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New York City is expanding a migrant shelter curfew to 20 locations following recent violent incidents involving police and migrants in Times Square. The 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew will impact about 3,600 migrants and is in response to neighborhood complaints. The announcement comes after a 15-year-old armed migrant from Venezuela was arrested for shooting a tourist and firing at police in Times Square. He will be charged as an adult.
New York City is expanding a curfew to 20 migrant shelters after a series of violent incidents involving shelter residents. The curfew, from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m., will affect about 3,600 migrants. This decision comes after a 15-year-old from Venezuela opened fire in Times Square and a video of migrants brawling with police went viral. The city operates over 200 such facilities to house some 66,000 newly arrived asylum seekers.
A 28-year-old man was shot and killed on Dupont Drive in Providence during a night of violent incidents. Witnesses reported seeing several Hispanic males running from the scene, and it remains unclear what led up to the shooting. In separate incidents, a 15-year-old girl was wounded in a shooting on Glenham Street, a man was found with a gunshot wound to the leg on Elmwood Ave, and a shot was fired into a home on Hillhurst Avenue. Police are investigating all of these incidents, and it is unknown if they are connected.