Area police investigating 5 additional shootings

By The Daily Progress Staff

Published: April 2, 2008

Local and state police officers are investigating at least five additional shooting incidents in western Albemarle County to determine if they are related to last week’s shootings that struck five vehicles on Interstate 64.
Slade A. Woodson, 19, of Afton, was arrested last week and charged in connection with the interstate shootings, as was a 16-year-old Crozet boy. Two people were injured in the shootings.
Police on Wednesday did not release the locations of the five most recently reported incidents, but indicated they do not, at this time, expect to file any charges connected to them.
On Monday, the duo was levied with five additional felony charges that police say are related to three other incidents in the county.
Those incidents occurred in the 800 block of Dry Bridge Road, the 7000 block of Greenwood Station Road and the 900 block of Miller School Road. The charges include two counts of shooting into an occupied dwelling and three counts of shooting from a vehicle, creating the risk of injury or death to another.
Woodson faces 17 charges out of the early-morning shootings and the juvenile faces 15. The charges include eight felonies in connection with shots fired off the Route 690 overpass over I-64, two felonies from shots fired at the interstate’s Ivy exit and the five felonies most recently filed. In addition, Woodson faces two charges in connection with shots fired at a credit union and home in Waynesboro.
Woodson, who is being held at the Middle River Regional Jail in Verona, didn’t receive bond Tuesday but requested a court-appointed attorney. The juvenile is being held at the Blue Ridge Detention Center in Albemarle County pending an upcoming hearing.