CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - Virginia State Police have arrested a suspect in the Interstate 64 shootings.
The state police superintendent identified the suspect today as 19-year-old Slade Woodson of Afton.
Colonel Steven Flaherty said at a Charlottesville news conference today that Woodson was arrested at about 5 a.m. near Crozet at Yonder Hill Farm.
Flaherty said there were four other people at the home. A man there fired shots at police and they fired back, wounding him. Flaherty did not identify the man, but said he was flown to University of Virginia Medical Center.
Flaherty said Woodson is a suspect in yesterday's I-64 shootings west of Charlottesville, but has not been charged in those shootings.
He is charged in two shootings that happened early yesterday in Waynesboro -- at a home and a credit union. Woodson is charged with shooting into an occupied building and destruction of property, both felonies.
Flaherty said police found Woodson's car last night after it was abandoned along Route 29. He said evidence from the car is being compared to evidence in the I-64 shootings.
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