CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. - 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, of Afton, Va., was charged in separate shootings at a house and a credit union early Thursday, police said. He was not charged with firing shots along a rural stretch of Interstate 64, but authorities said he was considered a suspect.
Authorities were still investigating whether a second person was involved in the highway shootings, but had not yet identified anyone. The Albemarle County police officer involved in the shooting is on administrative leave with pay, county Police Chief John Miller said.
The highway gunfire began early Thursday on I-64 on a 20-mile stretch between Charlottesville and Waynesboro.
A motorist called police just after midnight to report it, and in the next few hours, gunshots hit two cars, a van, a tractor-trailer, another vehicle and an unoccupied dump truck.
Two people were hurt, but the injuries were not life-threatening.
The highway shootings put motorists and police on edge in a region where memories of the deadly Beltway snipers in 2002 still haven't faded. Ten people were killed in those attacks.
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