A local judge expressed concern for former Virginia Democratic Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax regarding his state of mind just days before he killed his wife and himself in an apparent murder-suicide.
Police discovered Justin, 47, and his wife, Cerina, 49, both dead, on Thursday, with a preliminary investigation finding that Justin shot his wife before turning the gun on himself.
The former elected official allegedly killed his estranged wife just days before an April 21 hearing for their divorce case, and just two weeks before an April 30 deadline for him to move out of the house, WTOP-TV reported.
Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Timothy J. McEvoy, who oversaw the divorce case, noted Justin’s recent mental decline, writing that his “isolation, drinking, and lack of participation in family life are manifestations of what seems to be a sense of fatalism and hopelessness.”
In addition, McEvoy wrote that there was no
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