Justin Fairfax, a once-prominent Democratic politician in the US state of Virginia, shot and killed his wife before turning the gun on himself at their home in Annandale, a Washington D.C. suburb, police say. Fairfax (47) shot his wife Cerina, a dentist aged 49, in the basement of the home before shooting himself upstairs; the couple's two teenage children were present and their son called emergency services. The former lieutenant governor of Virginia (the second-highest elected office in the state) had seen his political career collapse following sexual assault allegations in 2019, and court documents indicate he had since struggled with alcohol abuse, financial difficulties, and social isolation — with a judge having recently ordered him to vacate the family home amid divorce proceedings by the end of April.