UPDATE: Suspect named in hockey shooting

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From NY PostPolice identified the gunman who killed two people and critically injured three others at a high school hockey game in Rhode Island on Monday afternoon as Robert Dorgan and revealed he went by a female name.

The 56-year-old father, who shot family members and a family friend before he turned the gun on himself following the deadly rampage at the Pawtucket ice rink, used the alias Roberta Esposito, Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves said during a press conference Monday night.

Dorgan is the father of a North Providence High School senior who was competing in the hockey tournament, local station WPRI reported.


“We have identified the person, the suspect, by a birth name, the birth name was Robert Dorgan,” Goncalves said. “We have also learned that the person does go by the name of Roberta, also uses a last name of Esposito.”

Dorgan’s child, a North Providence High School senior, competed in the hockey tournament.

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