Shootings in CF may be related to Pawtucket shootings?

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01:00 AM EDT on Wednesday, September 2, 2009

 

 

 

Probe leads to arrest of Central Falls man

CENTRAL FALLS — The Central Falls police Monday charged Neftali Negron, 21, formerly of 50 Garfield St., with possession of a firearm with intent to deliver cocaine, possession of a firearm with intent to deliver marijuana, possession of cocaine with intent to deliver and possession of marijuana with intent to deliver.

After a joint investigation by Central Falls and Providence police, Negron was arrested Monday in Providence. The investigation started March 10 during a probe by Providence police of firearms and narcotics distribution. The investigation led to a joint search by narcotics detectives from both cities of Negron’s second-floor apartment.

At the apartment, the police found a .357 Colt Python along with drugs, the police said.

Negron, did not have a permanent address, the police said..

Although he was able to elude the police for several months, continued efforts by both departments led to his arrest Monday at 10:30 p.m., the police said.

— Tatiana Pina

Central Falls adds patrols after shooting

CENTRAL FALLS — The Police Department has added patrols after a woman and girl were wounded by gunshots as they sat on the front steps of an apartment building on Garfield Street.

The woman and girl were on the stoop of 106 Garfield St. with several other people Sunday night when they were shot.

Capt. James J. Mendonca said that additional marked and unmarked police cars are patrolling the streets.

“We are doing everything in our power to ensure the safety of the people of Central Falls. We want them to know we are actively looking,” Mendoca said.

An unnamed 10-year-old girl and Diane Eadiekromah, 48, were shot while they were chatting with friends. The girl, who was shot in the leg, was released from Rhode Island Hospital Tuesday, Mendonca said. Eadiekromah was treated and released from Rhode Island Hospital Sunday.

Mendonca said that the police have suspects but have made no arrests. He said Central Falls officers are working with the Pawtucket police while they investigate the shooting and the possibility of a Pawtucket connection.

Pawtucket police say they are investigating two shootings that occurred Sunday in their city as a possible feud between two groups and potentially related to the Garfield Avenue shooting, according to Pawtucket Detective Donti Rosciti. They have reopened several unsolved cases, he said. 

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Update: Pawtucket Police await cause of death from ME

10:53 AM Thu, Sep 03, 2009 | Permalink
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The body of a Providence man, found shot, is transported from the driver's seat of a car to a van Wednesday on Newell Avenue in Pawtucket.

PAWTUCKET, R.I. -- Working on what they are calling a homicide, the Pawtucket Police are awaiting a determination from the state medical examiner Thursday on the cause of death of a man found Wednesday in the driver's seat of a Volvo on Newell Avenue near Hayward Streets, apparently dead from a gunshot wound.

The police have identified the man as Michael Benson, 33, of 155 Devonshire St., Providence. He was self employed and the owner of Premium Paving and Construction in Central Falls, according to the police.

The police were called to the scene at about 2 p.m. The case is being investigated by the Pawtucket Police Major Crimes Unit and the Rhode Island Medical Examiner's Office.
The four-door Volvo was sitting between two chain link fences, one that divides the one-way southbound Newell Avenue from Route 95 northbound just north of Exit 26, and one around a yard at 70 Newell that has Merry Christmas spelled out in weathered tube lights.

Shawanna Dudley, 33, said she walked past the car about 1 p.m. and thought the man was sleeping. The engine was running, she said. Later she worried he may have had a heart attack and sent her son to see if the car was still there. Upon her son's report that the man looked dead, she sent her son to get her fiancé and went to see what she could do.

She and a younger son looked through the car's open window and saw blood and a wound.

She needed someone to call the police, she said. She tried to get the attention of painters working on the U-Haul building, which occupies the next block of Newell, between Hayward Street and Exit 26, but they didn't understand her. "Please, call the police. Someone's dead!" she said. "No one believed me."

Finally her fiancé arrived with a cell phone, she said, and he placed the call to 911.

After the body was removed, the Volvo towed and that part of the street washed by firefighters, she was irate that she was the only one who cared enough to call the police. "I don't know how anyone could walk by a dead body" and not do anything except "mind my own business and go home."

Anyone with information about the case is asked to call Detective Donti Rosciti at (401) 727-9100, extension 737.

Correction: An earlier version of this report incorrectly identified Benson as a resident of Alaska Street in Providence.

-- with reports from Donita Naylor, Journal staff writer

The Providence Journal has been following this story today as it develops. Our initial report was published at 6:53 a.m.

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