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PROVIDENCE -- The Police Department Friday asked the city Board of Licenses to suspend or revoke the liquor license of the Sportsman's Inn at 122 Fountain St.

The formal request came at the conclusion of a hearing conducted by the board to consider the shooting at the downtown strip club in which three people were wounded March 24 by a patron with a handgun.

What happened that night demonstrates that the licensee is unable to control the premises, Assistant City Solicitor Max Foster told the board. William A. Gosz, lawyer for the inn/strip club, said no evidence was presented to justify what he called the "extreme sanction" of revocation.

Board chairman Andrew J. Annaldo said the board will make a decision after its members gain access to a transcript of the hearing.

 Tags  Providence RI

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