Victim identified in Providence fatal stabbing

By Stephanie Vargas

news@abc6.com

Providence Police are investigating a stabbing that left one man dead Saturday morning.

Police say 27 year old Colby Mendonca, a former Soldier, died after being stabbed.

He was discovered around 2 a.m. behind a pharmacy on Elmwood Avenue and rushed to Rhode Island Hospital.

Around the same time, police responded to another stabbing on Broad Street but the victim suffered non-life threatening injuries.

No one has been arrested and this is the city’s ninth homicide this year.

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