Police Identify Suspect in Pair of Woonsocket Shootings

Woonsocket police identified 19-year-old Zackary Alvarado as the suspect in two shootings in their city that sent four people to the hospital overnight.

All four suffered non life-threatening injuries, police said.

Police said Alvarado is considered armed and dangerous. He stands about 5-feet, 5-inches tall and weighs 140 pounds with brown eyes and curly hair.

Police had crime scene tape surrounding at two sites early Friday morning: one on River Street, another on Bernon Street.

The shootings happened at around 1 a.m. One was by Aly’s Pub.

The owner of the pub told WPRI that he watched a surveillance video that showed a group of people involved in an altercation that appears to have started across the street at a different bar.

“A car stopped in the middle of the road here on River Street. People got out, they were yelling at a car sitting in the parking lot. Next thing you know, some guy got out of that car, waving a gun. People started to run and he just started shooting,” Tom Bouckaert told WPRI.

If you know where Alvarado is, call Woonsocket Police at 401-766-1212.