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ACPD arrests suspect in April 17 Old Preston Ave. shooting

ACPD arrests suspect in April 17 Old Preston Ave. shooting

Kevin Anderson, 34 Photo: Saga Communications/Charlottesville Police Department


CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Kevin Anderson, a suspect in an April 17 shooting on Old Preston Ave., was arrested Monday by Albemarle County Police Department.

The 34-year-old Anderson was wanted by Charlottesville Police on two counts of malicious wounding, two counts of a use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and one count of possession of a firearm by a felon following the 2 a.m. shooting.   

ACPD has charged Anderson with one charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, two charges of malicious wounding and two charges of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.

Officers responded to a call in the 100 block of Old Preston shortly before 2 a.m. on April 17.  

They arrived and found an adult male who had been shot.

He was transported to UVA Health with a non-life-threatening injury.  

As officers were with him at the hospital, an adult female drove herself to the same hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound as well. 

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