Police have arrested a suspect in yesterday's shootings in the vicinity of I-64 near Charlottesville in Virginia:

He is identified as 19-year-old Slade Woodson of Afton. Superintendent Colonel Steven Flaherty said at a Charlottesville news conference today that Woodson was arrested at about 5 a.m. near Crozet at a residence called Yonder Hill Farm.

Flaherty said there were five people at one of two homes on the property. He said a man there opened fire on police as they served a search warrant at 4:48 a.m., and police returned fire, wounding the armed man.

I watched the press conference on TV earlier and Flaherty said that Woodson isn't the only suspect in the shootings. Hopefully there will be further arrests today ... and hopefully these will be the right guys.

"Slade Woodson" is a fairly unusual name, so I Googled it. The only thing I saw was that the kid had been a fairly successful high school athlete (here, here and here). Colonel Flaherty said that police "were familiar" with Woodson prior to this morning's arrest.

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