BY CARLOS SANTOS AND CLEVE WIESE
Media General News Service

CHARLOTTESVILLE  — Two suspects in Thursday's sniper shootings on Interstate 64 have been charged with multiple felonies.

Authorities said Slade Woodson, 19, of Afton, was taken into custody Friday morning as police executed a search warrant just west of Crozet. The second suspect, a 16-year-old male, also was arrested during the police raid.

State police said this afternoon that each has been charged with two counts of malicious wounding; two counts of using a firearm to commit a felony; one count of attempted malicious wounding and five counts of shooting into an occupied vehicle.

In addition to the Interstate shootings, Woodson was charged with shooting into an occupied building and destruction of public property. Police said the charges stemmed from a shooting at the DuPont Community Credit Union and at a private home in Waynesboro early Thursday.

Woodson and the juvenile were among five people in the house when police executed the warrant. State police said one of the other people was armed and confronted officers.

The person with the gun was wounded by police and is being treated at an area hospital, state police said.

State police said Woodson is the owner of an orange 1974 AMC Gremlin that may have been used in Thursday’s I-64 shootings. Two shooters fired bullets randomly at passing cars along the I-64 corridor near Crozet, leaving two people with minor injuries.

The house where Woodson and the 16-year-old were arrested is a small, one-story, clapboard structure. It is part of a horse farm named Yonder Hill Farm.

State police troopers spent several hours processing evidence at the house, which was surrounded by yellow crime-scene tape.

State police are unsure if Woodson lived at the house or was just visiting at the time of his arrest.

Carlos Santos is a staff writer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Cleve Wiese is a staff writer for The News Virginian.