By Lynn Arditi
North Smithfield, R.I. __ Police chased a 29-year-old man carrying a large caliber rifle into woods near Walmart at 7 Dowling Village Saturday afternoon after being told he had threatened suicide.
With the help of Woonsocket police and state police, the officers surrounded the area and were waiting for state police K-9 units to arrive when the man, John McKissick, of Uxbridge, Mass, emerged from the woods.
Police arrested McKissick and charged him with illegal possession of a firearm, carrying a weapon while under the unfluence of liquor or drugs, firing without a landowner's permission and disorderly contact.