Former Virginia Lieutenant Gov. Justin Fairfax and his wife were found dead at their home in a murder-suicide Thursday morning amid going through a “messy divorce,” police said.

The 47-year-old Democrat, who served from 2018 to 2022, killed his wife, Cerina Fairfax, before he shot himself in the early hours of Thursday, Fairfax County police said at a press conference.

The couple had been “in an ongoing domestic dispute surrounding a complicated or messy divorce,” said county police chief Kevin Davis.

Their teenage children were home at the time and their son called 911.

Davis said officers responded to the home in January after Justin Fairfax alleged his wife had assaulted him.

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