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April 24, 2008

Police ID suspect in attack on security guard at mall

PROVIDENCE -- Police have an arrest warrant out for a suspect accused of attacking a security guard with a box cutter Sunday afternoon outside a Providence Place department store.

Police are seeking Anthony Osorio, 19, of Providence, who has been charged in the warrant with two counts of felony assault. The first is for slashing the neck of Spencer Jones, a security guard for JCPenney, with the box cutter and the second for threatening another guard with the weapon.

The assault occurred after the two guards spotted what looked like four men shoplifting in a coordinated way at the JCPenney store, police said.

One guard followed one of the men out of the store into the promenade area of the mall. Jones then left to help him, when police say he was attacked about 15 feet from the store's entrance.

The police say they suspect three others in the incident, but do not have arrest warrants for them at this time.

Jones was brought to the hospital for stitches that day and released, police said.

-- Journal staff writer Gregory Smith

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