Superior Court of Rhode Island August 14, 2001, P1/96-0736AG (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.