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August 24, 2007

Update: Drive-by shooting in Providence wounds two

PROVIDENCE -- A white minivan rolled down Bellevue Avenue in the West End, and someone in the vehicle flashed the peace sign to two men sitting on the front porch of a house.

A few minutes later, the minivan returned, and this time, a passenger began firing a gun. The two men on the porch were wounded but not seriously.

This incident, according to the police, occurred at about 11 p.m. yesterday at 66 Bellevue. Shot once in the leg was Saran Mam, 42, of 97 Wesleyan Ave., Elmwood, and shot once in the hand was Bunnara Nara Chao, 20, of 140 Bridgham St., in the West End.

All told, four to five shots were fired. Chao told the police that he knows the driver of the minivan as Shorty.

Maj. Stephen Campbell said detectives are aggressively investigating the incident.

In an unrelated shooting, the police Thursday night arrested a 16-year-old Smith Hill youth and charged him with conspiracy to commit felony assault. The charge stems from the shooting of Alexander Reigosa, 34, of 51 Wayne St., Smith Hill, who was shot Tuesday night after an argument with another youth behind a house on Chalkstone Avenue.

Campbell said the 16-year-old youth, who did not fire the round that struck Reigosa in the face, was ordered held at the Rhode Island Training School. Reigosa is recovering in the hospital.

-- Journal staff writer Gregory Smith

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