State v. Jackson, 96-0736 (2001)

DECISION

Just after midnight on October 12, 1995, defendant Demetrius Jackson, a loaded revolver in his waistband, along with a sawed-off shotgun and a cache of ammunition secreted in a backpack, cut through Roger Williams Park bent on violence. He was shortly confronted by William Abrahamson, an unarmed Park Ranger, and Brian Quirk, a Providence Police Officer, who had holstered his weapon. As Quirk approached, Jackson pulled out his handgun, and in the ensuing moments he shot and killed Abrahamson and wounded Quirk twice, firing the second volley into Quirk while he already lay wounded on…