{"id":302837,"date":"2026-02-17T17:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302837\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:20:09","slug":"three-people-dead-and-others-injured-in-shooting-at-us-ice-rink-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/302837\/","title":{"rendered":"Three people dead and others injured in shooting at US ice rink | US News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three people have died in a shooting at an ice rink in the US, authorities said.<\/p>\n

The shooting happened at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena in Pawtucket, near Providence in Rhode Island<\/a>, at around 2.30pm local time on Monday, where a youth hockey game was due to take place.<\/p>\n

The suspect, named by police as Robert Dorgan, is among the three people who died in what authorities said they believe was a “targeted” attack stemming from a family dispute.<\/p>\n

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\n A woman reacts near the Lynch Arena in Pawtucket after a shooting at the ice rink. Pic: AP<\/p>\n

Dorgan, who was also known as Roberta Esposito, died from a “potentially self-inflicted gun[shot] wound”, Pawtucket Police chief Tina Goncalves said.<\/p>\n

Ms Goncalves said Dorgan was born in 1969, but gave no other details.<\/p>\n

The two victims who were shot dead appear to have been adults, she added. One of them was found inside the arena, while the other died at a hospital.<\/p>\n

Three other people suffered gunshot injuries and are in critical condition in hospital.<\/p>\n

Players and fans raced for cover after popping sounds were heard at the venue, according to unverified footage published on social media.<\/p>\n

Tearful families and high school hockey players still in uniform could be seen hugging outside the arena after the shooting, while police cordoned off the ice rink.<\/p>\n

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\n A father hugs his son outside the Lynch Arena. Pic: AP<\/p>\n

Ms Goncalves confirmed that several people were inside the arena at the time of the shooting, which was caught on a live stream of the hockey game.<\/p>\n

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The teams on the ice were from Coventry-Johnston co-op – a cooperative team with members of more than one school – and St Raphael-Providence Country Day-North Providence-North Smithfield co-op, according to WJAR<\/a>, an affiliate of Sky News’ US partner network NBC.<\/p>\n

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All members of the Coventry hockey team were safe and accounted for, according to Coventry Public Schools of Rhode Island superintendent Don Cowart.<\/p>\n

Officials for Johnston Public Schools, North Smithfield, North Providence, Providence Day and St Raphael Academy also said in statements that their students were safe.<\/p>\n

It comes almost two months after a gunman killed three people<\/a> after opening fire at Brown University in nearby Providence before turning his weapon on himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people have died in a shooting at an ice rink in the US, authorities said. The shooting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-302837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}