{"id":370578,"date":"2026-02-17T13:13:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=370578"},"modified":"2026-02-17T13:13:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:13:06","slug":"three-killed-in-shooting-at-rhode-island-high-school-hockey-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=370578","title":{"rendered":"Three Killed in Shooting at Rhode Island High School Hockey Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The shooting happened around 2:30 p.m. Monday at Dennis M. Lynch Arena during a game between Coventry-Johnston and St. Raphael-Providence co-op teams. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police Chief Tina Goncalves called it a targeted event possibly tied to a family dispute; the suspected gunman died from a self-inflicted wound, with three others hospitalised in critical condition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video aligncenter\"><video height=\"270\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 480 \/ 270;\" width=\"480\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/pvgzttMRbi5uw6uK.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>All players were accounted for safely, high school games statewide were suspended, and leaders like Governor Dan McKee offered mental health support while the FBI assists the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police Chief Tina Goncalves called it a targeted event possibly tied to a family dispute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":370580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,8454],"tags":[19611,11],"class_list":["post-370578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-shooting","tag-rhode-island","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=370578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370581,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370578\/revisions\/370581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/370580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=370578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=370578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=370578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}