‘I went for the gun’ – local hero recalls how he confronted Pawtucket ice rink killer

The first sound of gunfire didn’t trigger panic quite like you might imagine, Pawtucket ice rink shooting eyewitness and hero Michael Black recalls. He says there were about ten minutes left in the first period of the senior night hockey game at Lynch Arena when it happened. ‘As I was watching the game, I heard a “pop, pop”. And I thought they were balloons – I thought they were big balloons. And the noise was right in front of me. I looked, and I saw, and heard another pop, and recognised there wasn’t any balloons there...