shauna didn't really have to work. >> reporter: shauna and her husband, clarence washington, lived in this simple culpeper home. he worked during the day as a factory foreman. at night he cleaned schools. she was taking online classes and raising their three daughters, owe livya, onya and omesha. inside their home relatives tell me things were far from perfect. there were signs of violence. shauna recently told family members she wanted to leave clarence. >> there was a domestic situation between the husband and wife. our investigation up to this point would lead us to believe that the crime was committed by one of the adults. right now that focus is mainly on mr. washington himself. >> reporter: after not hearing from the family since saturday, shauna's mom and a family member came to the house last night. the doors were bolted locked. they went through a window and found all five shot to death. the gun still inside a murder-suicide the sheriff tells me. >> my cousin was like a sister to me. she just lost her sister four years ago. her mom not only has to prepare herself again for an

shauna quit college.ed in ways that i can't even imagine. >> we found out that the district attorney had guaranteed thayne smika would not be indicted by the grand jury. to this day, my family doesn't know why the d.a. made that deal with thayne smika. >> cops are powerless unless there's an indictment, unless that d.a.'s office says go arrest this guy, so cops can knock on the d.a.'s door every day and say we have the perpetrator, he's going to run, if you don't let us arrest him, he's going to run. >> the next thing we hear about thayne smika is a few years later, we get a call from the denver d.a.'s office. what we learned was that mr. smika eventually made his way to denver, that he had gone to work for a construction company as a bookkeeper. he had written unauthorized checks to himself and that missing money had been discovered and the denver d.a.'s office was able to get an arrest warrant for mr. smika. >> shortly after that arrest warrant was issued, that's pretty much the last we've heard of thay

it -- it shows some heart. >> after the family did not show up for church, shauna washington's motherove by the home and made the unthinkable discovery. beenive family members had shot to death, including the couple's three daughters. >> you never know who people really are. >> culpeper investigators believe it was a murder suicide and clarence washington killed himself after shooting his wife and children. >> i came out to pay respects to her and the family, and to show that they meant a lot to a lot of people. >> what we have heard over and over is that from the outside the family seemed happy. i community events. the parents were hard-working and the daughters popular at school. some say this is a wake-up call. >> it is important to engage in one another's lives. to be a real community is to be in each other's lives. closed for 96ub hours after a stabbing has now lost its liquor license. an actor was stabbed during a fight there a week ago. d.c. police chief cathy lanier said club security had interfered with the police after the attack. the alcoholic beverage control board voted t

on sunday morning they didn't show up for asght shauna's moth grandmother of the three kids, along with a family friend decided to check on the family. around 10:00 they showed up at the house. doors were bolted locked. she went in there a window, found all five family members shot to death. the gun used also found inside the house, according to the sheriff. >> there's been a domestic situation between the husband and wife. our investigation up to this point would lead us to believe that the crime was committed by one of the adults. right now that focuses mainly on mr. washington himself. >> such a violent end to those young lives. it's leaving family members with a lot of questions tonight. the biggest, just why did this happen? we are just beginning our coverage in culpeper tonight. we're piecing together the timeline for you. how things added up to where we are now. we'll introduce you to a family member who is extremely close to the situation. she will explain some of the stresses she thinks might have contributed to what folks here are calling a tragic situation. we'll bring you up

. >>> country music stars shauna and kiefer thompson made up thompson square., music is more than a passion, it's also part of their mission to create brighter futures for children around the world. we have the story in today's "impact your world." . >> reporter: behind the music thompson square is raising their voice toss give kids around the world a chance to do the same. >> it's been more rewarding for is than they understand. >> shauna and kiefer thompson joined forces with child fund interthashl, a charity that works with global communities. >> when you sponsor a child, it doesn't just go to that family. it's a collective. it goes to that community. >> the fact that we don't have kids yet, maybe that is a part of it. we wanting to be a part of some children's lives. >> the husband and wife team sponsored two kids. one is a little boy named emerson in honduras. on their first trip to meet them -- >> there's no bathrooms, no plumbing, no water, no nothing. >> reporter: it inspired them to re-create "glass" featuring children as the stars. ♪ we are fragile ♪

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the other victims were identified as shauna washington, 35, and their daughters omesha, 13, onya, 6,olivia, 4. >> the star witness in the bob mcdonnell trial of the former governor. jonnie williams denied a romantic relationship with maureen mcdonnell. the mcdonnells were accused of accepting loans and gifts from williams in exchange for promoting his company. >> family friends and former colleagues are remembering james brady, the former white house press secretary died today at the age of 73. brady was partially paralyzed on a assassination attempt on ropresident reagan in 1981. >> a man posing as a taxi driver to take advantage of drunken passengers. prosecutors say that he would often dressed in a wig. they would say that nevada would offer them a -- nyerere mitchell would offer them a ride. he will have to pay restitution on top of doing jail time. >> let's get a check and see how things are shaping from -- up for the commute on this is monday evening. >> certainly plenty of volume on the beltway. on the inner loop is where the volume is heading out of tysons trying to get out o

still not clear as police try to piece together what they believe was a murder suicide. 35-year-old shauna washington and her husband clarence and their three daughters were found dead last night on their small home here on rixeyville road in culpeper. mrs. washington's mother had come here when she couldn't make contact with her daughter. she went in through the window. >> she called our office asking for a welfare check of the residence, although nothing was found suspicious. the residence was secure, no need to force entry. >> reporter: the sheriff scott jenkins says it appears the couple had some kind of an argument on saturday. >> everything at this point from physical evidence to field interviews and so forth points to a murder suicide most likely the result of the father doing. so. >> reporter: the house is grouped with four others and neighbor richard massey says clarence washington was a quiet guy who worked as a janitor at the nearby sycamore elementary school. his daughter was best friends with 6-year-old onya. >> my daughter is not understanding right now because her friends ar

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shauna washington, her husband clarence and their three daughters, onesha, onya and olivia were found dead late sunday night in their house on rixeyville road. the girls range in age from 4 to 13. the sheriff says all evidence points to the couple having a fight on saturday that ended with mr. washington pulling the trigger. >>> the defense has wrapped up its cross-examination of the prosecution's star witness in the trial of former virginia governor bob mcdonnell. mcdonnell's lawyers got their chance to question jonnie williams and the testimony revealed the former governor may not have known that the rolex watch his wife, maureen, gave him had been given to her by williams. >>> former white house press secretary james brady has died. he was 73. brady was severely wounded during an assassination attempt on president ronald reagan. >> the injury made him one of the country's best known gun control advocates. >> reporter: it is one of the most enduring images in american history. president ronald reagan shot outside a washington, d.c. hotel. gunman john linkly said out -- hinckley said