A Sea Of Red

The state senator is in emergency care at the hospital with multiple stab wounds (torso & face). His son Gus was shot an killed. Apparantly, Gus attacked his dad, who was forced to respond with lethal force. Very sad.

It is indeed a tragedy. You have to feel for a family pleading for one man's life while grieving another who clearly was battling his own demons.

Sounds like Gus shot and killed himself

We are now hearing the son died of an apparent self inflicted gunshot wound per reports from state police. http://www.wset.com/story/24009486/upda ... shot-wound

There is obviously a lot of back story here. Domestic violence is never pretty. I hope Deeds pulls through. Thankfully he's at UVA which greatly increases his outlook

Creigh Deeds is a tough son of a gun to have been stabbed like that and then walk down to the end of his driveway. Wow. Def a sad situation though.

Man. Two national news stories coming out of central VA today. Crazy.

The most frightening part of this was that Gus was evaluated at a local hospital on Monday, "but was released because no psychiatric bed could be located across a wide area of western Virginia." I think that report originated with the Richmond Times-Dispatch. It looks like he was genuinely seeking help, or someone was pushing him to get help, and nobody was proactive enough to come up with a temporary solution.