Authorities in Virginia believe a pair of teens were behind a series of random shootings in an area where memories of the Washington-area sniper shootings six years ago are still fresh.
Investigators on Friday charged Slade Allen Woodson, 19, after authorities stormed a farm and fired at an unidentified man carrying a gun. Authorities also charged a 16-year-old, whose name was not released.
"Everyone can, I think, rest compared to the state that we were in overnight," State Police Superintendent Steven Flaherty said at a news conference Friday.
Investigators said they now believe the shootings that slightly injured two drivers were part of a long night of random gunfire in which the pair also shot at a credit union and a residence.
Woodson was charged in the shootings at the home and the credit union, as well as shootings along the Interstate 64 highway. He and the other teen were charged with two felony counts of malicious wounding, one count of attempted malicious wounding, two counts of the use of a firearm in a felony and five counts of maliciously shooting at an occupied vehicle.
Gunshots hit two cars, a van, a tractor-trailer and an unoccupied dump truck.
During a search of the farm police recovered a gun that is the same caliber as most of the ballistic evidence from the shootings; a search warrant indicated police were looking for a .22-caliber weapon.
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