Randall Lee Smith was released from Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital on Friday afternoon and taken, in police custody, before a Roanoke magistrate, officials said.

Earlier in the day, police charged him with two counts of attempted capital murder, two counts of using a firearm in commission of a felony, possession of a firearm by a felon and grand larceny, according to Lt. Ron Hamlin of the Giles County Sheriff's Office.

Smith, 54, of Pearisburg, was apprehended Tuesday night after he crashed a pickup truck that belonged to one of two fishermen shot earlier that night in the Dismal Creek area of Giles County. Smith, injured in the crash, was hospitalized in Roanoke after being taken into custody as a suspect in the shootings. Doctors placed him on a ventilator until sometime Thursday, Hamlin said.

The site of Tuesday's shootings was not far from the area where, in 1981, Smith killed Susan Ramsay and Robert Mountford Jr., both 27, after encountering them on the Appalachian Trail. Smith served 15 years in prison for the killings and was released in 1996.

The victims in Tuesday's shootings -- Sean Farmer, 33, of Tazewell and Scott Johnston, 37, of Bluefield -- also were taken to Roanoke Memorial.

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