India, April 16 -- Former Virginia lieutenant governor Justin Fairfax shot and killed his estranged wife before taking his own life inside their home in Annandale, in what police describe as a suspected murder-suicide amid an ongoing and "messy" divorce.

According to New York Post, Fairfax, 47, fatally shot Cerina Fairfax multiple times in the basement of their residence shortly after midnight, before turning the gun on himself elsewhere in the house.

Fairfax County Police Chief Kevin Davis confirmed the sequence of events, adding that the couple's two teenage children were inside the home at the time. Their son called 911 to report the shooting.

"It is high-profile in nature, it's tragic in nature," Davis told reporters, as quoted by ...