{"id":200712,"date":"2026-02-17T10:41:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/shooting-at-rhode-island-ice-rink-leaves-at-least-two-people-dead-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T10:41:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:41:05","slug":"shooting-at-rhode-island-ice-rink-leaves-at-least-two-people-dead-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/shooting-at-rhode-island-ice-rink-leaves-at-least-two-people-dead-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting at Rhode Island ice rink leaves at least two people dead &#8211; The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police confirm suspect is one of dead in incident at boys\u2019 hockey game that injured four in Pawtucket<br \/>At least three people are dead and three more hospitalized in critical condition in a mass shooting at an indoor ice rink in Pawtucket, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/rhode-island\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\">Rhode Island<\/a>, during a high school hockey match on Monday afternoon, the police said.<br \/>The Pawtucket police chief, Tina Goncalves, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tQtu0cFwwGw&amp;list=RDNS1o_PpM5-jyk&amp;index=4\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">told reporters<\/a> at a news conference that the suspect is one of the dead.<br \/>\u201cWe\u2019re putting all the pieces together,\u201d Goncalves said, adding that one of the shooting victims died at the Dennis M Lynch arena and a second succumbed to their wounds later at a hospital.<br \/>The attacker appears to have died from a self-inflicted gun wound,\u201d Goncalves said.<br \/>Goncalves also said that the shooting appeared to have been a targeted event, possibly connected to a \u201cfamily dispute\u201d, but did not provide further details. Officials are not releasing names of any of the victims yet.<br \/>The Providence Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.providencejournal.com\/live-story\/news\/crime\/2026\/02\/16\/live-coverage-shooting-at-pawtucket-ri-ice-rink\/88709322007\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">reported<\/a> that video acquired from a service that livestreams sports events captured audio of a burst of roughly 13 shots, fired in rapid succession, and showed panicked players and spectators rushing away.<br \/>A Rhode Island high school sportswriter, Eric Rueb, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/EricRueb\/status\/2023503159231213713\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">shared a video clip<\/a> on social media with the caption: \u201cYou cannot see anything \u2013 the noise is unmistakeable \u2013 but the reaction and chaos that follows the follows tells the story.\u201d<br \/>The shooting took place during a boys\u2019 hockey game with students from multiple local schools, Pawtucket\u2019s mayor, Don Grebien, said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMikgFBVV95cUxOSzlzZzllcWR1RmpIWlQ1MlZmTW5US1JWdGUwcnEwLTRhLVYzU0R5RnlINTZSUEdqdlJSWmtQbTNmMlA3bHJHZ1FORDdBRDNlTGszWGJvUEk1Xzd1MEFhb0RERC1HdTByRGVsRmFwVlRDZlpqT2Y1eGNZbnQ1ODdoUTRjVDl1U185VWFOTDZFYjdqQQ?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police confirm suspect is one of dead in incident at boys\u2019 hockey game that injured four in PawtucketAt least three people are dead and three more hospitalized in critical condition in a mass shooting at an indoor ice rink in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, during a high school hockey match on Monday afternoon, the police said.The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-200712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-us","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}