Pickup Driver Arrested For Shooting In Stafford: Police

STAFFORD COUNTY, VA — The Stafford County Sheriff's Office arrested a Fredericksburg man Dec. 29 for firing a gun at another vehicle on Route 17, about two miles northwest of the interchange with Interstate 95, the sheriff's office said Monday. No one was injured in the shooting.

The suspect, 29-year-old Larry Johnson, who was driving a Chevrolet pickup truck, allegedly cut off a vehicle that was leaving the parking lot of a Wawa on Route 17 just before midnight on Dec. 28. Johnson got into an argument with the occupants of the vehicle, the sheriff's office said in a news release. Johnson then followed the vehicle as it was turning from Route 17 onto Celebrate Virginia Parkway, drove alongside the vehicle and allegedly fired a shot after pointing a gun at the vehicle. According to an occupant of the vehicle, Johnson continued driving northwest on Route 17.

After the gunshot, the vehicle approached a Stafford County Sheriff's deputy, who was on patrol in the area of 550 Celebrate Virginia Parkway, at about 11:57 p.m. on Dec. 28, and one of the occupants told the deputy about the incident.

Stafford County deputies issued a notification to law enforcement in the area to be on the lookout for a Chevrolet pickup truck. Shortly after issuing the notification, deputies with the Fauquier County Sheriff's Office located Johnson's truck on Route 17. Johnson was detained and later identified by a witness and a passenger in the vehicle as the person behind the shooting, according to the sheriff's office.

Johnson is being held at Rappahannock Regional Jail without bond on charges of attempted aggravated malicious wounding, shooting from a vehicle to endanger persons, and use of a firearm in commission of a felony. The sheriff’s office said the investigation is ongoing.