Providence Police investigate 6th homicide of the year
By News Staff
Reporting by: Rebecca Turco
Friends and family continue to light candles and pray for a man who was found murdered in a parking lot in Olneyville.
A Providence Police Officer discovered the body of 25-year-old Luis Arturo Padilla after following a trail of blood Monday morning in a
Police are treating Padilla’s death as a homicide.
“There certainly are circumstances where once the investigation played out, we determined that it wasn’t a homicide. But in this one, we are treating it as a homicide,” said Providence Police Chief Colonel Hugh Clements.
Officials aren’t releasing any details about how or why Padilla was killed.
Family and friends tell ABC6 that Padilla was a father.
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