Chilling livestream footage captured moment shooting broke out at RI hockey game, killing 2 and injuring 3

A livestream intended to share a high school hockey team’s senior tournament for loved ones who couldn’t attend wound up capturing the terrifying moment a gunman opened fire at the match — sending players and spectators fleeing for their lives.

A shooter opened fire inside Lynch Arena in Pawtucket, Rhode Island around 2:30 p.m., killing two and injuring three others in what police are investigating as a “family dispute.”

Authorities believe the gunman took his own life, but haven’t confirmed anything, including the victims’ possible relationships, though they said he appeared to be targeting members of his own family.

He was found dead inside the arena near one of the fatal victims.

The game between two co-op teams was in full force when approximately 11 gunshots rang out, according to the harrowing livestream footage.

Students and spectators in the stands dove to the ground, but the players on the ice had nowhere to hide. None appeared to be injured as they rushed off the rink and reportedly barricaded themselves inside the locker room.

The others in the stands made a mad dash for the exit. The players trapped in the box squeezed out two at a time, with some ditching their skates in the process. Others vaulted over the barrier surrounding the rink and joined their teammates in the locker room, according to the video.

Screams echoed through the stadium as some adults could be overheard frantically relaying directions. One section of attendees near the Blackstone Valley Schools’ bench stayed in the stands.

Branden Mello, a local sports editor who was at the game, said that the gunman was sitting in the last row of the stands near the Blackstone Valley Schools’ bench before he moved down to the front and fired at people in the “second or third row.”

Mello said that another father at the game wrestled a gun out of the shooter’s hands, but they still “had a second weapon” and fired again.

Students from Coventry, Johnston, North Providence, and North Smithfield high schools were all at the arena, along with others from St. Raphael Academy and Providence Country Day School.

St. Raphael Academy, Coventry’s superintendent, and Johnston Public Schools all confirmed that their students were safe and accounted for.