{"id":88785,"date":"2024-09-08T07:03:09","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T07:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/09\/08\/police-launch-manhunt-after-multiple-people-shot-in-us-2\/"},"modified":"2024-09-08T07:03:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-08T07:03:09","slug":"police-launch-manhunt-after-multiple-people-shot-in-us-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/police-launch-manhunt-after-multiple-people-shot-in-us-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Police launch manhunt after multiple people shot in US"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A manhunt is under way in Kentucky after a number of people were shot along a highway near the city of London on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The incident began at about 18:00 local time (22:00 GMT), when police responded to a report of vehicles being fired upon near Interstate 75.<\/p>\n

Seven people have been injured in the incident, according to Mayor Randall Weddle of London.<\/p>\n

He said not all of these injuries were by gunshot, and that no-one has been killed.<\/p>\n

The Laurel County Sheriff\u2019s Office has named 32-year-old Joseph A Couch as a person of interest, and warned the public he is considered armed and dangerous.<\/p>\n

According to local media, shots may have been fired from a wooded area near to the highway, or from an overpass.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe suspect or suspects have not been apprehended at this time, but they are searching for them,\u201d said Mayor Randall in a video posted on Facebook at about 21:30 local time.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere they are currently, that is some rugged terrain and a lot of tree lines,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Speaking to CNN, Christina DiNoto, who was driving on Interstate 75 with a friend at the time of the shooting said \u201cit was like a rock went through my back window\u201d, hurting her ear.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe looked at each other and we were like, \u2018Was that a gunshot?\u2019 And then we\u2019re like, \u2018No, that wasn\u2019t a gunshot.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

She said it was only an hour and a half later they learnt that it had been a shooting.<\/p>\n

Later on Friday, Mount Vernon Fire Department said a section of the highway close to where the shooting happened had reopened, after being closed for about three hours.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington told the BBC\u2019s US news partner, CBS News that it had received at least two patients from the incident so far, but there was no word on their conditions.<\/p>\n

Trooper Scottie Pennington, a Kentucky State Police spokesperson, urged residents in the area to stay inside.<\/p>\n

Members of the public have been warned not to approach the person of interest.<\/p>\n

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives also confirmed it was involved in the search.<\/p>\n

Earlier, Kentucky\u2019s Governor Andy Beshear wrote on social media that law enforcement had \u201cshut the interstate down in both directions\u201d near to where the shooting happened.<\/p>\n

He said the area should be avoided, and urged the public to \u201cpray for everyone involved\u201d.<\/p>\n

London is a small city of about 8,000 residents near the Daniel Boone National Forest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A manhunt is under way in Kentucky after a number of people were shot along a highway near the city of London on Saturday. The incident began at about 18:00 local time (22:00 GMT), when police responded to a report of vehicles being fired upon near Interstate 75. Seven people have been injured in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}