State Sen. Creigh Deeds was stabbed multiple times on his upper torso and head in an attack at his home in Millboro in Bath County Tuesday morning.
His son, Gus, 24, also of Millboro, is dead of injuries from a gunshot wound in the same incident.
“Investigators are working now on confirming the motive and actual sequence of events that took place at the residence this morning,” said Corinne Geller, a Virginia State Police spokesperson. “There is still a great deal of work to be done. These things take time, and we will follow up with more details once we are at that stage.”
The Times-Dispatch in Richmond is reporting that Gus Deeds was given a mental-health evaluation at Bath Community Hospital on Monday under an emergency-custody order, but was released later in the day because no psychiatric bed could be found for longer-term care across a wide swath of Western Virginia.
After the stabbing, Sen. Deeds left the scene on foot and walked down the hill of his residence to Route 42, where he was spotted and picked up by a cousin who was driving along Route 42. The two drove to the cousin’s residence, where the 911 call was placed to the sheriff’s office.
Deeds was transported by ambulance to a nearby relative’s farm to a medevac helicopter and was flown to UVa. Hospital for treatment of serious injuries. The senator is still at the hospital at this time.
Gus Deeds was found inside the residence suffering from life-threatening injuries associated with a gunshot wound. Despite efforts by troopers and other first responders, he died at the scene.
The investigation into the incident remains ongoing at this time by the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation’s Salem Field Office with the assistance of the Bath County Sheriff’s Office.
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