STEPH MACHADO, 12 NEWS.
(SHANNON)
PROVIDENCE POLICE ARE
IDENTIFYING THE VICTIMS IN A
WEEKEND SHOOTING.
ONE MAN WAS KILLED -- THE OTHER
-- SERIOUSLY INJURED.
(MIKE)
POLICE SAY THE MAN WHO DIED WAS
35-YEAR-OLD ----BINIAM TSEGAI
THEY SAY HE AND ANOTHER MAN WERE
SHOT ----- JUST AFTER LEAVING AN
ILLEGAL CLUB.
12 NEWS REPORTER BRITTANY
SCHAEFER JOINS US LIVE NOW FROM
THE PROVIDENCE PUBLIC SAFETY
COMPLEX WITH MORE ON THE
INVESTIGATION. BRITTANY?
(BRITTANY)
MIKE, SHANNON PROVIDENCE POLICE
SAY THE VICTIMS WERE AT THE
INTERSECTIONS OF ELMWOOD AND
POTTER AVENUES AROUND 3 A-M
SUNDAY.
THAT'S WHEN THEY RAN INTO
ANOTHER GROUP.
MAJOR DAVID LAPATIN TELLS US A
FIGHT BROKE OUT IMMEDIATELY.
FOLLOWING THE CITY'S DEADLIEST
YEAR IN A DECADE AND FIRST
HOMICIDE OF 2022-
MAJOR DAVID LAPATIN SAYS
OFFICERS ARE MAKING PROGRESS AND
RESIDENTS WILL SEE A DIFFERENCE.
Major David Lapatin, Providence
Police: I would suspect you will
see it calm down this year.
LAPATIN TELLS ME HE GETS
DEPARTMENT ALERTS WHEN A GUN IS
TAKEN OFF THE STREETS.
Major: My phone is going off all
WHILE INVESTIGATORS ARE WORKING
LONG HOURS- ANOTHER SHOOTING
PROVED DEADLY EARLY SUNDAY
MORNING.
MAJOR DAVID LAPATIN TELLS ME
THREE MEN WERE LEAVING A
SO-CALLED SIP JOINT EARLY SUNDAY
WHEN THEY WERE APPROACHED BY
FOUR MEN.
THAT'S WHEN HE SAYS THEY STARTED
FIGHTING AND A MEMBER OF THE
FOUR-PERSON GROUP PULLED OUT A
GUN AND STARTED SHOOTING.
LAPATIN SAYS 35-YEAR-OLD BINIAM
TESGAI OF PORTLAND MAINE DIED AT
THE SCENE
THE OTHER VICTIM FROM CAMBRIDGE
WAS ALSO SHOT SEVERAL TIMES AND
IS IDENTIFIED AS 28-YEAR-OLD
MERHAWI BERHE.
David: We have put in a lot of
hours already but we have a way
to go on this.
LAPATIN SAYS POLICE HAVE NOT
BEEN ABLE TO GET INSIDE THE
ILLEGAL AFTER-HOURS CLUB.
HE TELLS ME INVESTIGATORS
BELIEVE THE PARTY IS HAPPENING
IN THE BASEMENT OF AN ELMWOOD
AVE BUSINESS.
David: After these night clubs
close, two or three o'clock,
these places open. They are not
licensed, not inspected, they
are just thrown together.
Sometimes they are in houses,
sometimes they are in businesses
and it's where people gather and
they have a bar just like most
of them like a regular club and
they serve drinks to the early
morning hours. We shut them down
all the time but they just pop
up.
(BRITTANY)
RIGHT NOW POLICE SAY IT'S
UNCLEAR WHY THE TWO GROUPS
STARTED FIGHTING OR IF THEY KNEW
EACH OTHER.
LAPATIN SAYS THEY ARE ALSO
LOOKING INTO WHETHER THIS WAS A
TARGETED SHOOTING BUT DO SO
THERE IS NO THREAT TO THE
PUBLIC.
NO ARRESTS HAVE BEEN MADE AT
THIS TIME.
NEWS.
(SHANNON)
TONIGHT, WE KNOW THE NAMES OF
THE TWO MEN SHOT OVER THE
WEEKEND IN PROVIDENCE --- ONE OF
WHOM LATER DIED.
POLICE ALSO TELL US WHAT THEY
BELIEVE LED UP TO THE SHOOTING
ON ELMWOOD AVENUE.
12 NEWS REPORTER BRITTANY
SCHAEFER JOINS US LIVE WITH WHAT
SHE'S LEARNED.
(BRITTANY)
PROVIDENCE POLICE SAY THEY HAVE
BEEN WORKING LONG HOURS
SEARCHING THE ELMWOOD AVENUE
AREA FOR ANSWERS.
MAJOR DAVID LAPATIN SAYS THE TWO
VICTIMS WERE LEAVING AN
AFTER-HOURS ILLEGAL CLUB AROUND
3 A-M SUNDAY WHEN THE FIGHT
BROKE OUT.
(BRITTANY)
NATS
PROVIDENCE'S FIRST HOMICIDE OF
THE YEAR COMING AROUND TWO WEEKS
INTO 2022-
FOLLOWING THE CITY'S DEADLIEST
YEAR IN OVER A DECADE.
SOT Major David Lapatin,
Providence Police: There's a lot
of guns on the street and we're
taking many of them off.
NOW THEY ARE HOPING TO MAKE A