Car Crashes Into Building, Man Shot: Providence Police

PROVIDENCE, RI — Officers investigating a report of shots fired and a car crashing into a building found a man with a bullet wound, police said.

The officers were sent to Bodell Avenue shortly before 3:30 a.m. Sunday and found a "vehicle that had struck the side of a residential housing building," Kristy dosReis, the chief public information officer for the Providence Department of Public Safety, said in an email.

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"The vehicle showed multiple bullet strikes," dosReis said.

"A short time later, officers were dispatched to Cleveland Street, where an adult male was located suffering from a gunshot wound," according to dosReis. "The victim was transported to Rhode Island Hospital in stable condition."

Detectives are investigating the incident, dosReis said.

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