A grueling manhunt stretches into a third day Monday for a suspect in an interstate shooting that struck 12 vehicles and wounded five people in Kentucky. Authorities are vowing to keep up a relentless search as the stress level remains high in a rural area where some schools canceled classes.
Laurel County sheriff John Root gives an update at the London Community Center in London, Ky., Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024, on the efforts to find the suspect in the Saturday shooting at Interstate 75 near Livingston, Ky. Laurel County Sheriff’s Captain Richard Dalrymple gives an update at the London Community Center in London, Ky., Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024, on the efforts to find the suspect in the Saturday shooting at Interstate 75 near Livingston, Ky.
“We’re not going to quit until we do lay hands on him,” Laurel County Sheriff John Root said Sunday night. “As this continues, it becomes more stressful for the community, it becomes more stressful for the officers that are there because we’re looking ... and we’re trying to find him, and we haven’t found him,” he said.
With the gunman still at large, numerous area school districts canceled classes for Monday. Pennington urged area residents to lock doors, keep porch lights on and monitor security cameras. The search was focused on a remote area about eight miles north of London.“We’re doing everything that we can do,” Root said, adding, ”Just be confident.”
Couch most recently lived in Woodbine, a small community about 20 miles south of the shooting scene. Acciardo said authorities found his abandoned vehicle Saturday and then an AR-15 rifle on Sunday in a wooded area near a highway where “he could have shot down upon the interstate.” A phone believed to be Couch’s was also found by law enforcement, but the battery had been taken out.
“We were listening to the police scanners all night,” he said, adding they heard sirens and saw a helicopter overhead.
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