3 Providence officers wounded in drug raid in West End | Rhode Island news | projo.com | The Providence Journal: "PROVIDENCE — Three police officers were shot early Monday evening and a suspect injured during a drug raid at 12 Hollis St. in the city’s West End, the police said.
Police Chief Dean M. Esserman said the officers were wearing coats and jackets labeled Providence Police and were making a forced entry at an address for which they had a search warrant. Two were shot just as they crossed the threshold, Esserman said from Rhode Island Hospital, where the police were gathering in droves in a show of respect for their injured colleagues.
Narcotics were seized, Esserman said, and a suspect was taken to the hospital with injuries, although they were not gunshot wounds.
Two of the injured policemen were narcotics detectives Carlos A. Sical and Juan R. Robles. One was shot in the leg, and the other’s arm was grazed, but it was not disclosed who had which injury. A third officer also suffered a minor wound.
Esserman declined to release the names of the other officer or the suspect.
Sical was treated and released, but Robles was still being treated as of 10:30 p.m., a Rhode Island Hospital spokeswoman said.
An officer radioed for help at 7:03 p.m., saying an officer was down and asking for an ambulance, then another. Neighbors said two ambulances responded."
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