Jean Carlos Mercedes

Death by Force

On a Friday afternoon in Providence, Rhode Island, a life was cut short in a burst of violence that marked another grim statistic in the city's rising homicide count. Jean Carlos Mercedes, a 27-year-old Hispanic male, was sitting in his car on Lenox Avenue on December 11, 2020, when he was fatally shot. The attack occurred at approximately 2:30 p.m., a time when the neighborhood should have been filled with the sounds of an approaching weekend, but instead was shattered by gunfire.

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