Virginia State Senator Creigh Deeds waits to take the podium to speak about mental health reform at The National Press Club in Washington, DC on March 31, 2014. On November 19, 2013, Deeds was stabbed multiple times in the face at his home in Bath County, Virginia by his 24-year-old son Gus Deeds, who later died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. By Drew Angerer/Getty Images.