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Former Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax shot and killed his wife and then himself in an overnight murder-suicide in Annandale, Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said.
Authorities were called to the 8100 block of Guinevere Drive shortly after midnight Thursday morning. When WUSA9 crews arrived, police were investigating at 8106 Guinevere Drive, which is owned by the former lieutenant governor. Davis said Fairfax shot his wife, Dr. Cerina Fairfax, several times before shooting and killing himself.
Both of the pair’s teenage children were home at the time of the murder-suicide. Their son was the one to call 911.
Justin and Dr. Cerina Fairfax were separated but living together at the home. They were in the midst of contentious divorce proceedings, where Dr. Cerina Fairfax had installed surveillance cameras around the home. He had at one point accused Dr. Cerina of assaulting him, which Davis said police were able to disprove by reviewing the camera footage.
For those in need of a reminder:
He served with a relatively low profile alongside Gov. Ralph Northam until the state was rocked by a series of political scandals in 2019 that briefly paralyzed the top levels of its government.
First, yearbook photos from Mr. Northam’s time in medical school emerged that appeared to show Mr. Northam wearing blackface. Calls erupted for Mr. Northam’s resignation. Joseph R. Biden Jr. said on social media that Mr. Northam “should resign immediately, Justin Fairfax is the leader Virginia needs now.”
But within days, two women accused Mr. Fairfax of sexually assaulting them — one in 2000 at Duke University and another in 2004 at the Democratic National Convention.
Mr. Fairfax denied the accusations, but they halted the momentum to push Mr. Northam from office. Adding to the furor, the state attorney general, the third-ranking Virginia Democrat at the time, acknowledged that he had also worn blackface in college. In the end, all three completed their terms in office.
As with Swalwell, it takes a lot of courage to step up and make a sexual assault accusation… but in this case I think everyone can be glad that they did.
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