CONFERENCE. LET’S LISTEN IN. THERE’S THERE’S ONE BEGINNING RIGHT NOW INSIDE THE ARENA. AND THERE WAS TWO CASUALTIES WITHIN THE ARENA. THE SUSPECT WAS CONFIRMED AS ONE OF THOSE CASUALTIES. LATER ON WE LEARNED THAT ANOTHER CASUALTY FROM THE SHOOTING WAS AT THE HOSPITAL, THAT THEY SUCCUMBED TO THEIR INJURIES AFTER BEING AT THE HOSPITAL. AND THERE IS THREE ADDITIONAL VICTIMS AT THE HOSPITAL THAT ALL ARE IN CRITICAL CONDITION AT THIS TIME. IT APPEARS THAT THIS WAS A TARGETED EVENT, THAT IT MAY BE A FAMILY DISPUTE. WE CANNOT RELEASE THE NAMES OF THE VICTIMS BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY WE WANT TO SPEAK TO THE FAMILY, MAKE SURE THAT THE FAMILY IS WELL AWARE OF WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE WE RELEASE THAT INFORMATION PUBLICLY. WE HAD ASSISTANCE FROM MULTIPLE POLICE DEPARTMENTS THAT CAME IN TO ASSIST TO OFFER THEIR ASSISTANCE. OBVIOUSLY, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IS ALSO THERE WITH US NOW GOING OVER THE CRIME SCENE. WE HAD SEVERAL PEOPLE IN THE BUILDING, SO WE ARE TALKING TO THEM. SO WE’RE TRYING TO PUT TOGETHER THE STORY AND THE TIMELINE OF WHAT HAPPENED. DID THIS HAPPEN IN THE STANDS? CAN YOU JUST DESCRIBE THE LAYOUT IN THERE AND WHERE THIS ALL TOOK PLACE? SO BECAUSE WE’RE IN THE INITIAL STAGES OF THE INVESTIGATION, I CAN’T GET INTO DETAIL. OBVIOUSLY WE’RE STILL INVESTIGATING THAT. WE’RE TALKING TO ALL THE WITNESSES. LIKE I SAID, THERE WERE SEVERAL PEOPLE WITHIN THE LYNCHIE ARENA BECAUSE IT WAS A HIGH SCHOOL HOCKEY GAME. SO WE’RE TALKING TO ALL THOSE WITNESSES. WE HAVE SEVERAL WITNESSES THAT WERE HERE AND THEN SOME THAT WE HAVE BROUGHT TO THE POLICE STATION WHERE WE’RE TALKING TO THEM. THERE. WE ALSO WERE ABLE TO TAKE EVERYBODY INSIDE THE BUILDING, AND WE REUNITED THEM WITH THEIR FAMILIES DOWN BY WALGREENS. WE USED RIPTA BUSSES TO BE ABLE TO REUNITE THOSE KIDS AND PEOPLE IN THE STANDS WITH THEIR FAMILIES. THE SHOOTER RELATED TO THE OTHER VICTIMS. YOU SAID A FAMILY DISPUTE? YES. SO BECAUSE IT’S A FAMILY DISPUTE, I DON’T KNOW. THE RELATIONSHIP EXACTLY AT THIS POINT BECAUSE IT’S STILL INITIAL. BUT YES, IT IS FAMILY RELATED. ARE YOU RELEASING ANY OTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE OTHER VICTIMS, THE ONES IN CRITICAL JUVENILE ADULTS? ANY OTHER? NOT AT THIS TIME. UNTIL WE SPEAK TO THE FAMILIES AND WE GET MORE INFORMATION. THE MAYOR SAID IT WAS A YOUNG GIRL. IS THAT CORRECT OR NOT? CORRECT? IT WAS JUST A FEMALES. ARE YOU SAYING NO AGE? YEAH. NO AGE. CHIEF FROM NBC10, CAN YOU CONFIRM THAT THE VICTIM IS ACTUALLY THE DAUGHTER OF THE SUSPECT? OKAY. SO I’M NOT GOING TO CONFIRM WHO ACTUALLY IS THE CASUALTIES AT THIS POINT BECAUSE AGAIN, WE WANT TO SPEAK TO THE FAMILIES AND MAKE SURE THE FAMILIES ARE WELL AWARE OF WHAT HAPPENED BEFORE WE RELEASE ANY INFORMATION. AGAIN, WE’RE STILL ONLY AT THE INITIAL STAGES. IT ONLY HAPPENED AT 230 THIS AFTERNOON. AGAIN, WE WENT IN. LIKE I SAID, THERE WERE SEVERAL PEOPLE IN THERE. WE HAVE SEVERAL WITNESSES THAT ARE AT THE STATION, SO WE’RE GOING TO PUT IT TOGETHER A STORY BEFORE WE RELEASE INFORMATION TO MAKE SURE THAT THE INFORMATION IS PUT OUT THERE IS ACCURATE AND CORRECT, AND THERE’S NOBODY, CHIEF, BEFORE VICTIMS ARE HOSPITALIZED, WERE THEY HOSPITALIZED BECAUSE THEY MAY HAVE BEEN TRAMPLED OR PUSHED DOWN, BUT THEY ACTUALLY WERE NOT SHOT? NO. SO WE HAVE LET ME SO WE HAVE THREE DECEASED VICTIMS, RIGHT? WE HAVE THREE DECEASED, THE SUSPECT. AND THEN WE HAVE TWO VICTIMS, AND THEN WE HAVE THREE AT THE HOSPITAL THAT WERE PART OF THE INCIDENT THAT NO, THEY WERE NOT TRAMPLED, THAT THEY WERE SHOT. YES. THE SUSPECT SHOT BY POLICE OR WAS IT SELF-INFLICTED? SPORTSCENTER. I’M SORRY. THERE’S MULTIPLE PEOPLE. OKAY, SO WHAT I CAN SAY RIGHT NOW IS THAT THAT’S THE INFORMATION THAT WE’RE GOING TO PUT OUT. WE’RE GOING TO OBVIOUSLY PROBABLY HAVE MORE INFORMATION AS THE DAY PROGRESSES. AGAIN, WE WANT TO SPEAK TO ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE WITNESSES SO THAT WE CAN GET AN ACCURATE STORY TO PUT OUT THERE. I CAN TELL YOU THAT WE’RE PROBABLY GOING TO HAVE ANOTHER PRESS RELEASE TOMORROW, RIGHT? WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT WE WANT TO TALK TO TODAY. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE GET ACCURATE STATEMENTS. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE PUT IT TOGETHER. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE SPEAK TO THE FAMILIES. AND AGAIN, WE HAVE TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL ALSO. AND IF WE CAN SPEAK TO THOSE VICTIMS AT THE HOSPITAL, WE OBVIOUSLY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DO THAT. ALSO, DO YOU EXPECT WHILE THE WEAPON WAS SO THAT’S THE INFORMATION I’M GOING TO GIVE YOU FOR RIGHT NOW. AND THEN AGAIN, I WILL GIVE YOU MORE INFORMATION AS WE GET IT. BUT I’M NOT BECAUSE IT’S A LITTLE CONFUSING. TO BE CLEAR, IF THE SUSPECT DEAD OF A SELF-INFLICTED GUNSHOT WOUND. SO POLICE INVOLVED AGAIN, WHAT I CAN SAY IS THAT NO, THE POLICE WERE NOT INVOLVED. OKAY, WHAT? I CAN SAY THAT AGAIN, WE’RE PUTTING ALL THE PIECES TOGETHER. IT APPEARS FROM A SELF-INFLICTED GUNSHOT WOUND. BUT WE ARE GOING TO INVESTIGATE THAT FULLY. THE POLICE WERE NOT INVOLVED IN THAT. THE SUSPECT WAS DEAD. AND THERE ARE TWO VICTIMS OR THOSE THOSE VICTIMS. WELL, I’M NOT RELEASING THEIR AGES, BUT IT APPEARS THAT THEY’RE BOTH ADULTS. ARE THEY BOTH RELATED TO THE SUSPECT? AGAIN, I’M TRYING TO. WE APPRECIATE IT. THAT’S OKAY. I JUST I KNOW AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE INFORMATION WE’RE PUTTING OUT THERE BECAUSE, AGAIN, THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS AT HOME, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE SPEAK TO THEM FIRST BEFORE THEY HEAR IT ON THE NEWS OR IN THE MEDIA. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR US TO MAKE CONTACT WITH THE FAMILIES AND GET AN ACCURATE DEPICTION OF WH
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Two people are dead and three others injured after a targeted shooting at a hockey arena in Rhode Island that may have been related to a family dispute, police said.Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves said the shooting at Dennis M. Lynch Arena appeared to be related to a domestic incident. Two people, including the shooter, died at the arena and a third person died at the hospital. The three people injured are in critical condition at the hospital, Goncalves said. They all have gunshot wounds, she added.Goncalves said it appeared the shooter died of a self-inflicted wound. Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are responding in order to assist local law enforcement, an agency spokesperson tells CNN.Rhode Island State Police are also working with local agencies, according to Gov. Dan McKee. Providence Police also have officers assisting, it said in a post on X.Two teams made up of students from multiple schools were playing in hockey games at the arena, according to WJAR. North Providence, one of the schools involved with a co-op team, told CNN that “preliminary information indicates the incident may have involved parent(s) of NP student(s).”Meanwhile, Coventry, another school, said all of its students have been accounted for.“An officer from the Coventry Police Department is on scene and remains with our students. Staff are also with the team, and we are continuing to monitor the situation while reunification plans are coordinated,” the superintendent, Don Cowart, said in a letter to parents, obtained by CNN.Saint Raphael Academy, which also had students on the team, said, “There was a horrific incident with an active shooter. We have been told none of our SRA family was injured,” according to WJAR.All North Providence students are safe, the school’s superintendent said in a statement to WJAR.“I am praying for Pawtucket and everyone involved,” McKee said on X.The latest spasm of gun violence comes just two months after a shooting at Brown University a few miles south left Rhode Island shaken and underscored the vulnerability of trusted community spaces.The arena is about 5 miles north of Brown University’s Barus and Holley engineering building in Providence, where a 48-year-old man opened fire in December, killing two students and wounding nine other people. It was the 41st mass shooting across the U.S. in the first 47 days of the year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
Two people are dead and three others injured after a targeted shooting at a hockey arena in Rhode Island that may have been related to a family dispute, police said.
Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves said the shooting at Dennis M. Lynch Arena appeared to be related to a domestic incident. Two people, including the shooter, died at the arena and a third person died at the hospital.
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The three people injured are in critical condition at the hospital, Goncalves said. They all have gunshot wounds, she added.
Goncalves said it appeared the shooter died of a self-inflicted wound.
Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are responding in order to assist local law enforcement, an agency spokesperson tells CNN.
Rhode Island State Police are also working with local agencies, according to Gov. Dan McKee. Providence Police also have officers assisting, it said in a post on X.
Two teams made up of students from multiple schools were playing in hockey games at the arena, according to WJAR. North Providence, one of the schools involved with a co-op team, told CNN that “preliminary information indicates the incident may have involved parent(s) of NP student(s).”
Meanwhile, Coventry, another school, said all of its students have been accounted for.
“An officer from the Coventry Police Department is on scene and remains with our students. Staff are also with the team, and we are continuing to monitor the situation while reunification plans are coordinated,” the superintendent, Don Cowart, said in a letter to parents, obtained by CNN.
Saint Raphael Academy, which also had students on the team, said, “There was a horrific incident with an active shooter. We have been told none of our SRA family was injured,” according to WJAR.
All North Providence students are safe, the school’s superintendent said in a statement to WJAR.
“I am praying for Pawtucket and everyone involved,” McKee said on X.
The latest spasm of gun violence comes just two months after a shooting at Brown University a few miles south left Rhode Island shaken and underscored the vulnerability of trusted community spaces.
The arena is about 5 miles north of Brown University’s Barus and Holley engineering building in Providence, where a 48-year-old man opened fire in December, killing two students and wounding nine other people.
It was the 41st mass shooting across the U.S. in the first 47 days of the year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
