{"id":473275,"date":"2026-02-17T05:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/473275\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T05:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T05:59:11","slug":"2-killed-3-wounded-in-youth-hockey-game-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/473275\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Killed, 3 Wounded in Youth Hockey Game Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Two people were killed in a shooting at a high school hockey tournament in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, on Monday, authorities say. Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves said the shooting at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena appeared to be a “targeted event,” reports NBC Boston<\/a>. The suspect also was killed, officials said. Goncalves said that authorities are trying to piece together what happened, but that it “may be a family dispute,” reports the AP<\/a>. Goncalves said three other victims were critically injured. <\/p>\n

In a post on X<\/a>, Rhode Island Gov. Dan McKee said local police are working with state law enforcement. “I am praying for Pawtucket and everyone involved,” he said. <\/p>\n


\n The Providence Journal<\/a> reports that a boys hockey game was being played between Coventry\/Johnston and Blackstone Valley Co-op when shots were fired. “It was pure chaos,” spectator Chip DeLorenzo tells the Journal. “People running out the back, kids in their skates. Like, they came off, they were playing hockey, and they came off the ice in their skates and equipment, and they ran through the parking lot.” He says he was taking photos when he heard what he initially thought was seven or eight firecrackers going off. “People obviously just like started screaming and freaking out,” he says. “And as soon as I heard that and I saw the reaction, I realized it wasn’t firecrackers.” \n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two people were killed in a shooting at a high school hockey tournament in Pawtucket, Rhode Island,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,35501,3,880,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-473275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-mass-shootings","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-rhode-island","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}