RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia State Police have arrested a person of interest in the recent shooting on Interstate 64 westbound on unrelated charges.
Jerrell Hill, 28, of Henrico County was charged Tuesday with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and two counts of allowing access to a firearm by children.
CBS 6 legal analyst Todd Stone says investigators will try and match ballistics from a gun found during a search warrant of Hill's home to spent casings at the highway scene.
"We don't know if they'll match up or not, and of course, he's presumed innocent until they get that point,” Stone said. “The stamp of a firing pin on the back of a cartridge case goes a long, long way in convicting someone because it's pretty close to a fingerprint."
Hill has a list of new firearms charges to include allowing children access to firearms.
"If you do a search and find a child close to a firearm then that's a logical charge,” Stone said.
State police say other charges against Hill are pending, court records show he was charged with a probation violation in August.
Hill was sentenced in a Richmond court to three and a half years, but the entire sentence was suspended.
"No judge is clairvoyant. No judge can predict the future,” Stone said. “You just make the best decision with the information you have at that point. A lot of times a suspended sentence is done on a revocation for other reasons. Maybe he's done well in other areas, so it's hard to second guess without that information in front of us."
Additional charges are pending and the incident remains under investigation.
The victim of the Monday shooting remains hospitalized at VCU Medical Center.
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