WASHINGTON: Former Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax fatally shot his wife before killing himself in their northern Virginia home shortly after midnight, local law enforcement officials said on Thursday.
The murder-suicide seemed to stem from a domestic dispute related to the couple’s ongoing divorce, Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis told reporters hours afterward. The couple’s teenage children were home at the time of the shootings.
The former lieutenant governor and one-time rising star in the Democratic Party was “recently served some paperwork associated with an upcoming court proceeding (and) that apparently led to this incident,” Davis said.
