WPRO Newsroom
A nighttime stabbing in Providence’s Kennedy Plaza Tuesday night ended in the death of one man.
Providence Police Commander Thomas Oates said they arrived on scene at 9:20 p.m. for reports of a stab victim. When they arrived, a man, 18-year-old Charlie Otero, had a serious stab wound to the chest and was inside McCormick and Schmick’s Restaurant in the ground floor of the Biltmore Hotel. Otero told police he had been involved in an altercation in Kennedy Plaza, and sought refuge in the downtown seafood restaurant.
The man gave police a description of the other person involved in the stabbing, 18-year-old Diamond Wilson, who was later located when police responded to a second call on the corner of Westminster and Dorrance Streets about a stab victim. Wilson had less serious wounds.
Oates said the two men involved in the knife fight knew each other prior to the event, and had some sort of disagreement. When they met in Kennedy Plaza, they began to fight. Otero later died at Rhode Island Hospital due to his injuries.
Oates also added that the stabbing “has nothing to do with the restaurant or the Biltmore or that area downtown.”
