Shooting at hockey game kills 3TRAGEDY: In video footage circulating online, players initially continued playing after the first few shots, before a series of staccato bursts sent them fleeing for coverAP, PAWTUCKET, Rhode IslandA shooting during a Rhode Island youth hockey game on Monday left three people dead, including the shooter and three more hospitalized in critical condition, authorities said. She said that someone helped bring a swift end to the violent scene by intervening and trying to subdue the shooter, who was at an arena to watch a family member’s hockey game. A woman holds a child outside the Dennis M. Lynch Arena after a shooting in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, on Monday. They also were reviewing video taken from the hockey game. Outside the arena, tearful families and high school hockey players still in uniform were seen hugging before they boarded a bus to leave the area.

Source: Taipei Times February 17, 2026 17:29 UTC