YORK — A York County man arrested after police said he shot up a police car following a road rage incident was charged Thursday with three counts of attempted aggravated murder of law enforcement officers.
The charges are on top of the charges Andrew Francis Susalis, 35, received Wednesday, which included two counts of attempted second-degree murder, two counts of using of a firearm in the commission of a felony, two counts of reckless handling of a firearm, destruction of property and shooting into an occupied dwelling.
Authorities said Susalis fired about 100 rounds from a high-powered rifle when they arrived in the 300 block of Mark’s Pond Way just after noon. James City officers had gone to the upper York County address after multiple calls came in reporting that someone in a blue sedan had fired at an occupied car near Anderson’s Corner.
On Mark’s Pond Way, one officer was slightly injured from bullet fragments, but no one else was injured. A York-Poquoson sheriff’s deputy who arrived while the shooting was going on also wasn’t injured, nor was Susalis.
Police did not return fire because they weren’t initially sure where the gunfire was coming from, York-Poquoson Sheriff Ron Montgomery said Wednesday. They took cover while gunfire continued for about five minutes.
Susalis came out of his house and surrendered, authorities said. He’s being held at Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail.
Kim O’Brien Root, [email protected]
