CHARLOTTESVILLE - Police presence will be increased today and tomorrow along the I-64 corridor where at least two suspects fired randomly at cars from the side of the road and from an overpass early this morning.

Two drivers sustained minor injuries.

Flaherty cautioned motorists on I-64 to be watchful. "I think everybody needs to be observant," said Falherty. "We all need to be cautious...I think they (the shooters) could still be in the area."

State Police Superintendent Steven Flaherty said he has a "strategy" to deal with the potential of more shootings in addition to bolstering police numnbers, but he declined to reveal it.

Police believe more than one person was involved in the shootings based on what witnesses saw at the site of one shooting, Flaherty said. They have no suspects, however.

Police closed about 20 miles of the interstate from Charlottesville to near Waynesboro in Augusta County for six hours Thursday monring after receiving multiple reports of gunshots being fired starting at around midnight. Police are still uncertain how many shots were fired or the duration of the shooting. "We just don’t have a good feel for how long it went on," said Flaherty.

Few vehicles were on the road at that time of night, police said. One driver, a man, sustained an injury to his neck either form a bullet frargment of flying glass. The other injured driver, a woman, susstained a minor injury to her shoulder possibly from debris thrown by the bullet penetrating her vehicle. Both were treated and released at the Augusta Medical Center in Fishersville. Police refused to identify the two injured people, citing the ongoing investigation.

The shootings occured at three different locations along the interstate. One vehicle was struck by bullets as it drove onto the westbound ramp at the Ivy exit just west of Charlottesville at mile marker 114. Three other vehicles were struck in the westbound lane from a sniper shooting from the Rt. 690 overapass near the 106 mile marker. That overpass is about 10 miles from the Ivy exit.

Authorities asked that anyone with information on the shootings call state police at (434) 293-3223 or Crimestoppers at (434) 972-4000.

Times-Dispatch Staff Writers Ed Kelleher, Calvin Trice and Michael Martz contributed to this report.

 

When they catch them they should use same gun to shoot them. no costly trial .we are to soft on crime in this country. :lol: :lol:

 

Anybody care to take a guess at the age of the shooters? I'm going to say young to mid teens.

Some years ago, in WI, two kids, 12 and 14 dropped a concrete block off an overpass, and it went through the driver's windshield of a motorhome. The guy's wife was able to reach over and steer the motorhome to the side of the road safely, but the driver was killed instantly with the block embedded in his chest.

I've seen a couple of kids in WV tie what may have been an inner-tube from a bicycle to the two i-beam posts they use for hiway signs and use it to launch bricks at passing trucks. One of them went completely over my truck and landed in the median.

If they can get a good idea just where the shooters were when the shots were fired, they should be able to find shell casings with fingerprints. The kids may have thought to pick up all the casings, but they may also have been in a bit of a hurry to leave the area and could have left a couple laying. I hope they catch them. If they do it again, someone is going to die.

 

Update: One suspect has been captured during a search warrant execution, age 19, 2nd suspect is still loose police believe. Police also believe it may have been connected to a bank shooting just on the other side of Afton Mtn. in Waynesboro. Sometime during the night a bank was shot up as were several cars and a home and then the interstate shootings started.

http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/a...=D8VMM4QO0.xml

 

No Joke!
I gotta a horse and a rope and a bunch of trees! :lol:

 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,342748,00.html

 

Yep, 2nd teen arrested, 16 year's old.

Good job Windwalker, you were close. Punks that should be tried under the terrorism law, and the 16 year old should be tried as an adult. Good police work in tracking them down so quickly with a little help by the suspect's. Here's a clue, don't drive your own F-ing vehicle and certainly not one that is rare, not many AMC Gremlins on the roads anymore. And one more thing, don't leave it parked on the shoulder of a major US highway close to the scene. :roll: