Virginia investigator quits over probe of death of senator's son

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Virginia investigator quits over probe of death of senator's son

By Gary Robertson RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) - A senior Virginia state investigator has resigned his post, citing changes that officials made to his report on a November incident in which the mentally ill adult son of state Senator Creigh Deeds stabbed the senator and later shot and killed himself. On Saturday, Douglas Bevelacqua resigned as Virginia's director of the inspector general for behavioral health and developmental services. In a letter to Governor Terry McAuliffe, Bevelacqua said revisions in his report on the death of Austin "Gus" Deeds "will diminish the report's usefulness as policy makers consider changes to the Commonwealth's emergency services response system." Among the revisions to his final report on the incident, Bevelacqua said officials struck a section in which the senator said the state had "failed" his son. That change weakened his review of Virginia's system of responding to people with mental health problems, Bevelacqua said.

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