They identified the perpetrator of the shooting at the ice hockey rink in the United States

“My father was the shooter.”confirmed the young woman. “He shot my family. And now he is dead,” he continued in a brief contact with the press upon leaving the police station. city ​​of pawtucketwhere the Dennis M. Lynch Arena, which was the scene of the tragedy, is also located.

In that same direction, the woman, visibly distressed, added: “”Have mental health problems. “I was very sick.”

For its part, in a press conference, the Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalvesadmitted that they had identified “the person who carried out the attack by his birth name.”

“They are birth name was Robert Dorgan. We also know that Her name is Roberta and she uses the last name Esposito.. But, I repeat, all this will be confirmed during the investigation,” the police chief told the media.

According to local media, Dorgan’s gender identity was cited by his ex-wife, Rhonda, in the divorce application filed in 2020. In the “reasons” section, the woman initially wrote: “gender reassignment surgery, narcissistic traits + personality disorder.”

Then, always according to WPRI, those arguments were canceled and replaced by “irreconcilable differences, which caused the immediate breakdown of the marriage.”

Goncalves also stated that the attacker died for an apparent self-inflicted gunshot woundthat the suspect had attended the event to watch a relative play and that the shooting would have been linked to a conflict within his immediate environment.

The incident occurred this Monday when a person opened fire from the stands of the stadiumor in the middle of the game youth hockey entre equipos de la cooperativa Coventry-Johnston y St. Raphael-Providence Country Day-North Providence-North Smithfield.

Citing police sources, CNN indicated that the event, which also left three other people injuredseemed to derive from a domestic disputesince the aggressor shot members of his own family.

Investigators are still trying to piece together what happened and speak with witnesses to the shooting inside the Dennis M. Lynch Arena in Pawtucket, a few miles from Providence, near the state border with Massachusetts and with just under 80,000 residents.

The shooting came nearly two months after another episode of violence in Rhode Island, when a man killed two students and wounded two others inside the Brown University campus. The attacker later murdered a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Authorities later located Claudio Neves Valente, 48, who shot himself to death in New Hampshire.

“Fortunately, the two incidents are not related, but it is very tragic,” said Pawtucket Mayor Don Grebien. “These are high school kids, they were at an event, they were playing in front of fans and it turned into this.”