Detective Donti Rosciti said Victor Omar Frometa, 30, had been sleeping on the couch early Wednesday, but relocated to his bedroom before a bullet came through a window of the second-floor apartment and struck the couch and pillow, the Providence (R.I.) Journal reported Thursday.
The bullet appeared to have been fired from a block away.
Rosciti said it appeared the shooting originated at a location parallel to, but elevated above, the apartment. Frometa and his family likely were not intended targets, the officer said.
The shooting occurred while Frometa was home with his wife, 2-year-old child and mother.
Rosciti told the Journal the shooting apparently occurred sometime between when Frometa moved to the bedroom at 1:30 a.m. local time and 7:30 a.m. when he woke up to find the bullet inside the pillow.
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