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Trans gunman shoots wife, four kids and a family friend at Rhode Island hockey game

A 56-year-old man who identified as transgender went on a shooting rampage at a high school hockey game in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, killing his wife and daughter.

Clayton DeMaine
Feb 17, 2026
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Just one week after the Tumbler Ridge trans shooter took the lives of at least eight people, mostly children, a 56-year-old man who identified as transgender went on a shooting rampage at a high school hockey game in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, killing his wife and daughter and critically wounding two of his other children and a family friend before turning the gun on himself.

Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves announced hours after the Monday shooting that the shooter was Robert Dorgan, a trans-identifying male who went by the name “Roberta” and sometimes the last name “Esposito.”

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