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Holyoke Budget Inn Standoff Hartford Homicide: How Two States, One Motel, and Eight Hours of Fear Became a Wrongful Death Case If you are reading this because Diana Tirado was your mother, your sister, your friend, or someone you are trying to help, you are not in a position anyone can prepare you for. One night she was sitting in a parked car on Magnolia Street in Hartford, Connecticut, when a man pulled up in another vehicle and opened fire. She suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene. A second woman, in her thirties, was hit on the sidewalk and survived - she is in stable condition but the medical record and the emotional record are two different things, and the second one will last longer. The shooter fled. Within hours, police tracked him to a Budget Inn on Route 5 in Holyoke, Massachusetts, where he locked himself in Room 2 with a woman who had rented the room for him at 2 a.m. From roughly 7 a.m. until almost 5 p.m., police tried to talk him out. At some point during those eight hours he said he was “just going to start shooting people.” Then he shot himself in the bathroom. The state medical examiner removed his body. His car was towed. Route 5 between Mountain Park Road and the Easthampton city line reopened. And a family on one side of the Connecticut-Massachusetts line began to grieve a 46-year-old woman from New Britain, while a…