By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM
2 Arrested in Virginia Highway Shootings 
One of the suspects, Slade A. Woodson, 19, of Afton, Va.
Two teenagers were arrested on Friday in connection with a series of highway shootings near Charlottesville, Va., that left two people with minor injuries and shut down the road for several hours early Thursday, the state police said.
Slade A. Woodson, 19, of Afton, Va., was arrested at a single-story clapboard house in Albemarle County, the authorities said, after an early-morning standoff with the police that culminated in gunfire. A second suspect, a 16-year-old resident of Crozet, Va., was also taken into custody but was not identified because he is a juvenile.
The two men, who the police said were friends, will be charged in the shootings that took place along a stretch of Interstate 64, the police said in a statement. The police also charged Mr. Woodson with two separate shootings, one at a credit union and another at a residence in Waynesboro, Va., that also took place early Thursday morning.
The highway shootings, which appeared to be random, offered a faint echo of the 23-day string of sniper shootings that terrorized the Washington area in 2002. The rural stretch of Interstate 64 is about an hour’s drive from the location of the 2002 shootings.
Six vehicles, including a tractor-trailer and a dump truck, were hit by bullets Thursday, along with a maintenance building owned by the Department of Transportation. Two drivers were treated for minor injuries at a local hospital and released.
Mr. Woodson was arrested early Friday at a small house on Yonder Hill Farm, in Crozet. Another person in the house, a man who was not identified, was shot and wounded by the police after he confronted them by brandishing a handgun, the police said. The man was flown to a hospital for treatment, and a police spokeswoman said he was in stable condition. What? He wasn't going to do anything with that gun -- and those low-down cops shot him.
Mr. Woodson was one of five people in the house at the time. Police officers said he was the owner of an orange 1974 AMC Gremlin that appeared to match the one in a surveillance tape of the credit union shooting. Ha -- a Gremlin -- very stealthy, Einstein.
The initial reports of gunfire came in early Thursday, when the police were notified shortly after midnight that a car had been hit by bullets near the University of Virginia.
One of the suspects, Slade A. Woodson, 19, of Afton, Va.Two teenagers were arrested on Friday in connection with a series of highway shootings near Charlottesville, Va., that left two people with minor injuries and shut down the road for several hours early Thursday, the state police said.
Slade A. Woodson, 19, of Afton, Va., was arrested at a single-story clapboard house in Albemarle County, the authorities said, after an early-morning standoff with the police that culminated in gunfire. A second suspect, a 16-year-old resident of Crozet, Va., was also taken into custody but was not identified because he is a juvenile.
The two men, who the police said were friends, will be charged in the shootings that took place along a stretch of Interstate 64, the police said in a statement. The police also charged Mr. Woodson with two separate shootings, one at a credit union and another at a residence in Waynesboro, Va., that also took place early Thursday morning.
The highway shootings, which appeared to be random, offered a faint echo of the 23-day string of sniper shootings that terrorized the Washington area in 2002. The rural stretch of Interstate 64 is about an hour’s drive from the location of the 2002 shootings.
Six vehicles, including a tractor-trailer and a dump truck, were hit by bullets Thursday, along with a maintenance building owned by the Department of Transportation. Two drivers were treated for minor injuries at a local hospital and released.
Mr. Woodson was arrested early Friday at a small house on Yonder Hill Farm, in Crozet. Another person in the house, a man who was not identified, was shot and wounded by the police after he confronted them by brandishing a handgun, the police said. The man was flown to a hospital for treatment, and a police spokeswoman said he was in stable condition. What? He wasn't going to do anything with that gun -- and those low-down cops shot him.
Mr. Woodson was one of five people in the house at the time. Police officers said he was the owner of an orange 1974 AMC Gremlin that appeared to match the one in a surveillance tape of the credit union shooting. Ha -- a Gremlin -- very stealthy, Einstein.
The initial reports of gunfire came in early Thursday, when the police were notified shortly after midnight that a car had been hit by bullets near the University of Virginia.
Well -- be sure to give them light sentences -- I'm sure they've learned their lessons and will never do anything like this again.
I saw pics on the news -- bullet holes in windshields -- ah -- prolly just an unlucky shot -- they weren't aiming for it -- t'was an accidink.
Hey -- I wonder if he wrote a manifesto.
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