The daughter of crazed transgender killer Robert Dorgan has claimed her dad’s ice hockey arena attack was fueled by a vendetta against his family – before revealing she feared her sons would be caught up in his heartless rampage.
“I just want to make sure people understand this was one person’s vendetta against their family,” Amanda Wallace-Hubbard told WPRI Tuesday. “We were targeted. This was very specific. It wasn’t random.”
Dorgan was armed with a Glock 10mm and SIG Sauer P226 weapon as he sadistically went about his rampage during a high school hockey game at Rhode Island’s Dennis M. Lynch Arena, where he killed his adult son, Aidan, and his ex-wife, Rhonda.
A Good Samaritan stopped Dorgan in his tracks and Wallace-Hubbard — who is the shooter’s daughter from another relationship — feared her family would be shot next if the hero didn’t intervene.
“Until that good Samaritan incapacitated him, I really feared that my sons were next,” she said. “I can’t thank him enough. I’m certain my sons and I are alive because of him.”
Bystander Michael Black said he heard two noises, similar to that of balloons popping, before he jumped into action.
“I just grabbed, went for the gun and I got my hand caught,” he told WCVB.
But Black’s left hand was stuck in the weapon’s chamber, which meant the shooter couldn’t fire it again.
Dorgan’s son, Colin, was playing in the game on the rink when chaos erupted in the bleachers.
The shooter, who underwent gender reassignment surgery in 2020, was described as “very sick” by an unidentified woman who said she was his daughter.
“He shot my family, and he’s dead now,” she said.
After Dorgan was identified as the shooter, it emerged that his X account was peppered with hate-fueled context and in one post, he threatened to go “beserk.”
He lashed out at an X user labeling transgender Democratic lawmaker Sarah McBride a man.
“Keep bashing us. But do not wonder why we Go BERSERK,” Dorgan wrote in the chilling post.
Dorgan was embroiled in a bitter divorce battle in the years leading up to Monday’s horror.
Rhonda Dorgan filed for divorce in 2020 and initially cited “gender reassignment surgery, narcissistic and personality disorder traits,” as the reason for the filing, according to court papers first seen by WPRI.
She then changed the reason, claiming it was due to “irreconcilable differences.” They had been married for almost 30 years at the time of the divorce filing.
Dorgan’s former co-workers at a Maine shipbuilding facility claimed he had a bad temper and sometimes had screaming matches with others.
One claimed Dorgan had mixed feelings over his transition. They said he could be proud at one particular time, and embarrassed the next.
Rhonda Dorgan’s parents, Linda and Gerald, were critically injured, as was family friend Thomas Geruso, according to Pawtucket Chief of Police Tina Goncalves.
The shooting unfolded at a Senior Night game and Pawtucket Mayor Don Grebien said the occasion was “marked by violence and fear.”
Cops are still reviewing surveillance video from the game and have already spoken to more than 1000 witnesses.
The Rhode Island shooting came less than a week after transgender gunperson, Jesse Van Rootselaar, killed a female teacher and five students at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in Canada.
With Post wires.
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