A woman was shot dead inside a car next to an elementary school Wednesday night, making it the second homicide for Providence in two days.

Around 8:30 p.m., the police were called to 191 Webster Avenue in the Silver Lake neighborhood on reports of a shooting.

An hour later, a silver Saturn, which held the victim's body in its last moments, had not been moved from where it sat atop a crushed iron fence that guards the Webster Avenue Elementary School.

A crossing guard for the school, who was on scene after the homicide happened, said a fifth grade dance was planned for Thursday evening.

At the scene, the police did not release an identity of the woman, nor other details involving the crime.

"We have avenues we are pursuing," Providence Police Chief Hugh Clements said of the investigation.

The woman was transported to Rhode Island Hospital and pronounced dead.

Neighbors gathered on the streets nearby to talk with each other and watch the police conduct an investigation of the scene.

"I saw them drag the body out of the car," said Nigel Evangelist, 29, who lives two doors down from the crime scene. "I could tell she wasn't alive because her arms flopped down when they put her on the gurney."

Luci Parent, 39, who lives in the neighborhood, said she saw medics trying to resuscitate the woman.

"There was no blood, you couldn't see where she was shot," Parent said.

Clements acknowledged that this murder comes on the heels of 24-year-old Ashley Masi's homicide the night prior.



"We go a long stretch with out a homicide, and then we have two in two days," he said. "That's alarming." therbaugh@providencejournal.com (401) 277-7067 On Twitter: @T_Marie