"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
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Frrom The Washington Post, 7/15/06:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/14/AR2006071400502.html

Ex-Bush Aide Fatally Shoots Son, Himself

Gunfire at McLean Home Followed Fight With Wife

By Tom Jackman and Stephanie McCrummen
Washington Post Staff Writers

Saturday, July 15, 2006; Page B01

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.

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Harry

What a horrible tragedy for his wife. How can anyone do that to his own
child? This kind of violence shows up in all levels of social strata.