Breaking - mass shooting at high school hockey competition

[malaise]

In Rhode Island. Several injured - shooter ‘Down’
Details to come
Coverage in CNN now

https://cbs12.com/news/nation-world/police-presence-dennis-m-lynch-arena-andrew-d-ferland-way-pawtucket-rhode-island-february-16-2026

Pawtucket mayor's office said Monday that a young girl was killed and four people were injured in a shooting at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena ice rink during a high school hockey game between two co-op teams.

The mayor's office said the shooter was dead and that police were not looking for anyone else.

The teams that were playing were Coventry-Johnston co-op and St. Raphael-Providence Country Day-North Providence-North Smithfield co-op.

[mzmolly]

1. Oh no.

[Ocelot II]

2. Gosh, it's about time for one of these. It's been more than a week if you don't count Canada.

[senseandsensibility]

3. Terrible.

I hope victims survive and aren't too badly hurt.

[malaise]

6. Looks like two dead

A young girl and shooter

[chouchou]

4. I thought you said: Shooting at a Hockey competition.

That would really be weird...and sad..

[malaise]

5. I did

Happened at a hockey rink - two teams were playing

[obamanut2012]

13. She did say that

[Vinca]

8. In this country we call that Monday.

[SuzyandPuffpuff]

9. Jfc

... and on and on and on it goes. So sick of this hatred. Young old black white male female hate hate hate ..needs to fucking stop

[malaise]

10. You forgot

rich poor - the gun manufacturers are filthy rich.

[BeneteauBum]

27. Yes!

Peace ☮️

[Beringia]

11. Coverage by The Guardian

Shooting at Rhode Island ice rink leaves at least two people dead

At least two people are dead in an apparent mass shooting at an indoor ice rink in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, on Monday afternoon, officials told the WPRI local news outlet.

Police confirmed to the outlet that the suspect is dead. A local sports reporter, Branden Mello, said that one of the shooting victims also died.

The shooting allegedly took place during a boys’ hockey game between two local schools.

Shots came from behind the stands, according to Mello. He also reported that a local father is being hailed as a “hero” after grabbing a gun from the shooter, though the shooter also had a second weapon.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/16/rhode-island-ice-rink-shooting-pawtucket

[malaise]

12. Thanks

Rec

[Chuuku Davis]

38. Another trans shooter

Factually

[BannonsLiver]

39. I'll bet that granular detail is lsn't brought up or discussed much here.

[Bluetus]

14. I guess I haven't been thinking and praying hard enough.

[SedgwickStreetTrance]

42. You DO know

that type of kindergarten spirituality notwithstanding, that God can still exist, right? That you're not just a bag of bones and that there's cause and effect in the Universe?

[Bluetus]

44. Be that as it may, we have the power to solve our problems in this life on this planet, here and now.

If anybody finds comfort in prayer, meditation, yoga or anything else that hurts nobody else, I support that 100%. But it is not a substitute for action and we cannot accept that, especially considering that the people suggesting nothing but thoughts and prayers are usually closer to the anti-Christ than the Christ.

My personal beliefs continue to evolve as we take tiny steps toward understanding little bits of the universe. My own philosophy does not include guardian angels and heavenly prayer minders, but the universe is vast, and we barely understand any of it. So I cannot criticize anybody else for how they think about the universe. Nonetheless, I will never accept a solution that is nothing but thoughts and prayers., and no actions in the here and now.

[SedgwickStreetTrance]

48. I agree

with the bulk of your post. It just sounded like you were saying that praying is worthless. I don't think it's either/or and I have always thought that prayer was begging God. I don't think it's has to be and I like the saying: "Prayer🙏 🤲🏻 is talking to God and meditation is listening 👂🏿 to God." 😊

[Bluetus]

54. I fully suppoprt everyone's right to all of that

In the great faith versus science debate, we have zero facts to support faith, but we may have only a 1% understanding of the universe from a scientific standpoint, so I don't see either side of that argument (if there is an argument) having a strong position. I don't start from a position of actively involved gods. But there is so much we don't yet understand about the universe, I don't think anything can be ruled out.

For example, science has established with strong evidence that there was a "big bang" and many decades of measurements seem to confirm that was about 14 billion Earth-years ago. For a long time, the prevailing thinking was that eventually the universe would stop expanding, and would eventually shrink back to a single point, and who knows what would happen after that?

But then, in 1933, the idea of "dark matter" was proposed. It was not until the 1970s that real measurements provided scientific evidence that dark matter exists. But even today, we can't measure it directly and prevailing thinking is that the invisible matter is actually much greater that the matter visible to us. That supported the theory that the universe would eventually collapse.

Until ... in 1998, "dark energy" was discovered, giving support to the ever-expanding universe theory. But the same mathematics that enabled those findings also predict MULTIPLE universes. etc etc etc.

What I am getting at is, one could regard the physics of our universe(s) to be a form of "god". So nobody really knows about any of this for sure, and we are nowhere near a scientific certainty about the future of the universe. So we all just try to get through life understanding things the best way we can. I think an active "eye on the sparrow" god is quite unlikely, but I can't tell you how the universe was created and how the laws of physics came to be. Did a "god" decide all that?

[KS Toronado]

56. Welcome to DU!

[aeromanKC]

15. I'm old enough to remember when school shootings were above the fold news.

I know I know, I'm dating myself there.

[Evolve Dammit]

17. Old enough to remember we had ZERO. Columbine which was the first and a unique tragedy. Now it is the norm. Thanks NRA

[calimary]

20. Yep. WHEN do we finally get over the so-called love affair with guns?

When? Does it even make sense to hold out hope anymore?

Sadly enough, the thing many of us now go straight to is “how long before the next one?”

[Evolve Dammit]

55. It will never stop here. It is a uniquely "American problem." I have two daughters that were in multiple lockdowns over

the last 10 years. Last week as a matter of fact. Since Sandy Hook, I always wonder what all the sirens are about.
It really is a national tradgedy, but then we have so many these days.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

16. sad and strange

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

18. Hooray for guns!

I mean, honestly. How boring would it be to live in a country without daily gun violence?

Although I'd be willing to try.

[calimary]

21. I would, too.

[Exp]

19. What THE FUCK is WRONG with people ??!!!!

[BeneteauBum]

28. Trump derangement syndrome

Peace ☮️

[Mosby]

41. What is that?

Are liberals deranged? Is that what you are saying? Do you have any evidence that the shooter was a liberal "suffering" from Trump derangement syndrome?

[SedgwickStreetTrance]

43. I think the reply

was ambiguous. I saw something that actually claimed s/he was a Trump supporter.

[BeneteauBum]

45. Pardon me

My intent was to point out that violence has become more prevalent in the tRump years. It seems that violence has become a more acceptable way of settling issues than peaceful dialogue. Again, I’m attributing Trump Derangement Syndrome to the idiots than blindly follow the truly deranged president.
Peace ☮️

[Mosby]

50. "Trump Derangement Syndrome" is a INSULT directed at Democrats.

It's derived from "Obama Derangement Syndrome".

Here's the definition:

Trump derangement syndrome (TDS) is a pseudoscientific pejorative term used to describe negative reactions to U.S. president Donald Trump that are characterized as irrational and disconnected from Trump's actual policy positions.[1] The term has mainly been used by Trump supporters to discredit criticism of him, as a way of reframing the discussion by suggesting that his opponents are incapable of accurately perceiving the world.

-snip-

According to The Independent, "the highly-politicized term" was coined to dismiss criticism of Trump in his first term as liberal hysteria, suggesting that people abandon all logic and reason due to their dislike of the president.

Trump and his top communication advisers, including current White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and communications director Steven Cheung, have repeatedly accused many critics of having a "severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome". The phrase has also been used by Republican politicians and talk show hosts. Newsweek was also accused of suffering from TDS by Cheung. Democrats and others have contended that it is not a legitimate condition, and no clinical data supports its existence and that instead, it is a label used to dismiss criticism of him.

Examples:

Senator Rand Paul has cited the so-called syndrome several times. In a July 16, 2018, interview he said investigators should simply focus on election security and stop "accusing Trump of collusion with the Russians and all this craziness that's not true"—accusations which he said were entirely motivated by "Trump derangement syndrome"

In July 2018, Jeanine Pirro was a guest on The View to promote her newly published book[which?]. While she was responding to a question about how the "deep state" really works, she accused co-host Whoopi Goldberg of suffering from Trump derangement syndrome.

In August 2018, Trump White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders used the term in a tweet: "Trump Derangement Syndrome is becoming a major epidemic among Democrats. Instead of freaking out about the booming Trump economy why not celebrate it?

In September 2018, Fox News personality and Trump supporter Sean Hannity criticized The Washington Post as having Trump derangement syndrome for stating in an editorial that Trump, because of his attitude toward climate change, is "complicit" in hurricanes battering the United States;[39][40] Hannity said, "it is now a full-blown psychosis, it is a psychological level of unhingement I have never seen."

In December 2025, following the killing of Rob and Michele Reiner, Trump suggested in a Truth Social post that Rob Reiner's death was caused by anger toward his "Trump derangement syndrome.

Republicans are trying to get it classified as a mental illness affecting liberals and progressives:

A group of Minnesota Senate Republicans introduced a bill[52] in March 2025 that seeks to classify "Trump Derangement Syndrome" as a mental illness and incorporate it into the state's legal definition through amended statutes.[32] The bill has proposed that the "syndrome" as the "acute onset of paranoia in otherwise normal persons that is in reaction to the policies and presidencies of President Donald J. Trump" which should be recognized in legal and medical contexts.[53][18] The bill also states that the symptoms may include "Trump-induced general hysteria, which produces an inability to distinguish between legitimate policy differences and signs of psychic pathology in President Donald Trump's behavior" which can manifest as "intense verbal hostility toward Trump" and "overt acts of aggression and violence" towards Trump and MAGA supporters.[32][18] The Minnesota bill uses the same wording that Krauthammer used to describe Bush derangement syndrome.

So what was your point when you used a right wing insult?

[Emile]

52. I think the ones with Trump Derangement Syndrome are the MAGATS.

[Beringia]

22. More from W--Providence--Rhode Island (WPRI) news

PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WPRI) — The father of a North Providence High School senior shot five members of the student’s family at a hockey game Monday, killing two and injuring three others before killing himself, Target 12 has confirmed.

https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/blackstone-valley/multiple-people-shot-at-pawtucket-ice-skating-rink/

[UpInArms]

29. WTaF

PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WPRI) — The father of a North Providence High School senior shot five members of the student’s family at a hockey game Monday, killing two and injuring three others before killing himself, Target 12 has confirmed.

The student’s mother was killed at the rink, while a sibling died at the hospital, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the incident.

The three other family members were in critical condition at Rhode Island Hospital as of late Monday afternoon, a spokesperson for Brown Health confirmed. No names have been released so far.

This is horrifying

[Mosby]

32. Robert (Roberta) Dorman was identified as the shooter

At a late-night news conference, Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves said Dorgan also went by the name “Roberta,” and court documents show his gender identity played a role in multiple family disputes over recent years.

In early 2020, Dorgan went to the North Providence Police Department and reported he had recently undergone gender-reassignment surgery and that his father-in-law wanted him out of their North Providence home because of it.

-snip-

Around the same time, Dorgan’s then-wife Rhonda Dorgan filed for divorce. Under grounds for divorce, Rhonda initially wrote, “gender reassignment surgery, narcissistic + personality disorder traits.” Those reasons were then crossed out and replaced with “irreconcilable differences which have caused the immediate breakdown of the marriage.”

The divorce was finalized in June 2021, court records show.

https://www.wpri.com/target-12/pawtucket-shooters-gender-identity-tied-to-past-family-disputes-court-records-show/

[UpInArms]

35. Thank you for the updated information

I wish Roberta had killed herself first instead of after shooting her family

[3catwoman3]

51. I wish that every time one of these horrific slaughters takes place

[malaise]

47. Good effin grief

Thanks for the update

[johnp3907]

23. Violence at a hockey game? Shocking!

Almost makes you think celebrating violence is a bad idea!

[MIButterfly]

24. Lord have mercy.

Another day, another shooting. When will it end?

[Initech]

26. It will end when we take back the billionaire owned media.

[James48]

30. 'Merika.

Because - make America great, right?

[yellow dahlia]

31. This is tragic.

Apparently the father had well known mental health issues, and strife with his family.

And somehow - he was allowed to have guns.

[Melon]

36. The second one in a few weeks(Canada) where the shooter was clearly identified as mentally ill

And still got a gun.

[Chuuku Davis]

37. She

Is trans.

[BannonsLiver]

40. Definitely had mental health issues. That much is clear.

Will leave it at that.

[Torchlight]

46. Heartbreaking

What unsettles me is realizing that I'm no longer shocked by these stories anymore, just deeply disheartened. No one should have to grow confidently expectant of this kind of violence, but here I am.

[Swede]

49. Here in Canada we're still mourning the BC shooting.

My Facebook is full of updates of those injured, three greaving families, friends and neighbors. The leaders of the major parties went to the memorial, they held each other’s hands, chocked up. We are not used to this.

[Oneironaut]

53. This is a tragedy, and, will only further the message that trans people are inherently dangerous and shouldn't exist.

It would have been better for everyone is this pos killed themself at home and harmed no one else.

And this is why we can’t have nice things. This has been a rough month or so, and, none of us want this.