Diana Tirado, 46, of New Britain, was killed in a double shooting on Magnolia Street in Hartford on the evening of June 17, 2026. Police say officers responded around 7 p.m. after ShotSpotter detected gunfire and found Tirado unresponsive in the driver’s seat of a parked vehicle with multiple gunshot wounds; she was pronounced dead at the scene. A woman in her 30s was found on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound and taken to a hospital in stable condition.

An 11-year-old girl related to Tirado reportedly witnessed the shooting from another parked car; she was not physically injured, and investigators added a risk-of-injury charge tied to the child’s presence. Authorities described the incident as domestic violence-related and identified Chad Petitpas of Uncasville as the suspected shooter. Detectives traced him to a Holyoke, Massachusetts, hotel where he died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound during a standoff, ending the manhunt and preventing any criminal trial on the warrants that had been prepared.

Petitpas had prior convictions and was listed on Connecticut’s sex offender registry after a 2007 case; he had been released from prison in June 2022. Tirado’s family has been left to cope with both the loss and the trauma of a child witness. Did anyone in Hartford see or hear anything on Magnolia Street that evening?