I-64 cartridge casings match those found in car, state police say

Ballistics tests matched spent ammunition found in the car of the man charged in the Interstate 64 shootings with cartridge casings left from all six known shootings along I-64.

Slade Allen Woodson, 19, and a 16-year-old boy each face 10 felony counts stemming from the early-morning sniper shootings Thursday that struck at least six vehicles and injured two people.

Woodson now faces two additional felonies stemming from shootings at two sites in Waynesboro, the Virginia State Police said in a release.

The shots began around midnight Thursday on I-64. During the subsequent 29-hour manhunt, police found Woodson's 1974 AMC Gremlin abandoned north of Charlottesville containing shell casings from a .22-caliber rifle.

An analysis conducted by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives matched the casings with those left along a 10-mile stretch of I-64 west of Charlottesville.

The tests also linked the spent cartridges to a rifle seized from a house near Crozet where police apprehended Woodson and the boy, the state police said.

Calvin R. Trice is a staff writer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch.