Ice Rink Shooting-Hero
In this image taken from video, Michael Black, a Rhode Island man who helped stop a shooter at a high school hockey game on Monday, gestures during an interview with The Associated Press, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026 in Spartanburg, S.C.
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Moments after Robert Dorgan starting shooting family members at a hockey game, three people in the stands rushed toward the shooter. Among them was Michael Black, who recalled hearing the shots and lunging for Dorgan's gun. Black managed to catch his hand in the gun and jam it. Two others helped him subdue Dorgan, but not before the 56-year-old could reach for a second gun and die from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The shooter's ex-wife Rhonda Dorgan and adult son Aidan Dorgan were killed Monday and three others were injured: Rhonda Dorgan’s parents, Linda and Gerald Dorgan; and a family friend, Thomas Geruso.
