One of the suspects in the Interstate 64 sniper shootings has a history of stealing pickups, joyriding and arson, according to records and investigators.

The man shot by the Albemarle County Police Tactical Squad during the arrest of a suspect in the Interstate 64 shootings remains in stable condition, a police official said this evening.

The Virginia State Police this evening announced a host of charges against a 19-year-old Afton man and an unnamed juvenile in connection with the Interstate 64 shootings.

Police probing the Interstate 64 shootings have found small-caliber cartridge casings inside an abandoned 1974 AMC Gremlin and believe the shooter used a .22-caliber firearm, according to court documents.

The arrest of Slade Woodson, 19, of Afton, in connection with two Waynesboro shootings early Thursday morning came as no surprise to Jill Tice, 43 ,whose home was struck by two bullets in one of the incidents.

The suspect in the Interstate 64 sniper shootings has a history of stealing pickups, joyriding and arson, according to records and investigators.

The Myspace.com personal pages of the suspect in the Interstate 64 sniper shootings portray a heartbroken young man who revels in his country heritage.

A 19-year-old Afton man arrested near Crozet has been charged with two Thursday morning shootings in Waynesboro and is suspected in a spate of gunfire on Interstate 64 that wounded two people and struck five vehicles.

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.

Thursday’s roadside shootings along Interstate 64 are not the first of their ilk in Central Virginia: For 10 days in 1991, an armed assailant kept motorists watching and worried as 17 drivers were fired upon with no apparent rhyme or reason in a series of drive-by shootings.

At least one person has been arrested in connection with the Interstate 64 shootings that injured two motorists yesterday morning, according to a police source.

Pegasus Medical Transport takes at least one to the hospital as county, state and federal authorities investigate a wounding at a western Albemarle County home. The home is located in the same general area of the county as Thursday’s highway shooting events. No word on whether the shootings and this morning’s incident are related.

By Thursday afternoon, life had essentially returned to normal for most residents of Crozet and other communities close the scene of the overnight highway shootings. Yet the so-called “sniper,” they said, was the topic of everyone’s conversation.

Several shots were fired at the Dupont Community Credit Union on Lucy Lane in Waynesboro early Thursday morning, hitting a window and exterior wall, as well as a sign and a repossessed van parked in front of the building, police said.

“To increase security in the area, we plan on increasing our presence through the county police and help from the Virginia State Police,” said Lee Catlin, county spokesman. “How that takes place, we’re not willing to say right now.”