If only someone in the hospital had bothered to call them…
Via The Washington Post:
At least three nearby hospitals had available beds the day before the son of Virginia state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds apparently stabbed his father and then shot himself to death, officials confirmed Wednesday.
Deeds’s condition was upgraded to good at a Charlottesville hospital as state mental-health officials continued to search for an explanation of what happened. Austin Deeds, who was 24, had undergone a psychiatric evaluation on Monday, but several officials said he was not admitted to a hospital because no bed was available.
It remained unclear Wednesday which hospitals were called and why Austin Deeds was not taken to one of the available facilities.
On Tuesday, the younger Deeds apparently took his own life following an altercation during which he stabbed his father in the face and chest at the family home in rural Bath County.