The violent drama couldn’t have been more obvious. The solutions to curb it, much less so.
An hour before a divorce court hearing last week, Hartford lawyer Nancy Tyler was kidnapped from her law firm’s CityPlace garage and held hostage at gunpoint in her South Windsor home all day while her ex-husband, advertising executive Richard Shenkman, issued bizarre demands, threatening murder, suicide and death to the police. Miraculously, Tyler, 57, freed herself and escaped at dusk. Shenkman continued the standoff, set fire to the family home, and when the heat drove him out, police disarmed him with non-lethal rounds.
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