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Pawtucket Shooting
A police officer stands in front of a public transit bus that was used to bus hockey players away from the Lynch Arena in Pawtucket, R.I., after a shooting at the ice rink, Monday, Feb. 16, 2026.
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Pawtucket Chief of Police Tina Goncalves says the person who opened fire during a youth hockey game at an ice rink in Rhode Island killed their ex-wife and one son. Goncalves says the victims were the shooter’s ex-wife Rhonda Dorgan and adult son Aidan Dorgan. The shooter injured three others during the shooting Monday afternoon in Pawtucket, among them Goncalves says was the shooter’s ex-wife’s parents and a family friend. Police have identified the shooter as 56-year-old Robert Dorgan, who also went by the name Roberta Esposito.
