By RUSS OLIVO

WOONSOCKET — The Central Falls police on Tuesday captured a Woonsocket man on the lam since he allegedly shot and seriously wounded two others in a dramatic street fight nearly two weeks ago.

Lawrence E. Wright, 21, was found hiding in a closet at 91 Garfield St. about 3:30 p.m., said Detective Lt. Steven Bradley of the Central Falls Police Department. Woonsocket police thought Wright was hiding elsewhere in Central Falls, but officers spoke to other individuals who pointed them to the Garfield Street apartment, where a female relative of Wright was living, he said.
“We had information that he was hiding at a location in Central Falls but they developed information that he was at a different location,” said Detective Lt. Timothy S. Paul of the Woonsocket police. “They did a great job.”
Wright, of Burnside Avenue, is now held without bail at the Adult Correctional Institutions on two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, robbery and conspiracy following his arraignment in Sixth District Court Wednesday. A bail hearing is scheduled for Sept. 24.
Bradley said Wright struggled with his arresting officers, prompting the department to charge him with an additional count of resisting arrest.
 The detective said two females were also brought in for questioning on charges of harboring a fugitive, but they were later released. Central Falls police continue following up leads in search of the weapon involved in the shooting, he said.
Calling Wright armed and dangerous, police had issued his photo and a plea for information leading to his arrest.
“We made an all-out effort to find this guy,” said Paul. “We knew he was capable of shooting someone. We didn’t want anyone else to get hurt.”
The police had been seeking Wright since he allegedly shot and wounded two men in a wild confrontation, part street war, part motor vehicle chase, starting outside Quik Mart on Diamond Hill Road shortly before midnight on Sept. 1.
Police suspect Wright used a handgun in the attack, but they are unsure of the caliber - not simply because police haven’t recovered the weapon, but because the bullets remain lodged in the bodies of the victims, according to Paul. Both men, ages 28 and 33, had initially been listed in serious condition at Rhode Island Hospital, but neither remains a patient there, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Paul said the episode began when Wright and another man confronted the victims outside the Quik Mart after the two pairs of men had previously traded insults and threats via telephone. While the victims arrived armed with baseball bats, unbeknown to them, Wright was wearing a bulletproof vest and packing a gun.
After the men exchanged words, a fight erupted during which Wright allegedly fired a single round into the body of one of the victims. Wright and his companion fled on foot to a car, parked on nearby Fulton Street, in which several other men were waiting for them.
The wounded man and his uninjured companion, meanwhile, returned to a parked truck in which they had driven to the Quik Mart and began pursuing the vehicle, repeatedly ramming it in the rear end.
After a brief, high-speed chase, the two vehicles came to a stop about a quarter mile away, at Estes and Social streets, near the Blackstone line. There, the uninjured occupant of the truck approached the car on foot, at which point he was shot as well.
Armand Nelson Dauphinais Jr. 22, of Providence Street, one of the occupants in the small silver car who had been traveling with Wright, was captured at the scene and later charged with obstructing police. But Wright managed to elude the police, running through backyards along Estes Street, where a family later found a cell phone he apparently dropped.
Wright is charged with two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon for the shootings. Because the investigation remains open and more arrests are expected, the police are withholding further explanation of the robbery and conspiracy charges at this time, Paul said.