"snipers" taking potshots @ VA motorists on I-64

[Kind of Blued]

So that's all over and done with?

I hope its forgotten, or if remembered, not remembered as the media portrayed it (I won't use the "S" word ).

I see the @$$ made it a whole year past his 18th birthday before effectively removing himself from society and ruining his life. I suspect he may find the affection that he never received from his parents once he enters the prison system.

 

[Hobie]

This is Slade Allen Woodson the arrested suspect.

 

[RNB65]

Hillbilly trash strikes again. I love it when the bg's try to make an inconspicuous getaway in an orange Gremlin. Smooooth...

Police arrest 1, shoot 1 during sniper probe

Friday, Mar 28, 2008 - 07:21 AM Updated: 11:42 AM

BY CARLOS SANTOS AND CLEVE WIESE
Media General News Service

CHARLOTTESVILLE — One person was arrested today and another was shot as police searched an Albemarle County house during their investigation of yesterday’s Interstate 64 shootings.

Authorities said Slade Woodson, 19, of Afton, was taken into custody this morning as police executed a search warrant just west of Crozet. Woodson was charged with two felonies related to shootings yesterday in Waynesboro but was not charged in relation to yesterday’s
I-64 shootings that injured two motorists.

Virginia State Police Sperintendent Col. W. Steven Flaherty said Woodson was being interviewed late this morning by authorities at the Albemarle County Sheriff’s Department.

"Woodson is considered a suspect in the Interstate 64 shootings," Flaherty said.

Woodson was one of five people in the house where police executed the warrant, and Flaherty said one of the other people was armed and confronted officers, who shot him. The person, whose identity was not immediately released, was being treated at a hospital, said Flaherty, who did not elaborate on his condition.

Woodson was charged on Waynesboro warrants, on one felony count of shooting into an occupied building and one of destruction of public property. Police said the charges stemmed from a shooting at the DuPont Community Credit Union and at a private home in Waynesboro early yesterday.

Flaherty said Woodson is the owner of an orange 1974 AMC Gremlin that police believe may have been used in yesterday’s I-64 shootings. Two shooters fired bullets randomly at passing cars yesterday morning along the I-64 corridor near Crozet, leaving two people with minor injuries.

Flaherty also said police believe others were involved in the I-64 shootings.

"We have not identified any additional suspects at this time," he said.

The house where Woodson was arrested and the other person was shot is a small, one-story, clapboard structure is part of a horse farm named Yonder Hill Farm. The farm includes a hay barn and horse barn.

State police troopers spent several hours today processing evidence at the house, which was surrounded by yellow crime-scene tape.

Flaherty said police were unsure if Woodson lived at the house or was just visiting at the time of his arrest.

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

 

[SaMx]

any ID on the type of rifle used?

 

[ilbob]

any ID on the type of rifle used?

obviously a sniper rifle.

 

[cassandrasdaddy]

hes cute will be popular in jail
what kinda loser owns a 74 gremlin?
and hangs with folks who try and fail to shoot the cops when they show up. scary

 

[bogie]

I'm guessing he may be a trifle chemically challenged... May be going after the methbugs even as I type...

 

[Glockster35]

My wife was viviting a friend in the area during our sons Spring Break. She had to postpone her trip home because of this so called "sniper", I would like to have a go at him personally! Caused me to totally miss out on their Spring Break!

 

[Black Knight]

A second suspect has been arrested. A 16 year old juvenile. Also just heard in a news conference that a VSP Trooper was shot this morning in Giles County.

 

[41magsnub]

So they caught Wayne.. where is Garth?

 

[JohnBT]

I figured they'd caught them because when I drove through there this morning there wasn't one police officer in sight. Made good time. Real good time.

"Police said the charges stemmed from a shooting at the DuPont Community Credit Union"

Good thing I went there last week and not this week.


"“[The shooter] has access to a weapon,” said Clint Van Zandt, of Fredericksburg, a retired FBI profiler who worked the 2002 Washington, D.C., sniper shootings."

Well, duh. Just duh.

 

[Kim]

Zandt is an anti and always gets in his anti remark somehow.

 

[yhtomit]

Headline writer needs to be cuffed

"Woodson is Also Suspect in 64 Shootings"?!

I'd hate to manage the evidence room on all of those! Or to manage the evidence markings

timothy

 

[jrfoxx]

“[The shooter] has access to a weapon,” said Clint Van Zandt, of Fredericksburg, a retired FBI profiler who worked the 2002 Washington, D.C., sniper shootings. “This would have been a weapon that was laying around the house.”

Well, no kidding Officer Obvious! It dosnt take any experiance in profiling to figure out that someone shooting at cars with a gun....has access to a gun! :banghead: If one doesnt have access to a gun,one cant be doing any shooting can he? This guy was an FBI profiler? I should apply for a ob as a profiler, he standards obviously arent very high at the FBI.....

Ok, just thought it was a really funny statement. and kinda surprised it got printed too.printed. Glad they caught these idiots.

 

[herohog]

Apparently each shot is a "shooting" now, every bullet a stockpile, every gun an arsenal. And it was bubba and booger whut got caughtted. Whoo-we! I'mz shocked I'm iz!

 

[LAK]

What is it about VA cars that make for such tempting targets. Not that it has never occurred anywhere else; but VA again?

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[JohnBT]

I have no idea. In other news...from either the Lynchburg paper or the Charlottesville paper...

"Prior to his arrest today, Slade A. Woodson had been charged in January 2007 with two felony counts of auto theft and two felony counts of arson.

Woodson, a 19-year-old Afton resident who attended Western Albemarle High School, later was found guilty of reduced charges, misdemeanor petty larceny and destruction of property. He was sentenced to 12 months in jail, with six months suspended, according to court records.

“I wish we could have nipped this in the bud back then, but unfortunately we couldn’t,” said William Clark, an investigator with the Albemarle County Fire Marshal’s Office.

Clark said that Woodson would steal trucks and “dog ’em” - or drive them fast and hard - and then set them on fire once the trucks broke down."
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IIRC what I read yesterday, one of trucks he stole and burned belonged to the father of his sister's husband. Or something like that.

A real class act.

John

 

[Titan6]

I for one and am really glad they were captured quickly. I have family that travels that interstate every day. And while very few members of my family travel without firearms there is very little you can do defensively against a shooter from a overpass as you are driving down the road.

 

[Titan6]

Amazing, steals and burns two cars and gets six months in jail.

 

[1911Tuner]

A real class act.

Yeah. More and more, I understand why tigers eat their young...

 

[Sage of Seattle]

“I wish we could have nipped this in the bud back then, but unfortunately we couldn’t,” said William Clark, an investigator with the Albemarle County Fire Marshal’s Office.

Huh? The who could have, exactly, if not 'we'? I guess it was more important for the prosecuting attorney to accept a lesser plea than go to court over multiple felonies.

 

[Titan6]

Huh? The who could have, exactly, if not 'we'? I guess it was more important for the prosecuting attorney to accept a lesser plea than go to court over multiple felonies.

Trying to let the youth mend the errors of his ways... FAILED