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

wiping away uncontrollable tears, while think being her cousin, shauna washington. >> besides my real sisters, they don't live around here. we were close. >> reporter: she says they were more like sisters, best friends. >> he worked two full-time jobs. 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.

. >>> shauna washington was described as a loving and involved mother. chris gordon will have a more detailed look at shauna washington and her daughters at 5:00 tonight. >>> breaking news at 4:00, one of the nation's biggest gun control advocates has died. >> former reagan press secretary, james brady, passed away this morning at the age of 73. brady was one of four people shot during an assassination attempt on president reagan in 1981 here in d.c.he was shot in spent most of the rest of his life confined to a wheelchair, he suffered partial paralysis and slurred speech. the experience spurred brady to become a gun control advocate. in '93, president clinton signed the brady handgun violence prevention act requiring a five-day wait and a background check before someone could purchase a gun. the brady campaign to prevent gun violence is also named after him. as press secretary, brady was known for his whit and in 2000 the press briefing room was named in his honor brady's family said he died this morning at a nursing home in alexandria where he had been

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

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 are gone. >>

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