Rhode Island Shooter Revealed To Be Divorced Transgender With Bizarre Online Footprint

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The transgender gunman who killed his ex-wife and son at a Rhode Island hockey game on Monday left behind social media posts warning that gender-confused people like him could one day go “berserk.”

Police identified Robert Dorgan, who they say went by “Roberta,” as the man who opened fire at the Pawtucket high school game before killing himself, according to multiple reports. Dorgan’s online posts as “Roberta Dorgano” reveal his apparent interests in racist ideology, pornography and grievances about society’s treatment of transgender people, the Daily Caller News Foundation found.

Dorgan’s household endured multiple disputes over his self-declared gender, including his ex-wife’s 2021 divorce, which she described as being for “gender reassignment surgery, narcissistic + personality disorder traits,” WPRI reported.

“Keep bashing us,” Dorgan wrote on X a day before the shooting, responding to someone who called transgender Democratic Rep. Sarah McBride of Delaware a man. “but do not wonder why we Go BERSERK.”

Police reportedly said Dorgan’s gunfire injured three others besides the deceased.

Dorgan expressed support for anti-Semitic provocateur Nick Fuentes in the months leading up to the shooting, even calling him “super hot.” He also commented “WP,” a slogan typically meaning “white power,” in response to a video of people making Nazi salutes.

However, Dorgan insisted that transgender people believed in protecting children in an August 2025 post responding to news of a transgender mass shooter at a Minnesota church.

“some trans [people] would defend kids with their last breath,” he wrote.