A manhunt is underway after multiple people were shot on a highway near London, Kentucky, on Saturday.
The incident occurred at approximately 18:00 local time (22:00 GMT), when police received a report that shots were fired at a vehicle near Interstate 75.
London Mayor Randall Wedel said seven people were injured in the incident.
He said not all of those injuries were gunshot wounds and no one died.
The Laurel County Sheriff’s Office has named 32-year-old Joseph A Couch as a suspect and is warning the public that he is considered armed and dangerous.
According to local media reports, the shooting may have been fired from woods or an interchange near the highway.
At around 21:30 local time, Mayor Randall said in a video posted on Facebook: “The suspects have not been arrested yet, but they are looking for them.”
“Where they are right now is some rugged terrain and a lot of tree lines,” he said.
Christina DiNoto, who was driving on Interstate 75 with a friend at the time of the shooting, told CNN it was “like a rock went through my back window,” causing the Her ears hurt.
“We look at each other and think, ‘Is that a gunshot?’ And then we’re like, ‘No, that’s not a gunshot.
Just an hour and a half later, she said, they learned it was a shooting.
Late Friday, the Mount Vernon Fire Department said a stretch of highway near where the shooting occurred had reopened after being closed for about three hours.
A spokesman for the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington told CBS News, the BBC’s U.S. news partner, that the center has admitted at least two patients from the incident so far but did not disclose their conditions.
Kentucky State Police spokesman Trooper Scotty Pennington urged residents in the area to stay indoors.
The public has been warned not to approach persons of interest.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives also confirmed its involvement in the search.
Earlier, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear wrote on social media that law enforcement had “closed the interstate in both directions near where the shooting occurred.”
He said the area should be avoided and urged the public to “keep everyone involved in their prayers.”
London is a small city of approximately 8,000 residents located near the Daniel Boone National Forest.
