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April 15, 2008

Update: Man, 19, wounded in Providence shooting

Journal photo/Bill Murphy
Providence Police at the scene of a shooting this morning where about a dozen shell casings were found. Both the victim and shooter were gone by the time police arrived.

PROVIDENCE -- The man shot and wounded this morning on Harvard Avenue has been identified as 19-year-old Donald Young of Providence, according to police reports.

Young, of 23 Robin St., was shot once in the right thigh, a non-life threatening injury, according to police, and taken by a relative to Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. He also scraped his hand when he fell running from the scene.

Police said they received a call at about 10:30 a.m. from someone reporting gunshots at 39-41 Harvard Ave.

About a dozen shell casings were found in the street outside the building, a duplex with a historical plaque that reads "William Halton House." There are also bullet holes in the building's ground floor window.

Maj. Paul C. Fitzgerald said this morning that police believe the shooter left in a Ford Explorer. Witnesses said they saw the person who was shot leave in a car. Fitzgerald said no victim or suspect was at the scene, but a male with gunshot wounds was located by police at the hospital.

-- projo.com staff writers Michael P. McKinney and Brandie M. Jefferson, with reports from Journal staff writer Gregory Smith

Posted by Mike McKinney  at 3:46 PM | Permalink

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