Chesapeake, Va. – Do you still love me?
Prosecutors say that’s what Rachel Hutson asked her father while sitting in the back of a police cruiser.

Hutson was 19 years old when she was charged with murdering her own mother Susan Hutson.

It happened at their Osborn Avenue home on Black Friday last year.

According to the medical examiner’s report, 58-year-old Susan Hutson died from a shotgun blast to the chest at close range.

A search warrant states Hutson then called her father after the killing and sent him a photo of her mother’s body to prove it.

Last year, Defense Attorney Erik Porcaro told NewsChannel 3 the teen had a history of mental illness that had gone undiagnosed for years.

Chesapeake court documents show Hutson was admitted to Central State Hospital this summer.

In a letter to the judge in September, hospital officials said they found “little evidence of psychotic symptoms.”

The letter states that Hutson had the ability to control her outbursts of “impulsive,” “aggressive” or “destructive” behaviors when she chooses. Health officials also said Hutson understood the charges against her and was aware that the outcome of her case will have an impact on her future.

This week, a Chesapeake Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court judge ordered that Hutson is competent enough to stand trial now. But court documents show her attorneys plan to argue she wasn’t in the right state of mind on the day of the murder.

As Hutson sat in that police cruiser on the day of her arrest, prosecutors say her father told her he still loved her. She responded “Sorry.”

A West Virginia University freshman who did most of her campaigning out of her dorm room became the youngest state lawmaker in the nation Tuesday.

Republican Saira Blair, a fiscally conservative 18-year-old, will represent a small district in West Virginia’s eastern panhandle, about 1½ hours outside Washington, D.C., after defeating her Democratic opponent 63% to 30%, according to the Associated Press. A third candidate got 7% of the vote.

In a statement, Ms. Blair thanked her supporters and family, as well as her opponents for running a positive campaign. “History has been made tonight in West Virginia, and while I am proud of all that we have accomplished together, it is the future of this state that is now my singular focus,” she said.

Ms. Blair campaigned on a pledge to work to reduce certain taxes on businesses, and she also holds antiabortion and pro-gun positions. She defeated Democrat Layne Diehl, a 44-year-old Martinsburg attorney, whose top priorities included improving secondary education and solving the state’s drug epidemic.

Ms. Diehl congratulated Ms. Blair on running a good campaign and said she knew she was also up against broad dissatisfaction with Democrats in the state, partly from the widely held view that the Obama administration’s energy policies are hurting the coal industry.

“I’m very proud of the race that was run on both sides,” Ms. Diehl said. “Quite frankly a 17- or 18-year-old young woman that has put herself out there and won a political campaign has certainly brought some positive press to the state. I look forward to seeing what her leadership brings to the state of West Virginia.”

Ms. Blair gained national attention in May when she defeated the 66-year-old Republican incumbent in a primary when she was 17.

She will be the youngest state lawmaker in the nation, according to records kept by the National Conference of State Legislatures. There are more than 7,300 state legislators in the U.S., and fewer than 5% are under the age of 30, according to Morgan Cullen, a policy analyst at NCSL.

Ms. Blair said she would defer her spring semester to attend the part-time legislature’s 60-day session and make up classes in the summer and fall. She promoted her youth as an asset during the campaign, saying the voice of younger voters should be heard in the state capitol. An economics major, she hopes to become a financial planner, and she supports term limits.

She also contributed nearly $4,000 to her own campaign.

“Candidates should have some skin in the game,” Ms. Blair said in a recent interview. “I wanted voters to know I was serious.”

Election day is five days away and the candidates have been appearing on CBS-6 News at 7.
Over the past several weeks, we’ve heard from the two major party candidates in the race for U.S. Senate, the incumbent Democrat Sen. Mark Warner and his Republican challenger Ed Gillespie .

Thursday we heard from Robert Sarvis, the Libertarian candidate.  Sarvis had been excluded from debates with Warner and Gillespie because he had not previously polled at least 15%, a barrier that frequently prevents third party candidates from getting the attention of the electorate.

He offers his take on some of the contentious issues of the day, including drones, the Affordable Care Act and government regulation.

Click on the video player above.