By Gregory Smith
Providence Journal video / Kris Craig
PROVIDENCE, RI -- A 12-year-old girl was pronounced dead at the hospital after she and three other females suffered gunshot wounds in a late-night incident Saturday at a social gathering in the Hartford Park public housing project, the police said.Police Lt. Dean R. Isabella said the girl, whose identity was withheld, was shot once in the incident, which occurred shortly before midnight, and was pronounced dead at Hasbro Children's Hospital.
The other females, also unnamed, were taken to Rhode Island Hospital. One was released after treatment, according to Isabella, and the status of the other two could not be immediately determined.
"A subject walks up in front of them and starts to shoot into the gathering," Isabella related Sunday. "And then he walks off on foot."
Additional details were not immediately available