Police search for gunman after seven hurt in Kentucky highway shooting

Authorities are looking for a antheral suspected of shooting astatine cars travelling on a agrarian agelong of the I-75 highway.

Police successful the confederate United States authorities of Kentucky are searching for the shooter aft arsenic galore arsenic 7 radical were injured connected a agrarian agelong of a large highway.

They had been driving on the roadworthy conscionable earlier 6pm (10:00 GMT) not acold from London, the town’s mayor, Randall Weddle, said connected Facebook.

Kentucky State Police spokesperson Scottie Pennington said earlier that betwixt 4 and six radical had been hurt.

Local quality presumption WYMT said determination were “multiple terrible injuries” but nary confirmed deaths.

The shooting led to the impermanent closure of Interstate 75, a large north-south road that cuts crossed the eastbound fractional of the US, successful some directions.

Authorities said they were searching for 32-year-old Joseph Couch successful rugged terrain adjacent the highway. Local media said the shots had been fired from a wooded country oregon an overpass.

“Consider equipped and dangerous,” the sheriff’s bureau said successful a Facebook station astir Couch. “Do not effort to approach.”

The incidental comes days aft 2 students and 2 teachers were killed successful a schoolhouse shooting successful Georgia.

A 14-year-old lad has been charged with execution implicit that onslaught while his father, who had allegedly bought the weapon for him arsenic a gift, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and second-degree murder.

Gun violence is communal successful the US, a state wherever determination are much firearms than people.