Virginia State Police have announced the arrest of a second unnamed suspect in the Interstate 64 Shootings.
Slade Woodson, 19 and the unnamed 16 year old face two felony counts of malicious wounding, two counts of using a firearm to commission a felony and four counts of maliciously shooting at an occupied vehicle.
Given that the 16 year old lives in Crozet, it is likely that this student attends Western Albemarle High School. We aren’t interested in naming names for a juvenile, so don’t.
Further Reading from cVillain:
Slade Woodson, MySpace and a Community Discussion
Initial Coverage of the shooting incident
Full Press Release as of March 28 from Virginia State Police after the break…
Two individuals will be charged in connection with the March 27, 2008, overnight Interstate 64 shootings in the Charlottesville area. Friday afternoon, Albemarle County Commonwealth’s Attorney has authorized 10 charges to be placed against Slade Allen Woodson, 19, of Afton, Va., and a 16-year-old Crozet, Va., male. The juvenile male is currently in State Police custody.
Woodson and the juvenile each face:
- 2 felony counts of malicious wounding
- 2 counts of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony
- 4 counts of maliciously shooting at an occupied vehicle
These charges stem from the four shootings that took place in the westbound lanes of I-64 near the Route 690 overpass. Two of those shootings resulted in drivers suffering minor injuries.
For the shooting at the on-ramp to I-64 at Exit 114, Woodson and the juvenile will be charged with:
- 1 felony count of attempted malicious wounding
- 1 count of maliciously shooting at an occupied vehicle
These charges will be placed in addition to the two Waynesboro arrest warrants served on Woodson Friday morning. Woodson has been transferred from the Albemarle County Jail to the Middle River Regional Jail in Verona. The juvenile will be held in the Blue Ridge Detention Center in Albemarle County.
“We are still awaiting the ballistic analysis results from the ATF and have been in touch with them throughout the day,” said Colonel W. Steven Flaherty, Virginia State Police Superintendent. “As you might imagine, there is a substantial amount of ballistic evidence related to this investigation and it takes time to thoroughly examine each and every piece.”
Among the evidentiary items collected during the investigation is a weapon similar to the caliber of the ballistic evidence collected at the various scenes. However, investigators are not in a position to confirm that this is the weapon used during these incidents.
This investigation is still very active and investigators will continue working through the night and weekend. As investigators continue to comb through leads and evidence, additional charges against the two individuals are likely to result in the coming days.
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Guys could you give your opinion on this one.
Can’t get this Slade stuff out of my head. Was thinking when I was 16 I stole and got caught stealing purple
eyeshadow. Hard to take eye shadow to shooting at people but follow me. As far as I know my parents are not thieves. The Woodson family have suffered a sort of death. Death as in the death of their dream of their son’s future, at least for now. Does anyone think it may help the family and their future to show support towards their
family. Not for what their son did, just how about laying a bit of compassion on them. If this may be a good idea, what
would it be possible to do? In NO way am I forgetting these kids hurt and could have killed two people. Burned things, just acting rotten in general. Am I trying to be too idealist? Maybe just a note to the family. I don’t know.
Oh and I hate the color purple!
JMU Duke here lodging an official protest against your hatred of the color purple
purple is both a fruit and a fruit flavor. never forget that.
next question, ernest: you’re a girl, right? eyeshadow, and so on…
also, i am down with your mentality towards the family. pen that letter if you want, i think it’s a great sentiment.
OMG sorry but do they hate eyeshadow?
Ideas, please!
Oprah wouldn’t be thrilled with me either.
Tossed my idea to a 19 year old and 17 year old. The 19 really liked the idea the 17 thought it was stupid!
No I am a really cute drag queen
Would you pen one? parlie
Odie, GO JMU go DUKE!
i may not be the man for that particular assignment.
Okay do you think The Hook or C’ville might be willing to have the letters, (maybe just mine) send to their
office and then mail it to the family? Or it that asking for WAY too much. I have no idea where to sent it to
but in time there will be an address.
Is this a silly waste of time and thought and I am being grandeous (can’t spell that word)? Maybe they just want
to be left alone. I just don’t know and I don’t know how I would feel if I were those guys. I do know the letters I got when a family
member died made me feel embraced. Now I am sounding stupid to myself!
Ernestina, despite being labeled the official jackass of this thread, I will attempt to answer this question sincerely with a story that has shaped who I am.
When I was in art school, I had a painting teacher who was connected with the whole tibet liberation movement. When the Dali Lama came to speak at our school, this teacher managed to get his translator, a fairly enlightened fellow himself, to come and speak to the class. We all sat in a circle and just yapped and asked questions for a couple hours. At one point, someone asked him what he thought was the most important aspect to life was (we were in college, questions like that were a asked every day, heh). Anyway, this fellow, who was seated to my right proceeded to tell a story about how chinese soldiers had come to his home and basically lined his whole extended family up outside and shot them. He apparently had been hiding, but watched his whole family get killed. As he told this story, he reached down and grabbed my hand. And squeezed. And squeezed. He said that his hatred of the chinese, not just the soldiers, but ALL chinese was enormous and all consuming. It destroyed him. He ended up in a monastery, where he learned eventually to forgive them, and have compassion for them. He then said that forgiveness was the most important aspect to life, and that if he could forgive the chinese, and in fact the specific soldiers for what they did, then anyone could be capable of forgiving anyone of anything. I don’t know if it was the story, or the words, or various degrees of of tension in his hand as it unfolded, but the whole thing had a profound effect on me.
So when the Mormons or the JoHo’s (who as it ironically turns out, do not enjoy a good knock knock joke) show up at my door, and I go into my whole “I have no use for religion, as I do not believe in evil”, that is basically what I mean. “Evil” is merely the convenient and intellectually lazy way to describe that which is beyond our capacity to forgive. It’s a catch all compartment to toss the real challenges to our hearts. It stunts us from developing spiritually.
So how does this pertain to your query? Forgiveness is always appropriate, as is compassion. And truly deeply, I believe that these traits should not only be extended to these person’s family, but also to them, whether they are guilty or not. Wrestling with the dilemma of just how to do that is like spiritual jazzercise. It helps you grow.
This is just my opinion, for whatever it is worth. It is the walk I try to walk in my life, despite what often may appear to be a gratuitous amount of snark in my normal posts.
8: That was quite lovely, B yo. Thanks for sharing. A very good story.
First off, You are not a jack ass from what I can read. You are just really quick and sometimes have to back it up. Don’t we all!
Thanks for the story and opinion. I’m kind of over trying because I am having a lot of “spiritual jazzercise’”.
I have a friend that prays all the time. I truly believe her “God” listens. I’m going to call her and ask if she’ll
throw one the Woodson’s way. Trust me, everybody listens to her, except maybe her husband, of course.
I don’t have the “connections” she does!
Ernest, you could contact Western Albemarle High School and ask them to forward letters on for you?
B Yo - Thank you. That was truly lovely.
Earnestina - Your hearts in the right place. Godspeed
You know how when you gloss over a post you may get the gist but not the specifics. That’s what happened here. I honestly thought Earnestina was proposing offering comfort to the stricken Slade family by sending them… eyeliner…possibly shoplifted. I thought, what an odd and curious way to show your solidarity and grief. While I think cosmetics may provide some solace to the mother, a nice pork roast would be appreciated by the whole family. Cooking is probably the last thing they want to do. Anyway, I doubt the Hook would be able to send a pork roast dinner to the family even if you did cook one up. So yes, a letter might be nice. Do they have local weekly in Afton? It certainly can’t be easy for anyone in that family, especially not with all the haterade being thrown at them
Interesting. My son had shop classes with Slade, and knows half the folks on that myspace page friend list. I’d be willing to bet he knew the accomplice as well, as their ages are closer. I suppose we will find out on monday.
Sheesh.
I am using this story as a cautionary tale as best I can.
If anyone here had heard Greg Mortenson, Festival of the Book, author of “Three Cups of Tea” they would know what a loving heart does. The taking of sides is slippery slope to cruelty. Ignorance and fear are the greatest dangers for us humans. It is not that Slade should and will be punished. It is that there are many sides to a person’s story. …to a family’s story. Let’s be grateful that no one was killed. If Slade can understand how close he came to irreconsilable mistakes, he may have a chance for a good life.
Hi Ditto, just ordered Three Cups of Tea. A friend told me about it earlier, same month.
You are right about no one being killed, which I find amazing.
Hopefully Slade will understand how close he came to never coming back. You are right he may have
a chance for a good life. If he can maybe he can avoid a ground hog day. Maybe he can think about how
sheer lucky he was not to take two lives.
Belmont yo, There are two people I really just can’t stand. If your monk can forgive the Chinese I have high
hopes I can forgive those two. Not to make light of your beautiful story in anyway. My two have not killed a
person, at least don’t think so. Should be easy, but damn I am trifling. Hate that I know I am small for not
having forgivness, But everytime I try with one of the two, she snipers me with words over and over, only
when no one else can hear. Suggestions?
Maybe the book will give me insight. Avoidance is working for this whimp for now, that is a lie I’m trying to believe it is working but it’s not, in my heart.
ditto’s been graced with a host of gifts; perspective, temperance, empathy, and efficiency of language. he or she is gud.
I would just like a to give a big pat on the back to all you folks who are keeping a candle burning for the family of this kid. Really nice sentiment. I’m sure they would love to know about the good thoughts coming their way. Their life around here will never be the same, world wind changes I would have to say. Hopefully something good will come out of it for them, but I’m sure that it’s a living hell right now.
You guys are very caring folks.
HOOK/ CH’ville publications.
Maybe one of you look at this site and can offer an idea/suggestion. If that is legal.
Set up a mailbox or something? I’d be happy to pay for that service.
Hello out there! Good Morning!
As long as he stays out of the bars downtown he has the support of everyone here, right guys?
Thanks, Parlie. I’ll credit my mom here. Those adjectives definitely apply to her. She’d be grateful.
I feel earnestina is a true christian. I feel and agree that we need to show support for the Woodson family. They did nothing wrong, their son did. I can’t imagine what the mother is going through. I would be so depressed. I do feel they should of seen the warning signs when slade began his criminal career. I would of as a responsible mother found my son help. This is just sad for all involved.
Ernest, you can mail a letter to the CVillain office and Parlie can pass it on to me. I will give it to Ms. Woodson for you.
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shenanigans could you and parlie be any more kind.
Could you post the address please?
Guys when Shenanigans posts the address please try to write just something. I think in my heart, it may
make a difference, not a big one, but a good one:). Thank you all so very much.
Belmont Yo, we need your letter, your words. Plus the fact you have a kid who shared shop with Slade, could
really make the family know where we are coming from.
Thanks Parlie, you and Shenanigans, are holding the torch, may the force be with you. You guys have helped my “spiritual jazzercise” ( thanks Belmont Yo)! My brain was exhausted!
You all are something I’m glad to have found!
earnestina
Spicy Bear Media LLC
250 W Main Street, Suite 101
Charlottesville, VA 22902
I guess this question is mostly for shen, but anyone who knows please answer. Are Slade’s parents still together? I’d hate to write a letter to “Mr. and Mrs. Woodson” if they are no longer together. That would make for a bad first impression of an otherwise well intentioned gesture.
Also, does he have any siblings?
@27: I don’t feel comfortable responding to those personal questions about the family. Whatever you put will be fine.
Yeah, echo, et. al.: your intentions are good, I think, but “Dear Family of Slade,” or “Dear Slade, family, and friends,” or somesuch is probably just fine.
fair enough
AI hope next week we have topics on which we are allowed to be irreverent. Because I think all this reverence is gonna give me a stroke.
Ernestina, you don’t need my words. My words are just dust swirling around some lonely gas station parking lot. They won’t help anything or anyone.
Hey Echo,
I am going to send my letter that could never be good enough to our darling shenanigans for the Woodsons! Then he/she will deliver or not. Either way, this site has a bunch of people I wish I knew in real life. Thank you shenanigans , you are peach ( that is a real good thing in southern land Honey:) !)
Maybe just to the Woodson Family. From what I have read he was not living with his parents.
All i know is he has a cousin ( my step son’s friend said to me) that is really a very nice gal.
I think doing something maybe left of perfect is WAY better than nothing at all. I do not anything perfectly
but, this is a leap of faith may may slap us back or make a very big difference. I would hate to wish I
had not bothered with a modest effort. But then again this is just one more thing.
I think, we can make someone feel better. Even if it is his parents, second cousins removed three times.
Honestly I think this may simply be a gesture from a person that is trying to able comfort. So I am doing this
for me, and hope I can make a family know I care. But to be honest we do wonderful thoughtful gestures to
remind ourselves we want/need to feel others. Echo, I can feel your humanity, I can read you are one of those
people
oh wait, i was gonna be sarcastic…guns and all…
or was that sardonic…?
Yeah, I’m glad no one was slade, I mean slain, in this incident. And I feel sorry for the families for having to deal with the fact that they raised suck F-ups. What a blow to a mother’s ego. Which is too bad, I’m sure it was heavy metal music and video games that made them do it.
when did this place go all “Mr. Rogers”?
the interenet
Give you ten years and hopefully you’ll think a little “Mr Rogers”.
Blow to a mother’s ego, it is much more than that. You have no children, I can tell.
Just you wait. Whatever.
Let’s write letters!
Oh if it was heavy metal and video games, our whole country is screwed. Every kid I know plays video games
and I know all sorts of kids. MASH is no longer the only game in town! Kids are wonderful creatures. Take the
time to talk to a few!….that play video games and listen to music you do not like!
Belmont Yo, everyone needs your words. PLEASE!
Now I’m going back to the mean person I really am
I am sorry for the family having to go throw this but if they had minded thier kid and didn’t let thier kids to do whatever. Maybe had a better home enviroment. There kid would not be in the sitution that he is in currently. I believe you are raised by your parents and it shows what kind of person you will be. I am sorry but I blame the parents alot for there child behavior and if he was underage the parents should be helds accountable. I was raise in a rough family sitution but I was love by both parents and knew it. I am currently supporting myself in life and a responible adult. All this B*** S**T about showing compation for this guy is rediculace! I may not be the brightness person on here but I now at least the difference between right and wrong. My GOD he almost kill somebody.
I guess @39 won’t be writing any letters.
Guess not!
Again I stole eyeshadow and my parents are not thieves.
If my kids get into trouble and they will sure hope I am not blamed forever. Shoot my daughter got a reckless speed
ticket, I did not push the gas petal. Nor am I an especially fast driver. I don’t smoke pot, they have.
You’re right Grin, he did almost kill someone, no getting around that.
@39: Looks like your parents never taught you to write. Tsk.
But everytime I try with one of the two, she snipers me with words over and over, only
when no one else can hear. Suggestions?
Just realize that people like that typically live miserable, unhappy lives. Pity them, then forget them.
Thanks Oy, you confirmed what I thought.
de nada
some people are just “broken”, and it’s usually best not to have them as part of your life. There are more than enough amazing people out there to worry about why someone is hateful or petty - keep yourself surrounded by positive people, not negative ones. They can’t be fixed or pleased, just temporarily placated, and that usually at the cost of part of your well-being. They’re not worth it.
So not worth it.
@ 42 Never said I was the brigthest person on here. If that is all you can come back with than. I guess your not all that either.
OMG oy, thanks! I have bored my friends senseless with this b.s. Over and over for years. Lucky for me
I have wonderful friends that love me enough to be bored that badly.
This person is broken. Your whole post is so perfect and everything I thought. I sent this person a note that
said I just can’t be around you, she called me insecure. Trust me I have tried so hard because she is important
to my husband. Maybe instead of sending a note I should have made up lies everytime I was suppose to see her.
I have a ton of great friends and I have allow this person to own my thoughts. Dr. Oy, how can I erase all of this
from my head? You must have had something happen mean to you because you addressed my problem so well. How can you stop giving a shit? Lucky for me there are only two people that hate me (that I know of). Funny they are grown ( very immature) daughter and her mother.
nah, I’ve been pretty lucky. A few scars, but nothing major.
There’s only one single thing you have to do - realize that their opinion of you doesn’t matter to you or those who love you. Get there and their relevance to your life will become nothing.
When you see them. Be polite, friendly. Don’t worry about, and don’t mention, anything they may have done to say or hurt you. Their opinion of you doesn’t matter. This will solve all of these problems for you.
plus, it’ll REALLY piss them off
Oy, I am so on it. They have been reduced to a forgotten about scar!
Thank you SO much!
you’re totally welcome
now, before I completely ruin my online reputation as an insensitive prick, I’m gonna run over to the “And now she is dead” thread and make an entirely innapropriate botched boob job joke…
@47: What was that? I don’t speak Special Ed…