One arrested, one sought in I-64 shootings

CHARLOTTESVILLE - At least one person has been arrested and another is being sought in connection with the Interstate 64 shootings that injured two motorists yesterday morning, a police source told Media General News Service today.
Police also executed a search warrant on a house in western Albemarle County this morning, according to Corinne Geller, a spokeswoman for the state police.

The house, a small, one-story, clapboard structure that was surrounded by yellow crime-scene tape, is part of a horse farm named Yonder Hill Farm. The farm includes a hay barn and horse barn.

State police are planning a news conference late this morning to discuss the new developments in the I-64 shootings, said Virginia State Police Sgt. Dave Cooper, who refused to release any further details about the case. The news conference was originally scheduled for 10 a.m. but was moved back to 11 a.m.
Police were looking for Slade Woodson, 19, of the Albemarle County community of Batesville as a person of interest in the shootings on I-64 and in Waynesboro.
Jill Tice said Waynesboro police detectives showed her a picture of Woodson, a high school friend of her son's.
Tice also told police she had recently seen Woodson driving an AMC Gremlin that matches the description of the vehicle seen on a surveillance camera in connection with a shooting at the DuPont Community Credit Union in Waynesboro early yesterday. Two bullets also were fired into Tice's home around 1:30 a.m.
Two shooters fired bullets randomly at passing cars yesterday morning along the I-64 corridor near Crozet, leaving two people with minor injuries. No one was injured in either of the Waynesboro shootings.
Police found an abandoned AMC Gremlin on U.S. 29 later yesterday afternoon, but have not released information about its owner.

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