Former Virginia lieutenant governor Justin Fairfax fatally shot his wife before taking his own life in what police say was the culmination of an increasingly bitter divorce dispute that had been unfolding behind closed doors, far from the public spotlight that once surrounded him.
Fairfax County police said Justin Fairfax, 47, and his wife, Cerina Fairfax, were found dead inside their Annandale home shortly after midnight on 16 April, in what investigators believe was a murder-suicide. Authorities said the couple's two teenage children were inside the property at the time, with one of them placing the emergency call.
