Cops Close In On Kentucky Interstate Mass Shooter

September 9, 2024 Crime, Mass Shootings

The Lexington Courier-Journal reports:

Authorities in Laurel County, Kentucky, believe they have contained the suspect in a shooting that occurred about eight miles north of London on Interstate 75 Saturday evening within their search area, said Gilbert Acciardo, a spokesperson for the Laurel County Sheriff’s Department.

Joseph Couch, the man wanted in connection with the shooting, purchased a gun and about 1,000 rounds of ammunition Saturday morning, prior to the shooting on Interstate 75, officials said late Sunday night.

“He obtained a firearm at a local place here in London,” Laurel County Sheriff John Root said, adding it was a legal purchase. Couch is from the Knox County area and served in the National Guard for four years in an engineer battalion.

The Associated Press reports:

As a grueling manhunt stretched into a third day Monday for a suspect in an interstate shooting that struck 12 vehicles and wounded five people, authorities vowed to keep up a relentless search as the stress level remained high for a rural area where some schools canceled classes.

Authorities have been searching a rugged, hilly area of southeastern Kentucky since Saturday evening, when a gunman began shooting at drivers on Interstate 75 near London, a small city of about 8,000 people located about 75 miles (120 kilometers) south of Lexington.

The search was temporarily suspended once darkness fell Sunday night, but was set to resume Monday morning. “We’re not going to quit until we do lay hands on him,” Laurel County Sheriff John Root said Sunday night.

The five motorists wounded in the shooting are all reported to be in stable condition.



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