SHOOTING, FIRE, CRASH LEAD TO MAN'S ARREST.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: TRACEY TULLY Staff writer

GLOVERSVILLE State Police arrested a city man Wednesday who is accused of shooting and critically wounding a 55-year-old acquaintance during a rampage at his mother-in-law's home, and then lighting his own house on fire.

William Smith, 28, is suspected of breaking into 81 West Pine St. in Gloversville at about 1:30 a.m. Wednesday to confront his wife, who had fled Tuesday to her mother's house with the couple's two children, Gloversville police Lt. John Harzinski said.

Smith allegedly forced entry into the two-story home carrying a .22-caliber rifle, Harzinski said. He then chased his wife upstairs, where one shot …