Trill Clinton
11-19-2013, 05:12 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/19/politics/virginia-politician-attack/index.html?hpt=hp_t1#cnn-disqus-area
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Tuesday afternoon, investigators reported the evidence collected so far indicates that Deeds was stabbed during a fight with his son, Austin "Gus" Deeds, who died of a gunshot wound despite state troopers' attempts to revive him.
"Based on the evidence we have, we are looking at this as an attempted murder and suicide," Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller told reporters. No one else was in the house at the time of the altercation, and investigators are not seeking any other suspects, Geller said.
Deeds was airlifted to University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, where his condition was upgraded from critical to fair Tuesday afternoon, spokeswoman Angela Taylor said.
Geller said Deeds walked out of the house after being stabbed and was found walking along the road by a cousin who lived nearby. The senator was able to talk with investigators both before he was airlifted to the hospital and afterward, she said.
Deeds, 55, is well known in Virginia political circles. A Democrat, he ran for attorney general in 2005 and for governor in 2009, both times against Republican Bob McDonnell, who is now Virginia's governor.
His son withdrew from The College of William & Mary last month after being enrolled off-and-on since 2007, according to a statement from the school. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Tuesday that Gus Deeds had been given a mental health evaluation under an emergency custody order Monday, but was released because no psychiatric bed could be located across a wide area of western Virginia, Dennis Cropper, executive director of the Rockbridge Area Community Services Board, told the newspaper.
apparently his son was ordered to have an emergency mental evaluation but they couldn't find any psychiatric beds in that region of virginia. so we have prisons being built left and right to house millions of non violent criminals but don't have enough facilities to house this wave of people with mental health illnesses.
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Tuesday afternoon, investigators reported the evidence collected so far indicates that Deeds was stabbed during a fight with his son, Austin "Gus" Deeds, who died of a gunshot wound despite state troopers' attempts to revive him.
"Based on the evidence we have, we are looking at this as an attempted murder and suicide," Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller told reporters. No one else was in the house at the time of the altercation, and investigators are not seeking any other suspects, Geller said.
Deeds was airlifted to University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, where his condition was upgraded from critical to fair Tuesday afternoon, spokeswoman Angela Taylor said.
Geller said Deeds walked out of the house after being stabbed and was found walking along the road by a cousin who lived nearby. The senator was able to talk with investigators both before he was airlifted to the hospital and afterward, she said.
Deeds, 55, is well known in Virginia political circles. A Democrat, he ran for attorney general in 2005 and for governor in 2009, both times against Republican Bob McDonnell, who is now Virginia's governor.
His son withdrew from The College of William & Mary last month after being enrolled off-and-on since 2007, according to a statement from the school. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported Tuesday that Gus Deeds had been given a mental health evaluation under an emergency custody order Monday, but was released because no psychiatric bed could be located across a wide area of western Virginia, Dennis Cropper, executive director of the Rockbridge Area Community Services Board, told the newspaper.
apparently his son was ordered to have an emergency mental evaluation but they couldn't find any psychiatric beds in that region of virginia. so we have prisons being built left and right to house millions of non violent criminals but don't have enough facilities to house this wave of people with mental health illnesses.