Slade Woodson, 19, of Afton, was arrested shortly after 5 a.m. by Albemarle County and Virginia State Police in connection with a string of shootings on Interstate 64 and two shooting incidents in Waynesboro, authorities announced this morning.

Thursday’s roadside shootings along Interstate 64 are not the first of their ilk in Central Virginia: For 10 days in 1991, an armed assailant kept motorists watching and worried as 17 drivers were fired upon with no apparent rhyme or reason in a series of drive-by shootings.

At least one person has been arrested in connection with the Interstate 64 shootings that injured two motorists yesterday morning, according to a police source.

Pegasus Medical Transport takes at least one to the hospital as county, state and federal authorities investigate a wounding at a western Albemarle County home. The home is located in the same general area of the county as Thursday’s highway shooting events. No word on whether the shootings and this morning’s incident are related.

By Thursday afternoon, life had essentially returned to normal for most residents of Crozet and other communities close the scene of the overnight highway shootings. Yet the so-called “sniper,” they said, was the topic of everyone’s conversation.

Several shots were fired at the Dupont Community Credit Union on Lucy Lane in Waynesboro early Thursday morning, hitting a window and exterior wall, as well as a sign and a repossessed van parked in front of the building, police said.

“To increase security in the area, we plan on increasing our presence through the county police and help from the Virginia State Police,” said Lee Catlin, county spokesman. “How that takes place, we’re not willing to say right now.”

Virginia State and Waynesboro police are working to see if a shooting in Waynesboro around the same time as the Interstate 64 shootings early Thursday are linked, police said.

The tranquil life along this stretch of country road in western Albemarle county turned into a flurry of police activity early Thursday morning as police continued to search for the person or persons that fired bullets into four cars along Interstate 64.

Police from at least five agencies are searching for two people seen at the time when shots were fired at vehicles traveling on the interstate. Shots came from the overpass at Route 690 - Greenwood Station Road - and the Ivy exit on the interstate at exit 114.

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The Virginia State Police shut down more than a 20-mile stretch of I-64 in either direction after shootings wounded two people shortly after midnight.

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At least two people were injured early this morning when their vehicles were shot on I-64 near an overpass on the east side of Afton Mountain, state police told The News Virginian. A 20-mile stretch of the interstate was closed from milepost 96 in Augusta County, near Waynesboro, to milepost 118 in Albemarle County.
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