In the first call, at 9:28 a.m., Pacheco said he had shot two people. He declined to comment on a possible motive or whether there had been any threats of violence.Īuthorities said Pacheco called 911 three times this morning. Sullivan said police were '99 percent confident' that the killer was among the dead. Hames said the police also found a handgun. Shortly after, the Warwick police found Matthew Fandetti, 29, shot dead in his house in Warwick, and a fourth person burned beyond recognition in a car parked in a lot near a baseball field in Warwick.ĭetectives are waiting for the results of an autopsy to determine the identity of the burned person, but the destroyed car belonged to Pacheco, said Detective Maj. Pacheco then shot and wounded a driver, Charles Johnson, 30, of Providence, as Johnson sat in his pickup in the parking lot, police said. and shot a supervisor, Robert Benetti, 38, of Pawtucket.

Police said Carlos Pacheco, 38, a 20-year employee at the Journal, entered the building about 9:30 a.m.

fatally shot two co-workers, wounded a third and may have then died in a car fire in a wave of violence this morning that swept from the newspaper's production plant in the city to a suburban neighborhood in Warwick, police said. An employee of the Providence Journal Co.

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