04/17/2026
This photo in the TMZ article was taken in October 2017 — Domestic Violence Awareness Month — at a rally in front of the NRA in Fairfax, Virginia. There’s William and me, standing next to then-Virginia Lt. Governor Justin Fairfax. Will was a kid. That sign he made with his own hands says Disarm Abusers.
Years later, Justin Fairfax goes and shoots and kills his wife, Cerina, while their children were home.
Let that sink in.
This is NOT a surprise. It is never a surprise — not to survivors, not to those of us who have spent years screaming about this. These men do not snap. They do not “just lose it.” They escalate. They control. They terrorize. And they show you exactly who they are long before they pull the trigger. The people around them know and the systems around them know. And they choose, over and over again, to look the other way until a woman and mother is dead.
A politician stood in front of the NRA, smiled for a camera, and held my son’s handmade sign calling for abusers to be disarmed. That same man became the abuser we were standing there to fight.
I have been telling this story for years. Tons of survivors have. And women keep dying.
So no, I am not shocked. I am furious. I am furious for Cerina. I am furious for her children, who will carry this for the rest of their lives. And I am furious that it will take another woman’s death before anyone pays attention again, of course until it doesn’t trend anymore and we all move on.
But we shouldn’t get to move on. She didn’t. Her children don’t.
Believe her. Believe women. And for the love of f**k — disarm abusers.
Former Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax rallied around gun regulation -- and even proudly held up a "disarm abusers" sign -- years before he shot his wife, and then himself, in an apparent murder-suicide ... TMZ has learned.
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