A man fatally shot his wife at an ice hockey rink in the United States.
On 17 February 2026, a shocking incident occurred when a man went on a shooting spree, killing his wife and two of his own children in front of sports fans inside an ice hockey arena in Rhode Island, United States. The perpetrator also died, alongside his wife.
Police stated that the violence appeared targeted, possibly related to a family dispute, while investigators continue gathering further details.
Authorities revealed that three people died, including the shooter, during the shooting at a youth hockey game in Rhode Island last Monday.
Police Chief Tina Goncalves told reporters that three others remain hospitalized in critical condition, while the shooter died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Officers are working to piece together the sequence of events and are interviewing witnesses. They are also reviewing video footage from the hockey game; an unverified clip circulating on social media shows players ducking for cover and spectators fleeing their seats after hearing what sounded like gunfire.
The shooting occurred at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena in Pawtucket, near the city of Providence.
This incident came nearly two months after Rhode Island faced another gun violence episode at Brown University, where a shooter killed two students and injured nine others. The assailant then killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor before police found Claudio Neves Valente, 48, dead from a self-inflicted gunshot inside a storage facility in New Hampshire.