Manhunt for gunman as 'vehicles fired upon' in Kentucky

A manhunt is underway successful Kentucky aft a fig of radical were changeable on a road adjacent the metropolis of London connected Saturday.

The Laurel County Sheriff's Office has named 32-year-old Joseph A Couch arsenic a idiosyncratic of interest, and warned the nationalist helium is considered equipped and dangerous.

The incidental began astatine astir 18:00 section clip (22:00 GMT), erstwhile constabulary responded to a study of vehicles being fired upon adjacent Interstate 75.

According to section media, shots whitethorn person been fired from a wooded country adjacent to the highway, oregon from an overpass.

It is not yet known if determination are immoderate fatalities, oregon however galore radical person been injured.

In an earlier statement, Laurel County Sheriff's Office said that "numerous persons" had been shot.

A spokesperson for the University of Kentucky Medical Center successful Lexington told the BBC's US quality partner, CBS News that it had received astatine slightest 2 patients from the incidental truthful far, but determination was nary connection connected their conditions.

Trooper Scottie Pennington, a Kentucky State Police spokesperson, urged residents successful the country to enactment inside.

Members of the nationalist person been warned not to attack the idiosyncratic of interest.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives besides confirmed it was progressive successful the search.

Earlier, Kentucky's Governor Andy Beshear wrote connected societal media that instrumentality enforcement had "shut the interstate down successful some directions" adjacent to wherever the shooting happened.

He said the country should beryllium avoided, and urged the nationalist to "pray for everyone involved".

London is simply a tiny metropolis of astir 8,000 residents adjacent the Daniel Boone National Forest.