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Report: Rays Prospect's Wife, Child Killed in Virginia Triple Homicide

The wife and son of Rays pitching prospect Blake Bivens were killed in a triple homicide in Virginia on Tuesday, according to ESPN's Jeff Passan.

The Pittsylvania County Sheriff's Office charged Matthew Thomas Bernard of Keeling, Va. with first-degree homicide. Bernard, 18, is the brother of Bivens' wife, reports Passan.

Police responded to a 911 call placed around 8 a.m. ET on Tuesday morning and found the body of a woman in the driveway of a residence. They found the bodies of a second woman and a child inside the residence. At 12:15 p.