© Roberta Dorgano/XThe shooter, identified as 56-year-old transgender father Robert Dorgan — who also went by Roberta Esposito — died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said
Comment: If we don't reopen asylums for these mentally sick individuals, terrible incidents like this will keep occurring. This is the result of our leaders encouraging such behavior. They have blood on their hands.
A twisted trans father shot his wife, three kids and a family friend in the stands at a high school hockey tournament in Rhode Island on Monday — sending the panicked crowd screaming and fleeing for the exits.
Two people were killed and three others are in critical condition at a hospital after the gunfire erupted at Lynch Arena in Pawtucket around 2:30 p.m., according to cops, who described the incident as a targeted family dispute.
The shooter, identified as 56-year-old Robert Dorgan — who also went by Roberta Esposito — died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.
Dorgan was the father of a senior at North Providence High School, one of the six schools participating in the co-op games, WPRI reported.
He shot his son's mother, their three children and a family friend who were all spectators at the game, according to reports.
The mother died at the scene, and one of the children died at the hospital, the local outlet reported.
A woman who was seen leaving the Pawtucket Police Department following the deadly rampage told reporters, "My father was the shooter" and claimed that he was plagued by "mental health issues."
Comment: Days before he went on his rampage, Dorgan threatened to "go berserk" in a trans rights rant. This comes just days after 18-year-old transgender high school dropout, Jesse Van Rootselaar, murdered his own mom and stepbrother before gunning down six others at his former school in Canada.
"He shot my family, and he's dead now," she said, adding that he was "very sick."
A livestream of the hockey match captured the moment spectators and players dove to the floor as approximately 11 gunshots rang out.
Many players on the bench scrambled as they pushed to squeeze out of the box, with some ditching their skates in the process. Others vaulted over the barrier surrounding the rink and headed straight for the locker room, according to the harrowing video.
Witnesses told CBS News that, in the chaos, they surmised the gunshots were "balloons" popping or "the kids banging the boards with their skates."
But when the shots continued, they all rushed to evacuate, while some tried to assist the victims in the stands. A hero bystander disarmed the gunman, but he had another weapon, according to witnesses.
Branden Mello, a local sports editor, said one father at the game wrestled a gun out of the shooter's hands, but they still "had a second weapon."
Olin Lawrence, a sophomore goalkeeper for Coventry High School, told CBS News that he and the other players barricaded themselves inside a locker room.
"We were just trying to be safe. We were trying to see if everyone was all good and if everyone was safe. Just to get everyone on the door. We pressed against the door and just tried to stay safe down in there. It was very scary. We were very nervous. It was a lot of shots," Olin said.
Melissa Dunn fled the arena but doubled back to locate her son, who was competing on one of the teams. When she made it back inside, she said, she saw people performing CPR on the victims in the stands.
Pawtucket Mayor Donald Grebien said law enforcement is working in tandem with the Rhode Island Attorney General's Office "to ensure the facts are fully established" before making any other announcements.
"Pawtucket is a strong and resilient community, but tonight we are a city in mourning. We will stand together to support all those affected in the difficult days ahead, and we will keep the public updated as confirmed facts become available," Grebien said.
The FBI's Boston field office is also assisting the investigation, FBI Director Kash Patel announced on X.
Lynch Arena is home ice for the Johnson and Wales Wildcats hockey team, and was hosting matches with several local schools at the time.
Students from Coventry, Johnston, North Providence, and North Smithfield high schools were all participating in games with St. Raphael Academy and Providence Country Day School when the shooting occurred, as reported by WJAR.
St. Raphael Academy told WJAR that it has "been told none of our [school] family was injured" in the shooting. Coventry's superintendent also confirmed that all of the town's students were accounted for.
Johnston Public Schools told the outlet that its sole student-athlete participating in the tourney and a spectator were both safe.
They added that no other Johnston students were injured, "to the best of our knowledge."
Reader Comments
Now I'm waiting for the calls to ban guns l, but not calls to ban the bs.
If this was conceptualized as the experimental arm of a study, it should be shut down immediately for its demonstrated failures in safety.
Which is not a joke. The pseudo-estrogen contained in grains (including beer) have the same effect.
With it currently still growing/developing, when you use it, how do you choose what to believe? For instance, if you ask it to descibe a spoon, and it describes a fork, you'll know it is wrong, so you'll probably rephrase the question until you get the correct answer. Silly example, but still...
So, when it comes to more complex questions, how do you know know that what you are getting is accurate? Do you cross-reference or do you just trust the machine?
I ask you because you seem to use it often. I don't agree with its use at all but I appreciate that you always state when you quote AI.
Was it effective? I took the trucking job after it was implemented. The company went out of business, I don't think it was connected. In my view, management chose the program thinking it would eliminate having thinking people make the decisions; more money.
This is a "minor" AI program. The AI programs like Grok are massive, essentially using the information available, which depending on the topic can be the narrative, like the assassination of JFK or 9/11, or relatively neutral information. I ask AI about both, since I am relatively confident in my ability to spot the narrative. The other I use to provide context to SOTT articles, mostly about information that I have known something about in the past. If AI spouts certain phrases like "conspiracy theory" I know the subject is the narrative.
There are areas I don't know or haven't researched, like finances, China, Venezuela, Iran. In that case I try to think about questions that provide context that I don't know.
In the beginning it was relatively easy to nail such an "AI" system, to either admit a lie, evade or refuse to answer, or flat-out crash.
This has became harder over time. The systems seem to be coded to actively defend a core narrative - like a politician who admits to a "minor mistake" because he was caught red-handed, but hushing up the fact he is a totally corrupt sociopath.
Perhaps they can't keep up with the revelations and the amount of people waking up, and counter it by "flooding the zone" with "AI" gatekeeper agents.
I am not willing to help train and improve them.
codis This is the scary thing. It really bothers me. People who use it, no matter the reason, is constantly feeding the machine and it is learning and growing. It really freaks me out, but then again, so do psycho pedo baby eaters, so one has to pick your battles I suppose.
When it comes to tech I am a bit set in my ways. When all this touch-screen tech came out it also freaked me out and it took me a long time to adjust. I really miss my phone with buttons. If it wasn't for work, I wouldn't have one at all.
When I say facts, I mean things like:
How to replace the water intake valve on my dishwasher.
Give me the nutritional information for the following meal.
Explain the difference between a .223 & .5.56 NATO rounds
Those kinds of queries are usually pretty safe and accurate.
Things that would be suspect:
Explain the root cause of conflict in the Middle East
Why is Russia at war with Ukraine
Those things should be taken with a grain of salt.
But for everyday mundane things, AI queries are usually pretty good.
I think a lot of people use AI out of convenience , and to me that's dangerous. Same as most SMART tech, the selling point is generally convenience and/or efficienty. But, like codis mentioned earlier: Are the AI creators just nice guys, or was this tech given to the public, for free, for other reasons?
Anyway, I don't trust AI tech and I don't use it. Just set in my old ways, but to each their own.
Terrifying stuff. How long before it goes rogue? The old sci-fi movies don't seem like fiction any more.
I understand programming at a high level for business programming. I understand that AI is not sentient, it is programmed based on the money-power, and its rating of information that it reports is Framed if it relates to the narrative. Framed information, like vaccination which I was trained in, in a PhD program, is an example, "All vaccines are safe and effective" - every big corporation provided "free" flu vaccines. Most sheeple are under the illusion of "safe and effective"; they do not research side effects or death.
In terms of evaluating a post by an author or by AI, in my research, I am looking for Framing of the context of events or evidence. Why? Because in my research on neuro linguistic programming, I discovered that it Frames the context to manipulate the perception of reality and thus control the belief systems and behavior of people. This led me to find Shorat 's (forgot her first name), a neuroscientist, who found that people make decisions and think from the point of view of belief systems, not evidence.
The globalist Framing of context has been set out in books by Brzezinsky, WEF, CFR and in the agenda 2030: global warming is created by automobiles and cow gas for example.
In reviewing the book, Now, Discover your Strengths, they describe one strength as making connections between various people, events, etc. Whitney Webb is a good example of that strength, as she makes excellent connections between people, corporations, money, events.
What works against making connections? Most people live in a silo of information based on their career. A scientist does not study science, they study the current dogma of a research silo, like cAMP. How can they make connections? Someone like Gerald Pollack who wrote the book on the Fourth Phase of water discovered it because he was not only in one silo.
I have begun to use the phrase, A perspective. Why? Because each of us has a perspective. For example, my perspective is Donald Trump and team are dismantling the globalist power structure and there is evidence for that. Many in MSM and on SOTT see Trump as simply another globalist, and they point to evidence like Israel-Iran.
I agree on your use of perspectives. Everyone has their own. Agreed. I would also add emotions to this. In my experience most people will make descisions based on emotion, rather than evidence.
But twhat is funny - nobody forces you to apply the same rigor to other areas, like finance, health or politics. It really baffled me to see many good engineering guys swallow the "safe and effective" myth without second thought or question. On a related note, one of those guys returned back to work in my company last week, after chemotherapy and a long recovery phase.
It took me more than 5 decades to finally realize "intelligence" and "common sense" are separate and unrelated things ...
Regarding, "But what is funny - nobody forces you to apply the same rigor to other areas, like finance, health or politics. It really baffled me to see many good engineering guys swallow the "safe and effective" myth".
It really shows how people have been indoctrinated that the education we receive is true, and to trust the "experts" in other silos of information.
These people are seriously ill but are being portrayed as being brave. Most are a powder keg ready to blow at the slightest provocation. Hiding the psychopathy with false tits and makeup only lasts so long. This weirdo went off on one when his father-in-law objected to 'Roberta' staying at his home with a family that didn't want him there.
There was only one place for 'Roberta' and its wasn't an operating theatre.