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Family beset by COVID-19 at the center of Christmas Day murder-suicide in Windsor Locks

The motive for a Christmas Day murder-suicide in Windsor Locks remains unknown, police said, but COVID-19 figured significantly in the final days of John and Cindy Liquori.

Investigators were told that Cindy Liquori had the disease and her husband, John Liquori, may have had it as well, Windsor Locks Detective Sgt. Jeff Lampson said Monday. Cindy Liquori’s mother, Claire Palmer, was undergoing treatment for COVID-19 at a local hospital, police said.

Cindy Liquori, 55, was at Palmer’s house on Dale Street Friday when her husband, 59, shot her and then shot and killed himself, authorities said.

A state police source said Cindy Liquori, who lived with her husband in Suffield, was dog sitting while her mother was in the hospital.