Projo 7 to 7 News Blog

By Amanda Milkovits
Journal staff writer

PROVIDENCE -- Two people were injured in two shootings across the city on Tuesday.

Barbara Rutledge, 44, was grazed in the chest after shots were fired at her apartment house at 28 Marlborough Ave. at around 2:30 a.m. The gunfire had woken up Rutledge, who told the police that she ran into the kitchen and realized she'd been hit. She was treated at Rhode Island Hospital.

A Narragansett man who was allegedly seen firing at the house was arrested shortly afterward. Devon E. Anderson, 24, of 111 North River Drive, is charged with assault with a dangerous weapon, felony assault when armed with a firearm, and possession of a firearm without a license. Maj. Thomas Oates said the police have not recovered the weapon.

Just before noon, a Providence man drove himself to Rhode Island Hospital with a gunshot wound to his left leg. Leo Weeks, 23, called the police on his way to the hospital, but he was uncooperative about the specifics of the shooting. Weeks said he was on Sackett Street waiting to sell a cell phone when two teenage boys tried to carjack him.

Weeks told the police that he was shot in the struggle and escaped, but later went back to his car and drove himself to the hospital. The police found no crime scene on Sackett Street and no one reported hearing gunfire during that time, Oates said.

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