OBSNews.com Reports Five Vehicles Were Hit by Gunfire on a Virginia Highway
Virginia State Police are looking for a suspect in a series of shootings at vehicles along Interstate 64 in Virginia, a police spokesman told OBS News.
Sgt. Dave Cooper said that five vehicles were hit by gunfire in three locations along I-64 in Virginia early this morning.
According to police, two people sustained non-life threatening injuries and were treated at area hospitals. Police said it was not clear if the injuries were caused directly by the gunfire, or from broken glass and fragments caused by the shots.
The first reports of gunfire came in at 12:10 a.m. near mile marker 114 on the on-ramp to westbound I-64. State police closed the intestate to traffic minutes later, Cooper said.
Three vehicles were reported to have been struck by gunfire near the overpass at mile marker 106.
A fifth unoccupied Virginia Department of Transportation vehicle was also struck. That vehicle was parked near the Yancey Mill exit of I-64.
Police say they are not releasing the type gun believed to have been used, but shell casings recovered at the scenes indicate that all five shootings might be connected.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is also involved in the investigation and is expected to examine the shell casings, according to a law enforcement official.
The interstate was opened shortly after 6 a.m. this morning. Police continue to search for the gunman.
The area affected is near Charlottesville, Va., approximately two-and-a-half hours outside Washington, D.C.
In October 2002, snipers killed 10 people and wounded three in the Maryland-Virginia-Washington metropolitan area.
Juries convicted John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo for those sniper attacks. Both men are behind bars in Virginia; Muhammed is on death row and Malvo is serving a life sentence without possibility of parole.