attack, "You got my boy" or "You did something to my boy."

The remark indicated that the attack was "some sort of retaliation" for something that occurred at a previous time, Mignano said.

No arrests have been made in the slaying.

Yesterday, the mothers of six young people who lost their lives held a news conference in South Providence to advocate nonviolence.

-- Journal staff writer Gregory Smith

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