Justin Fairfax, the former Virginia lieutenant governor, shot and killed his wife before taking his own life, police said Thursday.
Fairfax spent years fighting sexual assault allegations that originated on Duke University’s campus and accused the university of rushing to judgment against him.
Both Justin and his wife, Cerina Fairfax, were Duke graduates. Their deaths bring a violent and tragic end to a story that raised difficult questions about Duke’s institutional response to sexual assault claims, questions that echo the university’s experience with the 2006 lacrosse scandal and that remain unresolved…