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Cops: club fight ends in homicide

Victim shot to death after confrontation

Updated: Friday, 06 Nov 2009, 7:09 PM EST
Published : Friday, 06 Nov 2009, 6:02 AM EST

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) - The man who was shot early Friday morning at the corner of Broad and Aldrich Streets died from his injuries overnight, Providence police confirmed.

According to Providence police, the victim, a 26-year-old man, was found around 1:15 a.m. with gunshot wounds to his torso.

Emergency crews rushed the unidentified man to Rhode Island Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 3:43 a.m.

Police said the man had a verbal confrontation with the shooting suspect inside Club Platinum on Broad St. However, investigators have not said if a suspect is in custody.

Officers, they said, are in the process of questioning eyewitnesses.

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