Virginia State Police announced they have put under arrest a man in connection with the shooting that occurred yesterday on Interstate 64, and exchanged gun fire with a second suspect.

The first suspect was identified as 19-year-old Slade Allen Woodson of Afton, Va. He was arrested as police officers searched a farm in central Virginia.

During the search at the farm, police exchanged fire with another suspect, who was shot and is currently at a nearby hospital for treatment, said Col. Steve Flaherty.

The second man’s condition is unknown.

The Virginia Police report shows Woodson was charged in a separate bank shooting that occurred on Thursday morning. He might face more charges, police officials said.

Police had a search warrant for the farmhouse in Crozet, Va., where they found the suspects.
Police officers executed the warrant at a rural residence called Yonder Hill Farm in Albemarle County.

The investigation to find out whether the shots fired at a bank building and in a residential Virginia neighborhood are linked to the I-64 series of shootings is still under way.

Five vehicles were hit in the series of gun shots along Interstate 64 in Virginia prompting authorities to shut down 20-mile stretch of the highway between Charlottesville and Waynesboro for nearly six hours.

Two people were hit and suffered non-life threatening injuries.

The five vehicles were hit by gunfire in three separate locations along I-64. Police dispatchers received the first report of gunfire on the interstate at 12:10 a.m. near mile marker 114 on the on-ramp to westbound I-64.

Three other vehicles were shot near the overpass at mile marker 106 and the fifth vehicle hit belonged to the Virginia Department of Transportation. The vehicle was parked in the vicinity of the Yancey Mill exit of I-64 and was unoccupied.