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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Another article spoke to an assignment he had to come to some understanding with drug companies in Israel re patents and generic drugs and standards. It demonstrated the confidence that we (US government) had in his ability to negotiate,clarify and deal with very complex issues. Whatever happened to cause him to kill himself and the child,it is just tragic and we should pray for them as well as his wife.
Although I hadn't even heard of him until this sad event,he is the fifth death this month that seems imponderable. The others were all deaths out of time,so to speak. A friend of mines brother's wife was killed in a jet ski accident,her young son ran into her on another ski and she was killed. Think of a young son killing the mother he loved.
A young mother of six or seven,who had written a beautiful book on the development of a baby from conception,through birth,to a couple of weeks out of the womb,ran over her four year old in the church parking lot,he died. Every parents nightmare becomes reality.
The chairman of group collecting petitions to place a "marriage between a male and female" on the ballot was killed in a one car accident the day before the group was to submit the petition to the state. The victory celebration for the intermediate goal accomplished was instead a time to mourn her death.
And finally,a relatively young president of a regional religious order died less than two months after being diagnosed with cancer. She had been young and vital. Another nun told me that one of the other "sisters" had said "I wonder if this is some kind of a message?" Looking at all of this is like a microcosm of the state of the world and I too wonder if we are getting some kind of a message from the One who loves us all and wishes we would choose Him?
That is one of the most poignant statements I've read in a long time. Soon enough, indeed.
ITS THE TRUTH. Everytime a Republican commits a crime or gets arrested, the lefty boards post it a thousand times and say they are representative of all Republicans.
Conservatives that try to "fight the good fight" alone, without the help of God, seem to eventually succumb to bad luck and evil. It's almost as if Satan puts in a special appearance just for them, and they have no armor to put on in defense.
AMC has been showing View From the Terrace: the scene where Paul Newman's character, Alfred, engaged his dad at the dad's request only to be informed that he was neglected by a simple and inexplicable passion on his father's part for his sickly first-born son, Billy, was the work of fiction in days past; now we see fiction as reality and we wonder who to blame.
Sadly, the article's headline already expresses a level of glee: "Ex-Bush Aide" was an absolutely unnecessary and spiteful choice of words.
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