Two teenage suspects have been charged with multiple felonies in the shootings on Interstate 64, which occurred early Thursday morning.
According to a Virginia State Police press release, Slade Allen Woodson, 19, of Afton, Va. and a 16-year-old male from Crozet have been charged with a total of 10 felony counts of malicious wounding, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, shooting at an occupied vehicle and destruction of property. Woodson faces additional charges for shooting into an occupied dwelling and destruction of property in two shootings that occurred in Waynesboro the same night as the shootings on I-64.
Shell casings from each scene along I-64 have also been matched by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to a gun owned by Woodson, the report stated, but additional testing is still being conducted by the ATF lab.
"Based on the evidence collected at this stage of the investigation, we do not anticipate any additional arrests related to these crimes," said Colonel W. Steven Flaherty, Virginia State Police Superintendent, according to the report.
Although Albemarle County schools were closed Thursday as a result of the shootings, the University's schedule did not change. University Police Lieut. Melissa Fielding said the difference in scheduling is due to the fact that University students are already on Grounds, or very close to Grounds, while Albemarle County students must travel greater distances to attend school.
"Given the close proximity of the shootings to one of the high schools, they didn't want ... students driving into the danger or to bus students into an area where this occurred," Fielding said. "They felt that given the time of the incident and the hour in which students would be coming into that area, they didn't want to take any chances."
Although University students were still expected to attend classes as usual, Fielding said the University did take measures to ensure students' safety.
"We had a heightened police presence and security presence during that time until we felt it was no longer necessary," Fielding said, adding that e-mails about the situation were also sent to students as soon as information was available from the Virginia State Police.
Although the University increased security measures during this particular situation, Fielding said it is difficult to increase security indefinitely.
"There is no entrance to Grounds," Fielding said. "It's not like we're a gated community."
--Victoria Hinton contributed to this article.
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