Justin Fairfax, a former lieutenant governor of Virginia, fatally shot his wife before dying by suicide.
The couple was in the midst of a contentious divorce.
NBC News' Gary Grumbach reports that Justin and Cerina Fairfax’s teenage children were at the house at the time of the shootings and their older son called 911.
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