Sunday, June 09, 2002

Tragedy in Providence: Journal worker kills 2, injures 1



-- An employee of The Providence Journal Co. fatally shot two coworkers, wounded a third, and may have then died in a car fire after a wave of violence yesterday morning that swept from the newspaper's production plant in the city to a suburban neighborhood in Warwick.

The police said that Carlos Pacheco, 38, a 20-year employee at The Journal, entered the building at 210 Kinsley Ave. at about 9:30 a.m., and shot a supervisor, Robert Benetti, 38, of Pawtucket. Benetti died.
Pacheco then shot and wounded a driver, Charles Johnson, 30, of Providence, as Johnson sat in his pickup in the parking lot.

Shortly after, the Warwick police found Matthew Fandetti, 29, shot dead in his house in Warwick, and a fourth person burned beyond recognition in a car parked in a lot near a baseball field and the Kenney Manufacturing Co., at 1000 Jefferson Blvd., in Warwick.

Detectives say they are waiting for the results of an autopsy to determine the identity of the burned person, but the destroyed car belonged to Pacheco, said Providence Detective Maj. Martin F. Hames. The handgun was also in the car.

Providence Police Chief Richard T. Sullivan said yesterday that the police were "99 percent confident" that the killer was among the dead. He refused to comment on a possible motive or whether there had been any threats of violence.

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