{"id":71910,"date":"2026-04-16T11:55:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/justin-fairfax-ex-lieutenant-governor-of-virginia-kills-wife-and-himself\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:55:30","slug":"justin-fairfax-ex-lieutenant-governor-of-virginia-kills-wife-and-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/justin-fairfax-ex-lieutenant-governor-of-virginia-kills-wife-and-himself\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Fairfax, ex-lieutenant governor of Virginia, kills wife and himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say the couple\u2019s teenage children called 911 after a domestic dispute at their Annandale home during divorce<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Justin Fairfax, a former lieutenant governor of Virginia whose tenure was upended by allegations of sexual assault, shot and killed his wife Cerina Fairfax on Thursday before killing himself, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Davis, the chief of the Fairfax county police department in Virginia, said at a press conference that the murder-suicide took place in the context of \u201can ongoing domestic dispute surrounding what seems to be a complicated or messy divorce\u201d. The shooting took place at the Fairfaxes residence in Annandale, Virginia, and police arrived on the scene after receiving a 911 call from one of their teenage children shortly after midnight.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/16\/justin-fairfax-murder-suicide-virginia-lt-governor\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police say the couple\u2019s teenage children called 911 after a domestic dispute at their Annandale home during divorce Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Justin Fairfax, a former lieutenant governor of Virginia whose tenure was upended by allegations of sexual assault, shot and killed his wife &#8230; <a title=\"Justin Fairfax, ex-lieutenant governor of Virginia, kills wife and himself\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/justin-fairfax-ex-lieutenant-governor-of-virginia-kills-wife-and-himself\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Justin Fairfax, ex-lieutenant governor of Virginia, kills wife and himself\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}