Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Honors Devine’s Actions Stopping 2017 Stabbing
![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] From left, Bill and Melissa Devine, their son, Connor Devine, Mayor Joseph J. Solomon, Conor's grandfather, Normand Thibuault, and his aunt and God mother, Jennifer Devine. Solomon presented Connor with the the Carnegie Award honoring his heroic actions preventing the stabbing of Alyssa Garcia in March 2017.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Devine-Carnegie-Award-1-140x140.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — It’s been more than a year since Connor Devine, 19, of Warwick, a Rite Aid shift manager, used a shopping cart to strike a Westport, MA, man […]
WARWICK, RI — It’s been more than a year since Connor Devine, 19, of Warwick, a Rite Aid shift manager, used a shopping cart to strike a Westport, MA, man […]
Warwick Police promoted eight officers Tuesday night at City Hall and presented the lifesaving award to six, including two good samaritans who helped save the life of a Warwick Rite Aid employee stabbed in a random attack, the police who responded to the call, and an officer who saved a motorist from a drug overdose.
Jacob Gallant, 41, of Westport, MA, charged with the March 5 stabbing of Alyssa Garcia, 18, of Warwick while she was working at the 1201 Warwick Ave. Rite-Aid, was arraigned in Kent County Superior Court Friday, his bail doubled to $200,000.
WARWICK, RI — Warwick Police have identified the 18-year-old woman stabbed by Jacob Gallant, 41, of Westport, MA while working at the 1201 Warwick Ave. Rite-Aid March 5, as well as the two men the department is crediting with saving her life, all three Warwick residents.
WARWICK, RI — Warwick Police arrested a 41-year-old Westport man in the apparently random stabbing of an 18-year-old woman, an employee at the 1201 Warwick Ave. Rite Aid multiple times Sunday afternoon.