CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) – A police officer shot a man while investigating a stabbing just before midnight Saturday, authorities said.
The wounded man was taken to Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, said Col. Stephen McGrath in a written statement. Police officials did not immediately identify the wounded man or the officer who shot him.
The injured man was alive Sunday night, said Robin Schutt, a spokeswoman for Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey.
Two other men, whom authorities also refused to identify, were treated at the same hospital for stab wounds.
Investigators from the state police and the attorney general’s office are assisting in the probe, a procedure followed in Rhode Island whenever a police officer shoots someone.
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