Posted on 07/14/2006 9:27:43 PM PDT by woofie
Gunfire at McLean Home Followed Fight With Wife
A former Bush administration official, after arguing violently with his wife Thursday night, shot and killed his 12-year-old son inside their McLean home, then turned a shotgun on himself and committed suicide, Fairfax County police said.
William H. Lash III, 45, was an assistant secretary of commerce from 2001 until last year, then returned to teach at George Mason University Law School in Arlington, where he had begun as a professor in 1994. His wife, Sharon K. Zackula, fled the house before the shootings, and police said yesterday they were not sure what ignited the murder-suicide in a first-floor bedroom.
Friends and neighbors described Lash as devoted to his only child, William H. Lash IV, who was autistic. Will Lash had just completed sixth grade at Haycock Elementary School in the Falls Church area, Fairfax school officials said. The father and son could often be seen side by side on the swing set in their back yard, one neighbor said, and the pair often attended Washington Nationals baseball games.
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Prayers
Assistant Commerce Secretary is a presidential aide?
Oh my. How brutally tragic.
Prayers for the family.
Prayers for the innocent victims.
Only in a story like this and if the administration is Republican.
There, fixed it.
Prayers for the wife and for his son's soul.
Very sad, prayers for the wife.
Doesn't death come soon enough?
The assistant to the cousin of the hairdresser of the wife of the President's limo mechanic would qualify as a Bush aide, too.
Wow...what a shame. What a waste. Prayers.
How very strange. Especially the last part about Zackula not able to be located. The whole character evidence of this man indicates that this act is way out of the ordinary. How stange.
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Too soon for the good...
Too late for the rest...
Semper Fi
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Why did the police wait so long to go in??
Men eventually realize that there is no satisfactory exit strategy from a relationship involving children that goes bad.
Some react better than others.
Real men buck up and do what has to be done, others take this route.
"Assistant Commerce Secretary is a presidential aide?"
The AP article called him a former Commerce Department Official, but he was appointed by the Bush Administration and approved by Congress.
Prayers for the family.
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