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Man's Head Grazes Bullet on Pleasant St.
A man's head grazed a bullet causing chaos in Mt. Hope Sunday night down around 61 Pleasant St. and at 747 N. Main St. The bullet, a straight A student, who was only out trying to support his family, ran directly to Councilman Jackson claiming harassment and profiling when his casing was found at the scene. They planted it, he told the Councilman.
You think I'm joking? Read all about it in the ProJo article Bullet grazes man's head at this link or continue reading below the fold.
Of course I adapted the spin you'll probably hear when the incident is discussed at the next MHNA meeting. At the last meeting I remember asking, "Why do we live in a neighborhood where we have to worry about getting shot?" and Mr. Watson, without missing a beat, responded, "Because that's the kind of neighborhood it is."
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Bullet grazes man’s head, SUV strikes parked car
01:00 AM EDT on Tuesday, July 24, 2007
By Gregory Smith
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE — Detectives are still trying to sort out what happened at about 1 a.m. Sunday in Mount Hope when a parked car was struck by
another vehicle and an East Providence man was grazed in the head by a bullet.
Although there are discrepancies in the statements of those involved, the police said they have concluded that Justin T. Potter, 26, of 226 Juniper St., East Providence, was shot in the head as he drove or rode in a rented GMC Yukon sport utility vehicle, that the SUV struck a parked car in the vicinity of 61 Pleasant St., Mount Hope, and that the SUV later smashed into an office building at 747 North Main St.
Potter told the police that he was shot at on Gano Street in Fox Point, but detectives theorize that the shooting occurred in the vicinity of 61 Pleasant. No shell casings were recovered from that area, however.
“We’re still looking to speak further with the victim on this,” Detective Capt. Hugh T. Clements Jr. said yesterday. Officers were dispatched to 61 Pleasant, near McCann Place, for a report of gunshots, and witnesses said they had heard six to eight shots. But the shooter had not been seen. Officers found glass in the street and noticed that a parked car owned by Carol Robinson, 31, of 127 Suffolk St., Wanskuck, had been damaged by another vehicle.
They then learned that a maroon SUV matching Robinson’s description of the second vehicle had pushed in a wall at the offices of Rhode Island Court Reporting on North Main Street, about 3½ blocks from 61 Pleasant. The police had the unattended SUV — a slug was lodged in its tailgate — towed away as evidence.
A call then came from Rhode Island Hospital, where Potter was being treated for a minor gunshot wound.
gsmith@projo.com
Posted at July 26, 2007 10:11 PM