Woodson arrested in shootings

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.

Woodson is charged with firing into an unoccupied building and destruction of property in connection with the Waynesboro incidents and is a suspect in the I-64 shootings, all of which took place early Thursday.

Albemarle and state police shot an armed man while executing a search warrant on the Crozet farm where Woodson was arrested. Woodson was arrested without incident. The injured suspect is being treated at the University of Virginia Medical Center.