PROVIDENCE, R.I. � The police are searching for suspects who fired into a crowd and wounded five people at a birthday party in the Chad Brown housing project late Tuesday night.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. � The police are searching for suspects who fired into a crowd and wounded five people at a birthday party in the Chad Brown housing project late Tuesday night.

Two men and three women were rushed to Rhode Island Hospital with gunshot wounds just after 11 p.m.

Providence Police Maj. David Lapatin said 27-year-old Gabriel Burgos of Providence, who was shot in the back, was the most seriously wounded. Burgos underwent surgery, and was expected to survive, Lapatin said.

Burgos was listed in fair condition at Rhode Island Hospital�Wednesday morning.

The other victims suffered non-life threatening injuries. They were identified as Angela Turner, 21, who lives in Chad Brown, Aleena Johnson, 41, of Providence, Efrain Jusino, 39, of Dorchester, Mass., and Daizha Pittman, 23, of Providence.

Turner was listed in fair condition Wednesday morning. Jusino had been discharged from the hospital.� The conditions of Johnson and Pittman were unavailable.

While police determined there was more than one gun used in the shooting, which also blasted five vehicles, investigators were still trying to determine Wednesday morning who shot into the crowd outside 35 March St. and why.

Lapatin said it wasn�t yet known whether the shooters were aiming randomly into the crowd, or were targeting certain people � or just targeting the housing projects.

While some in Chad Brown are involved in gangs that feud with other neighborhoods, it wasn�t clear whether this was gang-related, Lapatin said.

The last multiple shootings, in 2013 and 2012, were gang-related, said Capt. Michael E. Correia. �In Hartford Park, a gang seeking revenge shot into a graduation party � wounding three women and killing 12-year-old Aynis Vargas in June 2013.

And in 2012, a rival gang shot at five young men on Academy Avenue; all survived.

There have been 58 people shot in Providence this year, just under 61 victims this time last year, Correia said.

The police are increasing patrols in Chad Brown, as well as in neighborhoods where there could be retaliation, Lapatin said.

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