The Bristol County District Attorney's office has identified the victim in Friday night's fatal shooting and is asking the public for any information that may aid the investigation.
The victim is Anthony Carvalho, 20, of Fall River, according to a news release issued Saturday.
Police responded to the area of Whipple and Osborne streets around 7:45 p.m. Friday following a report of shots fired. Upon arrival, police found Carvalho in the street at the intersection of Osborne and Ridge streets. He was pronounced dead shortly before 9 p.m. at Saint Anne's Hospital.
Three men were seen by witnesses fleeing the scene, with the Major Crimes Unit responding, police Lt. John DeMello said Friday night. At least a dozen police officers were seen Friday going door to door to question residents and cordoning off a five-block radius near the crime scene of Whipple and Manton streets.
There was a bullet hole in the rear door of a parked white van nearby, and two blocks away, at Whipple and Osborn streets, the sliding glass doors on the first floor of a multi-family residence were shattered as if by gunfire.
An officer said it could have been a stray bullet.
Brian MacDonald, 26, of Garfield Street, said his friends, Jen Sylvia and Scott Arruda, live at the apartment, 424 Osborn St., with three children, ages 8, 9 and 16. He and Sara Sylvia, 16, said they had returned home after the sliding doors had been blown out.
The incident remains under investigation by Fall River police, State Police detectives from the District Attorney's office and homicide unit prosecutors.
If anyone has information about the shooting, or was in the area of the incident between 7 and 8 p.m. Friday, the District Attorney's office is asking people to call the Police Department's Major Crimes division at 508-324-2796.