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Summary of I-64 Shooting Case So Far Save Email Print
Albemarle County
Posted: 5:55 PM Mar 31, 2008
Last Updated: 11:21 AM Apr 1, 2008

Virginia State Police investigators search for evidence inside a house in Crozet, Va., where I-64 shooting suspect Slade Allen Woodson, 19, was arrested by police during an early morning raid, Friday, March 28, 2008. Police say officers were confronted by another man with a gun, who was shot and wounded. (AP Photo/Don Petersen)

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The 19-year-old accused in the shootings along Interstate 64 made an appearance in court Monday. Slade Allen Woodson was ordered behind bars without bond.

However, this court appearance was only on charges stemming from a series of shootings last week in Waynesboro.

Woodson is charged with one felony count of destruction of property and one felony count of malicious shooting into an occupied building for those incidents.

Police responded to two separate calls in Waynesboro on Thursday, one at the DuPont Community Credit Union and another at a house on North Commerce Avenue.

Woodson allegedly knows the residents of the house on North Commerce and he was arrested Friday in connection with these incidents.

Also on Friday, Woodson and a 16-year-old male from Crozet were charged in the Interstate 64 shootings that injured two people.

That 16 year old made an appearance in court Monday. Both he and Woodson each face ten charges in connection with the interstate shootings.
The judge in juvenile court denied the teen bail. He will next appear in court April 16 and he could face 90 years in jail if convicted as an adult.

However, Woodson is scheduled for a bond hearing Tuesday morning for the charges in Albemarle County.

Also, over the weekend, Virginia State Police and members of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms were able to link bullet casings from the interstate shootings to the ones in Waynesboro.

Ballistic evidence taken from both scenes were confirmed to be the same found inside the 1974 AMC Gremlin that Woodson was driving. Investigators determined that all the shells came from the same type of gun, a 22-caliber rifle, which was recovered from a farm in Crozet.

A team of ballistics investigators are still working on some of the evidence.

Investigators still have not released the name of the person injured during a raid at a Crozet farm where Woodson was taken into custody, however police sources say the man is the father of the 16 year old. He is currently listed in serious but stable condition. However, this man has hired an attorney who would not comment on the events leading up to the shooting in Crozet.

Investigators say, based on the evidence they have at this time, they do not expect any additional arrests.

Woodson will have a preliminary hearing on May 12. He faces more than 100 years in prison if he is found guilty on all charges.

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