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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Edwin Dilone of Providence has been identified by the police as the 17-year-old boy who was shot and critically wounded as he sat in a parked car in Elmwood Thursday morning.

Police Friday linked the incident to the fatal shooting of another 17-year-old over the weekend.

Just before 8:30 a.m. Thursday, Dilone was in the driver's seat of a white Toyota, in a parking area at 211 Adelaide Ave., when he was shot several times. A man was seen running from the site.

Dilone was shot the morning of the wake for another 17-year-old, Angelo Camarena , who police said was killed after a birthday party for a 16-year-old girl on Friendship Street early Saturday morning. He was shot by a masked man, whom the police are still seeking.

Camarena was a member of a neighborhood gang, police Maj. Thomas Oates said Friday. Oates said that Dilone is believed to be an associate of a rival neighborhood gang. Oates refused to identify the gangs, saying the police don't want to fuel the already heated rivalry.

Teny O. Gross, the executive director of the Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence, said the shooting appeared to be part of a feud between young Latinos that began last year.

Police have added patrols since the shootings and are working closely with street workers to mediate the feud.

Dilone, who lives in the Elmwood neighborhood, is a student at a high school in Providence. According to Providence Teachers Union president Steve Smith, the boy attends the nearby Alvarez High School, at 375 Adelaide.

Dilone had stopped in the parking lot to pick up a cousin on their way to the high school, as he did routinely, Oates said Friday.

Dilone underwent surgery at Rhode Island Hospital Thursday; police said Friday his condition remains critical.

The shooting led the school district to send out a crisis team of guidance counselors to help Dilone's friends and fellow students cope with the shooting, spokeswoman Christina O'Reilly said Friday morning. The school district also sent out a memo to all of the principals about the shooting and a reminder to be vigilant about security at school, she said.

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