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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The liberal news media is doing everything it can to make the U.S. hand Iraq over to terrorists just so that it can score political points against President Bush.
So, the answer to your question is "You betcha!"
What a scumbag. Special place in hell for someone who would kill his own child.
I read the man's faculty bio. Seems he was involved in trade treaty compliance and the economic rebuilding of Iraq.
Very sad. The man had some G2, and he does this. Checking yourself out of this vail of tears is bad enough, but taking others with you is horrible.
It seems to show how much a person can keep from family, friends, neighbors and coworkers. Or, maybe something just snapped in him on the day of the tragedy?
People in the White House read FR, so we're all Bush aides too.
Okay, that would explain a Scott Peterson (maybe) but not someone who was going to off himself anyway. He could have done that without killing the wife and kid. He was just a vengeful sick pos who wanted to hurt his poor wife by taking from her what mattered most. When this guy pulled the trigger, I'm sure he found himself in a worse predicament than having to pay child support.
Oops... meant to write "without killing the kid" not "wife and kid".
it's Bush's fault
I'm in a similar position, as regards 1/3 of my income for child support.
Gets tough sometimes. Boo hoo for me.
The 112,000th thing I'd think of involves any form of violence to my ex-wife or child.
Real men love their exes as much as they can, and their kids fully and absolutely.
This guy was a lunatic.
Expect loads of happiness about this from the lefties.
What the HELL does that mean?
I don't know. I do know that there are far to many men (and some women) who are taking this way out.
Geez, to kill your kids.
There needs to be some serious thinking on how to stop so many divorces from turning tragic.
That is the MINIMUM amount that can be taken. Part of the problem is that there is NO maximum amount. An order can exceed 100% of a persons income - before taxes are taken.
The amount is set based on the man's current earnings, and is difficult to adjust if those earnings decline.
This is one of the more common ways that the support amount becomes abusive. It is still not EVER acceptable behavior. However, we must be running close to one/day in the news these days.
I agree. Hey, what happened to all the women who come out to argue that it must have been (post partum) depression when a woman does it?
No, but truth only appears in the MSM by accident. Lies appear by design.
Another 911 shades of Columbine tragedy?
You mean... the Harpies?
Oh, my. Lord have mercy. See tag line. Unbelievable.
This is tragic. God be with his wife and mother of their only child.
Maybe it was a dispute with the wife, and the son got in the middle of it, then when the son was shot, the wife ran, thinking that her husband would come after her. He may have killed himself when he realized he'd killed his son.
Very tragic, and my prayers go out for all of them.
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