{"id":137233,"date":"2026-02-18T12:22:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/137233\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:22:29","slug":"ri-hockey-shooter-robert-dorgan-threatened-to-go-berserk-in-trans-rights-rant-day-before-mass-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/137233\/","title":{"rendered":"RI hockey shooter Robert Dorgan threatened to go ‘BERSERK’ in trans-rights rant day before mass shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

The crazed transgender dad who shot up a high school hockey game<\/a> in Rhode Island threatened to go \u201cBERSERK\u201d in a trans-rights rant just a day before he massacred two family members and injured three others.<\/p>\n

Robert Dorgan<\/a>, who also identified as Roberta Esposito, killed himself after opening fire at the Pawtucket ice rink<\/a> where his son was playing on Monday afternoon \u2014 less than a week after another transgender gunman shot up a school in one of Canada\u2019s deadliest mass shootings.<\/p>\n

The night before the bloodshed, the 56-year-old dad \u2014 who underwent gender reassignment surgery in 2020 \u2014 made an ominous post on X in anger at someone calling trans Democratic Rep. Sarah McBride a man.<\/p>\n

Robert Dorgan opened fire at a high school hockey game in Rhode Island on Monday, Feb. 16, 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cKeep bashing us. But do not wonder why we Go BERSERK,\u201d Dorgan wrote in the chilling post.<\/p>\n

Police believe Dorgan, too, was targeting his own family when he wreaked havoc at the ice rink following years of heated court disputes over his identity.<\/p>\n

The fatal victims of Monday\u2019s shooting include the mother of Dorgan\u2019s hockey player son and the student athlete\u2019s sibling, multiple sources told WPRI.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t immediately clear if the mom gunned down was Dorgan\u2019s ex-wife.<\/p>\n

Dorgan responding to actor Kevin Sorbo with, \u201cKeep bashing us. But do not wonder why we Go BERSERK,\u201d after the posted about Democratic Rep. Sarah McBride. X\/Roberta Dorgano<\/p>\n

His ex filed for divorce in 2020 on the grounds of \u201cgender reassignment surgery, narcissistic + personality disorder traits,\u201d according to the court filing obtained by the local outlet.<\/p>\n

Their split was finalized in 2021.<\/p>\n

The three people who were injured in Monday\u2019s shooting included two other relatives and a family friend. They remained in a critical condition, cops said.<\/p>\n

Dorgan shot and killed two people and critically injured three others at a high school hockey game in Rhode Island on Monday, Feb. 16, 2026.<\/p>\n

A woman spotted leaving the Pawtucket police station in the wake of the shooting\u00a0identified herself as the gunman\u2019s daughter, telling reporters he \u201chas mental health issues\u201d and was \u201cvery sick.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe shot my family,\u00a0and\u00a0he\u2019s dead now,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Follow The Post\u2019s latest coverage on the Rhode Island high school hockey shooting<\/p>\n

Police haven\u2019t released any details about the victims and said they are still probing an exact motive.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt appears that this was a targeted event, that it may be a family dispute,\u201d Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves said.<\/p>\n

Livestream footage of the hockey game as a shooting broke out on Monday, Feb. 16, 2026. EricRueb\/X<\/p>\n

The shooter\u2019s ex-wife, Rhonda Dorgan, filed for divorce in 2020. Rhonda Dorgan \/ Facebook<\/p>\n

Detectives were reviewing chilling surveillance from inside the area that showed\u00a0players diving for cover and fans fleeing their seats after the gunfire broke out \u2013 as they piece together what happened.<\/p>\n

The police chief hailed a Good Samaritan who apparently jumped in to try\u00a0to\u00a0subdue the shooter.<\/p>\n

Witnesses said the man \u2014 the father of another hockey player \u2014 managed to disarm Dorgan, but he had a backup firearm.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The ice rink slaughter came just days after 18-year-old transgender high school dropout, Jesse Van Rootselaar, murdered his mom own and stepbrother<\/a> before gunning down six others at his former school in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The crazed transgender dad who shot up a high school hockey game in Rhode Island threatened to go…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7459,9,11,10,20103,3980,4015,9889,58,17534],"class_list":{"0":"post-137233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-mass-shootings","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-news","12":"tag-rhode-island","13":"tag-shootings","14":"tag-social-media","15":"tag-transgender","16":"tag-us-news","17":"tag-x-formerly-twitter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}