Deranged transgender gunman Robert Dorgan was cousins with his ex-wife, Rhonda Dorgan, whom he gunned down along with their son at a high school hockey game.
The twisted relationship emerged after records showed the killer had the same name as his murdered ex and her parents, who were also seriously injured in his rampage Monday, according to the Providence Journal.
A deep dive then showed that he and Rhonda were first cousins once removed when they tied the knot in 1992.
Robert Dorgan (left) posing with his son Aidan and wife Rhonda, his first cousin once removed, in an undated Facebook photo.Facebook/Roberta Esposito
Dorgan had deliberately targeted his family at the high school hockey game in Pawtucket on Monday, killing Rhonda, their son, Aidan, and leaving her parents, Gerald and Linda Dorgan, fighting for their lives.
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At first, the reason for the shooter having the same last name as his ex-wife’s parents was not immediately clear, but the outlet delved into their family tree via the 1950 Census.
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Edward Dorgan and his wife, Eva Dorgan, lived in Smithfield, Rhode Island, at the time with their two sons, Raymond Dorgan and Robert J. Dorgan.
Robert J. Dorgan was the father of the trans shooter Robert Dorgan, and Raymond Dorgan fathered Gerald Dorgan, who was a victim in the shooting and remains in critical condition with his wife, Linda.
Rhonda married Robert and divorced him in 2021.Facebook/Bob Dorgan
Gerald and Linda were the parents of Rhonda Dorgan, who would marry the Robert Dorgan would go on to massacre his family before turning the gun on himself.
They divorced in 2021 because of the musclebound, Nazi-loving trans shipyard worker’s craziness.
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According to the outlet, what this means is that Edward Dorgan is the killer’s grandfather and the great-grandfather of his murdered wife, making Rhonda and Robert Dorgan first cousins once removed.
Rhode Island is one of about 20 US states that legally permits first cousins to marry, but the Ocean State is one of a small handful of states that allows avunculate marriage — between uncle and niece or aunt and nephew — under certain religious or cultural circumstances.
Dorgan gunned down several members of his own family during a high school hockey game, killing his ex-wife Rhonda and their son Aidan before turning a gun on himself.
Dorgan had six kids by three different women, three of them with Rhonda: Aidan, 23, who was pursuing an engineering degree, Ava, 20, a nursing student, and Colin, 17, who was playing the night of the attack.
His divorce from Rhonda, finalized in 2021, was initiated by her due to Robert’s gender reassignment surgery and “narcissistic + personality disorder traits,” court documents reveal.
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However that reasoning was crossed out at an unknown later time and replaced with “irreconcilable differences.”
Amanda Wallace-Hubbard, 38, one of his daughters from a previous marriage, told The Post that her troubled father had “struggled with demons” his entire life and became alienated from much of the family due to his at times erratic behavior.
The 1950 Census held clues that led to the revelation that the Dorgans were related.Facebook/Rhonda Dorgan
She had been at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena during the shooting and locked eyes with her estranged father after the bullets started flying.
She said she was convinced she and her two young sons would be the next to be shot.
Dorgan had a disturbing “SS” Nazi tattoo on his right bicep, featuring a skull-and-bones “death’s head” logo also associated with the Third Reich.
He described himself on social media as “to the right of Adolf Hitler” and frequently praised and shared Nazi-related content online.
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He is not the only member of his family with such a disturbing past.
One of his sons by a previous marriage, Kevin Colantonio, 37, is currently serving a seven-year sentence in a Texas federal prison for setting a series of fires at a predominantly black church in 2024, WPRI reported.
Locals close to the family told the outlet that Dorgan influenced Colantonio’s twisted race obsession.
