A prominent Connecticut divorce lawyer had fatally shot his wife then himself on Christmas Day after learning that she had the coronavirus and that he might be infected as well, police said.
John Liquori, 59, gunned down his wife Cindy Liquori, 55, while she slept at her mom’s home during the latter’s stay at a hospital where she was being treated from Covid.
Cindy was dog-sitting her mom’s pets when John called her brother and told him to come over and retrieve the dogs that Cindy could no more take care of.
When the brother arrived at his mom’s home at around 6 p.m., he discovered the lawyer’s body next to that of his sister with apparent gunshot wounds and a revolver at the scene.
John Liquori owned an office in Suffield and worked as a family court lawyer for over 30 years. Colleague David Kelly described him as “someone who understood the law and how to practice it.”
“Divorce work is a brutal business under the best of circumstances,” he said adding that the couple was “wonderful people” and that their deaths were “a shock.”
Cindy Liquori was the owner of Cindy’s Soap Cottage in East Windsor. Her business thrived during the months of the pandemic, she told a local reporter, selling more than 8,000 hand sanitizers and 16,000 masks at the time.
