Democratic former Virginia Lt Governor Justin Fairfax, who served under Gov Ralph Northam from 2018 to 2022, and his wife Cerina were found dead at their home in Annandale early Thursday after an apparent murder-suicide by Justin’s hand, NoVa Campaigns reports citing police dispatch records matching Fairfax’s publicly known address but with “names withheld pending NoK.” The couple, parents to two children, had been going through a divorce that Celina had filed recently.
Fairfax came in 4th in the 2021 Dem gubernatorial primary that Terry McAuliffe lost anyway.
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