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Cerina and Justin Fairfax tragedy underscores new Va. laws that could help prevent similar violence
The new law lets family members, school administrators and mental health professionals seek emergency gun orders as Virginia broadens who can act.
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I Went to Duke With Justin Fairfax and Cerina Fairfax. Decades Later, He Killed Her
Former Virginia lieutenant governor Justin Fairfax killed his wife, Cerina, months after she filed for divorce. The news about my old friend evokes the patterns that emerge in stories that end this way—with women violated, abused, and murdered.
·United States
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Cerina and Justin Fairfax tragedy underscores new Va. laws that could help prevent similar violence
Two years before Dr. Cerina Fairfax was shot and killed by her husband, former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, she had tried to leave him. Six years before police say he fatally shot his wife and himself, Justin Fairfax had been the tie-breaking vote on state legislation that allows temporary confiscation of guns from people deemed at-risk of harming themselves or others. “This is a terribly painful irony,” Del. Rip Sullivan, D-Fairfax, said. …
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