The daughter of the suspect in the Rhode Island shooting identified her father as the shooter, revealing that he was ill and struggled with mental health issues. The youth hockey game on Monday ended in tragedy, with three people, including the suspect, fatally shot.<\/p>\n
Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves confirmed that three other victims were hospitalised in critical condition and that the shooter appears to have died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to AP.<\/p>\n
She stated that authorities were continuing their investigation, even though police were not involved in the shooter\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
She said that investigators were working to piece together what occurred and were speaking with witnesses of the shooting inside Dennis M. Lynch Arena in Pawtucket, a few miles from Providence. They were also checking video recorded during the hockey game. Unverified footage spreading on social media shows players diving for cover and fans running from their seats following popping sounds.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Goncalves identified the suspect as Robert Dorgan, who also went by the name Roberta Esposito and was born in 1969, according to the AP. Local station WPRI reported that Dorgan is the father of a senior at North Providence High School who was taking part in the hockey tournament. Multiple sources told the outlet that the student\u2019s mother and sibling were among those killed, with the mother dying inside Lynch Arena and the sibling passing away at a hospital.<\/p>\n
Also Read | Rhode Island shooting at youth hockey game leaves three dead, video emerges<\/a><\/p>\n Outside the arena, grieving relatives and high school hockey players still wearing their uniforms embraced one another before boarding buses to depart. Roads around the venue were closed off, and a strong police presence remained in place, with helicopters circling overhead.<\/p>\n Monday\u2019s shooting <\/a>occurred almost eight weeks after Rhode Island was shaken by another act of gun violence at Brown University, where a shooter killed two students and injured nine more. That attacker also fatally shot a professor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Investigators later discovered 48\u2011year\u2011old Claudio Neves Valente dead from a self\u2011inflicted gunshot wound at a storage facility in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n Pawtucket Mayor Don Grebien mentioned, \u201cThe fortunate thing is that the two incidents are not related, but it is very tragic. These are high school kids. They were doing an event, they were playing with their families watching, a fun time, and it turned into this.\u201d<\/p>\n Also Read | Shooting inside 7-Eleven store in Manhattan leaves 1 dead; suspect on the run<\/a>FBI reacts<\/p>\n The Federal Bureau Of Investigation (FBI<\/a>) <\/a>mentioned that it had responded to the shooting scene and was prepared to support local authorities if required.<\/p>\n