Overview
- Police responded around 4:30 p.m. Saturday to Leonard’s Package Store at 1331 Pleasant St. after a 911 report of men fighting.
- Officers found 31-year-old Taiquan Teixeira of Fall River unresponsive with a gunshot wound outside the store.
- Teixeira was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead later that evening.
- The Bristol County District Attorney’s Office is investigating the death as a homicide.
- Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to the DA’s office are working with Fall River police, and authorities say no further information is available.