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At least two people have been killed, and three others are in critical condition after a mass shooting at a high school ice hockey game in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.<\/p>\n
The suspected gunman died, it appears by a self-inflicted gunshot wound, after opening fire, Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves said at a news conference on Monday.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt appears that this was a targeted event; that it may be a family dispute,\u201d Goncalves added, without providing more details about the suspect or the victims.<\/p>\n
Authorities said the first emergency call reporting the shooting was received at 2:28pm local time (19:28 GMT), adding that investigators are still working to piece together the events leading up to the attack.<\/p>\n
According to a report<\/a> by the Providence Journal news outlet, video footage appears to show a rapid burst of about 13 shots over six seconds, followed by a final shot roughly 11 seconds later from an area outside the camera\u2019s view.<\/p>\n Several shots were heard at the Dennis M Lynch Arena before spectators at the hockey match and student athletes began reacting, dropping to the floor to take cover, looking for shelter, and eventually fleeing towards the exits.<\/p>\n Support to Pawtucket<\/p>\n \u201cWhat should have been a joyful occasion, with dozens of families, students, and supporters gathered to celebrate Senior Night \u2026 was instead marked by violence and fear,\u201d Pawtucket Mayor Don Grebien said in a statement.<\/p>\n \u201cOur prayers go out to the victims, their families, and everyone impacted by this devastating incident.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n In a post on X, FBI director Kash Patel said<\/a> agents from the agency\u2019s Boston Division have been deployed to Pawtucket to support the investigation.<\/p>\n
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High school hockey players and parents speak to a police officer near the Lynch Arena in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, after a shooting at the ice rink on Monday [Mark Stockwell\/AP]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The attacker has also died from, likely, a self-inflicted gunshot wound after opening fire at an ice hockey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[3071,7922,3,1583,99,21],"class_list":["post-473722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-crime","tag-gun-violence","tag-news","tag-police","tag-sports","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473722","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=473722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}