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DAVID, WHAT CAN YOU SEE? BEN I’VE NOW BEEN SENT A LONGER VERSION OF THE VIDEO THAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT EARLIER. AGAIN, THIS IS NOT VIDEO THAT WE CAN SHARE ON TV AT THIS POINT, BUT I CAN TELL YOU, I CAN DESCRIBE IT. THE GAME IS GOING ON. THERE ARE GUNSHOTS THAT ARE HEARD, THE PLAYERS AND THE BENCHES START CLIMBING OVER ONE ANOTHER. THEN SOME OF THEM START TO RUN FOR THE EXITS. A BUNCH OF THEM JUMP OUT ONTO THE ICE RINK AND SKATE ACROSS TO THE OTHER SIDE, AND THEN THE CAMERA PANS OVER TO SOME STANDS WHERE APPARENTLY SOME PARENTS OR FAMILIES ARE. SPECTATORS WERE WERE GATHERED WATCHING IT, AND THAT THERE’S SOME ACTIVITY OVER THERE THAT SUGGESTS THAT THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN WHERE THE SHOOTING TOOK PLACE. IT’S NOT EXACTLY CLEAR. YOU CAN’T SEE THE SHOOTER IN THIS VIDEO, BUT YOU CAN CERTAINLY SEE THE REACTION. AND YOU GET A SENSE OF OF HOW TERRIFYING IT MUST HAVE BEEN INSIDE THAT ARENA. OUTSIDE THE ARENA, WE SAW AN ATF AGENT ARRIVE A SHORT TIME AGO TO JOIN THE OTHER LAW ENFORCEMENT THAT HAS GATHERED AROUND HERE. PEOPLE HAVE SLOWLY BEEN LEAVING THE SCENE UNDER POLICE ESCORT. AT THIS POINT, WE HAVE
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Hockey players raced across ice after shots fired in Rhode Island rink
Video reviewed by sister station WCVB shows hockey players rushing across the ice or out into the stands after shots were fired inside a Rhode Island ice rink. David Bienick, with Boston sister station WCVB, reviewed a copy of the video. “This is not video that we can share on TV at this point, but I can tell you, I can describe it,” Bienick said. “The game is going on. There are gunshots that are heard. The players clear the benches, start climbing over one another, and then some of them start to run for the exits.”Several players from both teams jump out onto the ice and skate across to the far side. The shooting happened at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena on Andrew D. Ferland Way in Pawtucket, just before 3 p.m. Monday.A high school hockey game was scheduled at the arena for 2 p.m.
Video reviewed by sister station WCVB shows hockey players rushing across the ice or out into the stands after shots were fired inside a Rhode Island ice rink.
David Bienick, with Boston sister station WCVB, reviewed a copy of the video.
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“This is not video that we can share on TV at this point, but I can tell you, I can describe it,” Bienick said. “The game is going on. There are gunshots that are heard. The players clear the benches, start climbing over one another, and then some of them start to run for the exits.”
Several players from both teams jump out onto the ice and skate across to the far side.
The shooting happened at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena on Andrew D. Ferland Way in Pawtucket, just before 3 p.m. Monday.
A high school hockey game was scheduled at the arena for 2 p.m.
