Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Kills Wife and Himself in Murder-Suicide: Police

Officials said that Fairfax and his wife, Cerina Fairfax, were married for 20 years but were separated and still living together at the time of the incident.

Former Virginia lieutenant governor kills wife, shoots himself, police say.

Authorities said on April 16 that former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax killed his wife and then himself in a murder-suicide incident in Fairfax County, Virginia.

“This has been an ongoing domestic dispute surrounding what seems to be a complicated or messy divorce,” Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis said in a news conference on Thursday morning.