By Gary Robertson
RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) - A Virginia state senator was stabbed and seriously wounded at his home on Tuesday, and police said they were investigating whether the senator's son may have carried out the attack before committing suicide.
Creigh Deeds, a 55-year-old Democrat who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2009, was flown to the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville with stab wounds to his head and upper body, Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said.
His 24-year-old son, Austin "Gus" Deeds, was alive at the home in Millboro, about 100 miles west of Richmond, when police arrived, Geller said, but died at the scene of a gunshot wound.
"We're still looking into and leaning towards it being an attempted murder-suicide. But at this time, it's not concrete," Geller told a televised news conference, adding that police had recovered a firearm.
Only Deeds and his son were at the Bath County home at the time of the incident, though the senator's wife lives there as well, Geller said.
