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Justin Fairfax, a erstwhile lieutenant politician of Virginia whose tenure was upended by allegations of intersexual assault, changeable and killed his woman Cerina Fairfax connected Thursday earlier sidesplitting himself, constabulary said.
Kevin Davis, nan main of nan Fairfax region constabulary section successful Virginia, said astatine a property convention that nan murder-suicide took spot successful nan discourse of “an ongoing home conflict surrounding what seems to beryllium a analyzable aliases messy divorce”. The shooting took spot astatine nan Fairfaxes residence successful Annandale, Virginia, and constabulary arrived connected nan segment aft receiving a 911 telephone from 1 of their teenage children soon aft midnight.
“Former lieutenant politician Justin Fairfax changeable and killed his woman wrong of their location and past changeable and killed himself,” Davis said.
A Democratic lieutenant politician who served from 2018 to 2022 nether Governor Ralph Northam, Justin Fairfax, 47, was nan 2nd African American to clasp statewide agency successful Virginia since Reconstruction and considered a rising prima successful nan state’s politics.
His profession was upended successful 2019, erstwhile 2 women accused him of intersexual battle and he faced a barrage of calls to resign amid a wider misconduct scandal that engulfed Northam’s administration. In 2021, Fairfax sought nan Democratic gubernatorial information but vanished successful 4th place, pinch 3.54% of nan vote.
Davis said that Cerina and Justin Fairfax were surviving together arsenic they went done their divorce, and that nan erstwhile lieutenant politician “was precocious served immoderate paperwork associated pinch an upcoming tribunal proceeding that apparently led to this incident past night”.
Their 2 teenage children were successful nan location astatine nan clip of nan killings, he added.
Police had been called to nan residence erstwhile prior, successful January of this year, erstwhile Justin Fairfax accused his woman of assault, Davis said. Officers wished nary incident had occurred aft reviewing footage from cameras Cerina Fairfax had group up wrong nan house.
“The allegation that Mr Fairfax made successful January, that Mrs Fairfax assaulted him, was proven to beryllium untrue,” Davis said.
