Rhode Island Hockey-Rink Shooting Linked to Domestic Dispute Leaves Two Dead

TL;DR
A 56-year-old man opened fire at a Pawtucket youth hockey game in Rhode Island, killing his ex-wife Rhonda Dorgan and their 23-year-old son Aidan and critically wounding three others (Rhonda’s parents Linda and Gerald Dorgan and family friend Thomas Geruso) in what investigators describe as a targeted attack tied to a domestic dispute; the shooter died by a self-inflicted gunshot after a Good Samaritan intervened. He had two legally owned firearms, held a Florida license, had lived in Maine since 2022, and worked at Bath Iron Works; a GoFundMe has been set up for the survivors.
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