PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Two groups of young men exchanged gunfire Thursday evening in a shooting that injured as many as nine people in Rhode Island’s capital, authorities said.
Three people appeared to be very seriously injured in the crossfire, which might have involved four or five guns, said Providence Police Chief, Col. Hugh T. Clements Jr.
"These are groups that we are familiar with," said Clements. "This is not random. It was targeted at that address."
The shooting took place just before 7 p.m. in the southeastern neighborhood of Washington Park, which Clements described as a typically quiet neighborhood.
The preliminary investigation showed that people had been shot at from an "assailant vehicle," and gunfire was returned from the home, Clements said.
An estimated several dozen shots were fired. No other shooting in the city's history has injured as many people, he said.
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