KY I-75 Shooting Person Of Interest Sought, Multiple People Shot: LCSO

LAUREL COUNTY, KY — After multiple people were injured in a shooting on Interstate 75 in Kentucky Saturday night, investigators are looking for a person of interest, the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a Facebook post. The agency didn't share the exact number of victims.

I-75 was closed near exit 49 and U.S. 25, which is about nine miles north of London, because of the active shooter situation earlier Saturday evening, the sheriff’s office wrote.

The interstate is closed from exit 41 to exit 59, WYMT reported.

“Use alternative route(s,)” Mayor Randall Weddle wrote in a Facebook post. “Do not be anywhere in that area. Avoid US Highway 25 as well (as) North and South between London and Livingston.”

The sheriff's office is looking for Joseph A. Couch, who is considered armed and dangerous.

Anyone who knows anything about Couch’s whereabouts shouldn’t approach him and should contact the London-Laurel County 911 Center by calling 911 or 606-878-7000.
Couch, a 32 year old white man, is about 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighs about 154 pounds.

Kentucky State Police Trooper Scottie Pennington said in a Facebook post around 7 p.m.that “the suspect has not been caught at this time. We are urging people to stay inside.”