19-year-old taken into police custody, charged with second-degree murder after shooting death of man on I-85

BRUNSWICK COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) -- The 19-year-old man accused of shooting and killing a 20-year-old man along Interstate 85 in Mecklenburg was taken into custody by Virginia State Police in Brunswick County on Wednesday evening.

At 6:02 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 3, a senior special agent with the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation Appomattox Field Office was contacted by an acquaintance of 19-year-old suspect Jason Allen Glidewell, II.

According to police, the acquaintance said Glidewell wanted to turn himself in and was at the Meherrin River Regional Jail in the town of Alberta in Brunswick County.

Glidewell was taken into custody without incident with the assistance of the Brunswick County Sheriff's Office and the Town of Alberta Police Department, as well as troopers from the Virginia State Police Area 22 Office.

Police said Glidewell is being held at the Meherrin River Regional Jail without bond on the charges of second-degree murder and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony in connection to the shooting death of 20-year-old Hunter A. Bates, formerly of Colonial Heights, along I-85 northbound in Mecklenburg County.

Glidewell also reportedly faces unrelated outstanding misdemeanor charges out of Nottoway County.

Glidewell is slated to appear in Mecklenburg County General District Court in the morning on Thursday, Sept. 4.

In the evening on Tuesday, Sept. 2, police found the vehicle Glidewell was believed to be driving at the time of the shooting, though Glidewell was reportedly at large and considered "armed and dangerous" by police until he was taken into custody.

This comes after Virginia State Police were notified at 3:47 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 28, of a shooting along I-85 northbound at mile marker 5 in Mecklenburg County.

Troopers found a Honda Civic that had gone off the right side of the road and stopped in a culvert.

The driver, later identified as Bates, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police.