Police: Providence stabbing victim attacked by up to 9 assailants

Club Seven in Providence, scene of a fight that police said led to a fatal stabbing. Photo by Steve Klamkin WPRO News

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) – Police say the man beaten and stabbed to death over the weekend after leaving a Providence nightclub was attacked by a group of six to nine suspects.

Providence police on Monday identified the victim of the Sunday attack as 28-year-old Stephen Cabral, of North Providence.

They say Cabral was attacked just after Club Seven closed at 2 a.m.

The assailants had also been at the club.

Cabral was beaten and stabbed in the parking lot of a pharmacy just down the street.

Police said Monday they had some leads but did not announce any arrests.

It was the city’s seventh homicide of 2019. Family members tell WJAR-TV that Cabral was a father of three.

The club was temporarily shut down for three days pending a hearing.

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