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<\/p>\n(WJAR) \u2014 One of the “good Samaritans” credited with intervening with the shooter at the Lynch Arena during the deadly shooting spoke about confrontation with NBC 10 on Tuesday. <\/p>\n
Michael Black, who was at the senior night hockey game on Monday, said there was around 10 minutes left in the first period when he heard a popping noise.<\/p>\n
“As I was watching the game, I heard a pop, pop. And I thought they were balloons, I thought they were big balloons. And the noise was right in front of me. I looked, and I saw, and heard another pop, and recognized there wasn\u2019t any balloons there, and thought that there was something wrong,” he said.<\/p>\n
Black said he was looking around, and saw a pistol being directed at the people in the second row.<\/p>\n
“At that point of time, as soon as I saw the pistol, my wife was sitting next to me with some friends, and we didn\u2019t even look at each other, and I just said run, run,” Black said. “I kind of waited and as soon as I saw a clear path, I got on the third level step and he was on the one and a half, and I just jumped across and went for the gun. I wanted to grab the gun. And what had happened was, my hand got caught in the sliding chamber and he shot, and my hand got caught and I was holding him down with my body.”<\/p>\n
Black said because his hand was caught on the gun chamber, the shooter could not fire any more shots with that gun.<\/p>\n
He said at one point, the shooter shoved him and rolled onto the bleachers.<\/p>\n
Black described several more heroes that choked the suspected shooter, now identified as Robert Dorgan.<\/p>\n
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Police responded to a deadly shooting at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena in Pawtucket, on Feb. 16, 2026. (WJAR)<\/p>\n
Amid the commotion, Black said the shooter ended up falling right below him.<\/p>\n
“So literally I’m looking down and he’s looking up and we were staring right at each other. And at that point in time, I wanted to come down and put my knee or something to put it on his body to try to hold them down,” he said.<\/p>\n
That’s when, Black said, the shooter pulled out a second gun and shot himself. <\/p>\n
When asked about what other described as his life-saving actions, Black said he didn’t see himself as a hero.<\/p>\n
“When I saw what the police did, fire, paramedics, at the hospital last night, I have such a high-level appreciation of what they do every day. And as I was sitting at the hospital last night, I recognize, you know, I have heroes in my life, but these should be our heroes,” Black said. <\/p>\n
However, he said a phone call he received from a Pawtucket detective changed his perspective a little bit. <\/p>\n
“He said, we were interviewing, the daughter yesterday, and she has a belief on what happened. As the shooter was coming down, he was shooting one person, the next, the next. And she said, he was looking at me. I was going to be next. And she told the police officer, until this guy in a black jacket tackled him and took the gun away, I’m sure he would have killed me. And that changed my perspective a little bit of appreciating that, you know, I kind of changed,” Black said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WJAR) \u2014 One of the “good Samaritans” credited with intervening with the shooter at the Lynch Arena during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-184277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}