Edie Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 Suspect arrested in Va. highway gunfire By LARRY O'DELL, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 8 minutes ago Authorities arrested a suspect early Friday in a series of highway shootings after storming a farm and firing at a man who met them with a handgun, police said. Slade Allen Woodson, 19, was charged in separate shootings at a home and a credit union early Thursday morning, police said. He was not charged with the shootings along a rural stretch of Interstate 64, but authorities said more charges were possible. "We've taken some mighty big steps toward resolution of this case," State Police Superintendent Steven Flaherty said at a news conference Friday. "Everyone can rest compared to the state we were in last night." State and county police searched a farm in Albemarle County just before 5 a.m. Friday. Another man confronted them with a handgun, and was shot by a county law enforcement officer, police said. Woodson was taken into custody, and the man was taken to a hospital. Authorities were still investigating whether a second person was involved in the highway shootings, but had not yet identified anyone, they said. The gunfire began early Thursday on Interstate 64 on a 20-mile stretch between Charlottesville and Waynesboro. Gunshots hit two cars, a van, a tractor-trailer, another vehicle and an unoccupied dump truck. Two people were injured, but not seriously. Sometime between midnight and 2 a.m., shots also were fired at a bank and a residence in Waynesboro. Police Sgt. Kelly Walker said four bullets struck the building, a sign and an unoccupied van in the parking lot. Police found a light-colored AMC Gremlin seen on surveillance video around the time shots were fired. The car had been abandoned along a road in Albemarle County. Woodson owns a vehicle that appears similar to the car in the video, police said. The shootings put motorists and police on edge in a region where memories of the deadly Beltway snipers still haven't faded. Ten people were killed and three wounded in the 2002 attacks in Maryland, the District of Columbia and northern Virginia. Oops -- we were just talking about that here and there are probably less than 1000 of these still registered in the US. It didn't take much police work to figure this one out Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bjorn_skurj Posted March 28, 2008 Share Posted March 28, 2008 That's some strong shit, make you steal a Gremlin. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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