Virginia Ex-Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax Kills Wife and Self, Police Say

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Justin Fairfax, a former lieutenant governor of Virginia, and his wife, Cerina Fairfax, were found dead in a murder-suicide at their home in Annandale, Va., shortly after midnight on Thursday, according to the county police.

The Fairfax County police chief said that Mr. Fairfax, 47, shot his wife and then himself. Their teenage children were home at the time, the police chief said.

Mr. Fairfax, a Democrat, served as the lieutenant governor from 2018 to 2022. He was accused of sexual assault by two women in 2019, prompting calls for his resignation. Mr. Fairfax denied the allegations and finished his term. He then ran unsuccessfully for governor, losing in the primary to the former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe in 2021.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/us/virginia-lt-governor-justin-fairfax-murder-wife-suicide.html

Horrifying news out of Virginia

— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) 2026-04-16T13:13:17.645Z

[walkingman]

1. Sad news. Domestic issues are so volatile.

[hlthe2b]

2. "Two teenage children at home at the time..." Additive cruelty... So sickening...

May they be surrounded by those who can help them deal with this.

[In It to Win It]

3. Wow. Very sad 😢

[EdmondDantes_]

4. I hope their kids and other family and friends find healing

We as men need to do better

[nitpicked]

5. From AP

https://apnews.com/article/virginia-justin-fairfax-death-e10bd0f6327852933e15c8d9af559cd3

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Both were found dead at their northern Virginia home in Annandale after the couple’s teenage son called 911 shortly after midnight, said Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis.

The couple was going through a divorce, and Fairfax was served recently with paperwork that indicated when he was next to appear in court, Davis said.
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Vanessa Tyson said Fairfax — at the time a Columbia Law School student serving as an aide to Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards — forced her to perform oral sex in his hotel room during the Democratic National Convention in Boston in 2004. Two days after Tyson’s statement, Meredith Watson issued her own, accusing Fairfax of raping her in 2000, when they were students at Duke University.

Fairfax said the encounters were consensual and refused calls to resign.
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[MustLoveBeagles]

6. That's sad

I feel badly for their children 😔

[intheflow]

7. Jesus, I assumed this guy was a Repuke gunhumper.

Now he’ll be held up by MAGA as proof positive that all Black men are dangerous thugs. Grrr.

Their poor kids.