Police have launched a search for the main suspect in a shooting that injured five people near a highway in Kentucky, authorities in the southeastern state said Saturday.
The shooting also caused a car accident that left other people injured, according to the mayor of London, Kentucky, Randall Weddle, who did not specify their number or their condition.
The gunman appeared to have aimed his shots, which were not random, he told the Louisville Courier Journal, a local radio station that said the shooting was triggered “by an altercation between two cars.”
The shooting occurred in Laurel County, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) south of the Kentucky city of Lexington. The gunman opened fire from a wooded area off Interstate 75, a major north-south highway that spans half the United States. There were “several serious injuries” but no deaths have been confirmed, local news station WYMT reported, citing the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office.
Suspect on the run
A 32-year-old man, Joseph Couch, is suspected of being the shooter. The sheriff’s office said the suspect appeared “armed and dangerous” and the highway was closed in both directions to traffic.
Kentucky State Police spokesman Scottie Pennington told the Louisville Courier Journal he had “no…
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