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PROVIDENCE, RI -- A Providence County Grand Jury handed up an indictment today naming Juan Díaz on one count of murder and one count of using and discharging a firearm while committing a crime of violence.

Juan L. Díaz, 25, of 14 Reservoir Ave. Pawtucket is to be arraigned Monday in Providence County Superior Court on the felony charges. He's been held in the Adult Correctional Insitutions since his arrest last summer.

Police say Díaz shot Mayra Cruz, 26, whom police described as his girlfriend, in his apartment on June 25.

According to the police dispatch log, Díaz called police the day after the shooting saying he accidentally shot his girlfriend in the face.

"He stated that she had the gun and when he was retrieving it ... it accidentally fired, shooting her in the face," according to the log entry.

"He stated that he tended to her injuries throughout the night and at one point she was throwing up blood and she has now stopped breathing," the dispatcher wrote.

Police and emergency medical personnel rushed to the scene. By then, Cruz was already dead and Díaz had fled to Albany, N.Y., where he was arrested the next day.

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