Virginia State Senator Stabbed by Allegedly Insane Son

CNN
November 21, 2013

Creigh Deeds won't be winning any father of the year contests, but we assure, he is perfectly capable of running America.
Creigh Deeds won’t be winning any father of the year contests, but we assure, he is perfectly capable of running the government.

Virginia state Sen. Creigh Deeds, apparently stabbed repeatedly by his son who later killed himself, is now in good condition, a hospital spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Deeds was admitted to the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville on Tuesday in critical condition.

Deeds’ cousin found the 2009 Democratic nominee for Virginia governor walking down a road near his home Tuesday morning, bleeding from multiple stab wounds to his head and chest, state police reported.

State troopers who went to Deeds’ home in Millboro, about 150 miles west of Richmond, found the lawmaker’s son, 24-year-old Austin “Gus” Deeds, with a gunshot wound, Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said.

Troopers were unable to save him.

The Richmond Times-Dispatch newspaper, citing a mental health official, reported Tuesday that the younger Deeds had been given a mental health evaluation under an emergency custody order Monday.

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