The stabbing of Creigh Deeds

Josh Voorhees has a Slate article about a stabbing:

Police say early indications are that the son of a state senator in Virginia stabbed his father before shooting himself to death. Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corrine Geller said at a news conference that authorities are still investigating the stabbing of Senator Creigh Deeds, but it appears it was an attempted murder and suicide. Deeds' 24-year-old son, Gus, died at the home of a gunshot wound. Geller says the senator and his son were the only people at the home that morning. A hospital spokeswoman says Deeds' condition has improved to fair; he was previously listed in critical. Deeds was the Democratic candidate for governor in 2009 and lost to current Republican Governor Bob McDonnell.
According to the Washington Post: police found Gus Deeds suffering from a gunshot wound and the senator stabbed several times in the head and upper torso, Geller said. The senator had walked down the hill of his residence to a nearby highway, where he was spotted and picked up by a cousin, police said. The two drove to the cousin’s house, where a 911 call was made, police said. Deeds, who has been alert enough to talk with investigators, was flown to the University of Virginia Health System Hospital, Geller said. Back at the senator’s home, Gus Deeds could not be resuscitated and died at the scene, police said.
According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch: "Gus Deeds had been released following a mental health evaluation performed under an emergency custody order, an official said. ... Dennis Cropper, executive director of the Rockbridge County Community Services Board, told the Richmond Times-Dispatch that the emergency custody order, or ECO, allowed Gus Deeds to be held as long as four hours to determine whether he should be kept longer, up to 48 hours, under a temporary detention order."

Rico says he would've sworn there was a movie starring James Stewart called Mr. Deeds Goes to Washington, but apparently it was a movie called Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, starring Gary Cooper, though there was a movie starring James Stewart called Mr. Smith Goes to Washington...