NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WLNE) — North Kingstown police responded Thursday morning to a Wickford Point Road residence for a report of a man with a handgun threatening to shoot his wife and himself.

According to North Kingstown Police Department Chief John Urban, the wife told a dispatcher that she might be able to exit the residence.

The dispatcher encouraged her to exit the building, and she was located at the front door of the residence by arriving officers.

She was then moved to safety away from the building.

Officers established a perimeter and were unsuccessful in establishing contact with the husband inside the home.

A drone was deployed by police into the residence and the husband was located deceased in the bedroom from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

The incident is

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