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1 dead, 4 hospitalized in mass shooting at Pawtucket, RI, high school hockey game
NY Post ^ | 02/16/2026 | Chris Nesi

Posted on 02/16/2026 2:36:32 PM PST by DFG

A young girl was killed and four other people were hospitalized after a gunman opened fire in the middle of a high school hockey game in Rhode Island on Monday afternoon.

The full number of wounded was not immediately known, but the suspect in the broad daylight shooting died at the scene, WPRI reports.

The mayor’s office said that authorities aren’t searching for any additional suspects, according to a statement obtained by WJAR.

The shooting was reported at Lynch Arena in Pawtucket, RI. The arena is home ice for the Johnson and Wales Wildcats hockey team.

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, according to reported by WJAR.

An employee at a nearby Walgreens told WPRI that people came streaming into the store following the shooting to report the incident.

The employee said staffers were instructed to close the store and evacuate the building. People then hid inside the store as a staff member called 911.

Branden Mello, a local sports editor, said the shooting happened at a hockey game between two rival high schools, Coventry and Blackstone Valley.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: arth; chrisnesi; genderdysphoria; hockey; homosexualagenda; mentalillness; newyorkpost; pawtucket; rhodeisland; robertdorgan; transgender
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Video from the arena

https://x.com/rawsalerts/status/2023507291312714178

1 posted on 02/16/2026 2:36:32 PM PST by DFG
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To: DFG

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15565169/shooting-dennis-m-lynch-arena-hockey-pawtucket-rhode-island.html


2 posted on 02/16/2026 2:38:18 PM PST by DFG
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To: All

Working link
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Moment shots were fired

https://rumble.com/v75un8u-two-people-were-killed-and-three-people-were-injured-in-a-shooting-at-an-ic.html


3 posted on 02/16/2026 2:42:41 PM PST by janetjanet998 (Please don’t use google products, especially YouTube )
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To: DFG

The News9 story added this:

Pawtucket police say two adult victims are dead and three people are in critical condition in what investigators believe was a targeted shooting “that may be a family dispute.”

So is it like the funeral shootings, the birthday party ones and the family gathering mayhem ones?


4 posted on 02/16/2026 2:43:14 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: DFG

“hockey game”

The one time we can safely say the shooter was not black


5 posted on 02/16/2026 2:46:55 PM PST by mitchjackson1972 (End usury - It's OK to be white - https://ussliberty.org/)
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To: frank ballenger
The shooter, Cláudio Manuel Neves Valente, shot 11 people.

His name is an entire sentence.

6 posted on 02/16/2026 2:47:02 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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To: frank ballenger

This tendency is spreading from the ghettos and the barrios to the suburbs.


7 posted on 02/16/2026 2:48:22 PM PST by lee martell
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To: frank ballenger

They’ve really advanced from their traditional wedding reception fistfights.


8 posted on 02/16/2026 2:48:30 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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To: frank ballenger

Daily Caller says it was a father shooting his wife and two kids, then himself.


9 posted on 02/16/2026 2:48:58 PM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: mitchjackson1972

Maybe the shooter was an ICE protestor. /sarc


10 posted on 02/16/2026 2:50:05 PM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

No wonder the commie media isnt touching this one


11 posted on 02/16/2026 2:50:21 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: mitchjackson1972

No, you can’t say that…not in that location.


12 posted on 02/16/2026 2:52:24 PM PST by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: mitchjackson1972

several blacks play hockey now ... several areas have “community” hockey paid by the taxpayers ...


13 posted on 02/16/2026 2:55:25 PM PST by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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To: Tell It Right
Daily Caller says it was a father shooting his wife and two kids, then himself.

Could be, based on the rate fire and the time lapse before the final shot.

14 posted on 02/16/2026 2:56:10 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Tell It Right

Did that woman ever choose the wrong man for husband and the father of their children.

May they rest in peace.


15 posted on 02/16/2026 2:57:15 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: T.B. Yoits

Good Lord.


16 posted on 02/16/2026 3:01:02 PM PST by drwoof
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To: DFG

A domestic shooting. The father killed his wife and one of his daughters. The other daughter was wounded.

Sorry S.O.B. He took the coward’s way out and killed himself.


17 posted on 02/16/2026 3:01:05 PM PST by CFW
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To: Jeff Chandler

Cláudio Manuel Neves Valente

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WCVB
https://www.wcvb.com
Former classmate: Claudio Neves Valente was ‘bored’ and ‘hated’ Brown, Providence
Dec 20, 2025 — On Dec. 13, Neves Valente shot and killed two Brown University students and injured nine others in the Barus and Holley engineering building, ...

Department of Justice (.gov)
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U.S. v. Claudio Neves-Valente
Jan 6, 2026 — Claudio Manuel Neves Valente. [PH]. [UI]. Portuguese. English. Exegesis. Phonetic. Unintelligible. (standard font Times New Roman 12). (italics). https://www.wcvb.com/article/claudio-neves-valente-former-classmate-brown/69826623

Same/similar
Name as sHooter from January.


18 posted on 02/16/2026 3:05:10 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14/12- 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: DFG

3 dead, including shooter


19 posted on 02/16/2026 3:19:09 PM PST by Third Person
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To: PghBaldy

Another mad tranny attack?


20 posted on 02/16/2026 3:20:26 PM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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