WASHINGTON: A number of folks had been shot alongside a freeway within the southern US state of Kentucky, authorities stated Saturday (Sep 7), as police hunted for a suspect thought of “armed and harmful”.
4 to 6 folks had been shot, Kentucky State Police spokesman Scottie Pennington instructed native media.
There have been “a number of extreme accidents” however no confirmed deaths, native information station WYMT reported, citing the Laurel County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Authorities had been trying to find Joseph Sofa, 32, thought of an individual of curiosity within the taking pictures that closed Interstate 75 in each instructions because of the “energetic shooter state of affairs”.
“Contemplate armed and harmful,” the sheriff’s workplace stated in its Fb publish about Sofa, following its preliminary report of “quite a few individuals” shot.
“Don’t try and strategy.”
“The suspect has not been caught at the moment we’re urging folks to remain inside!” Pennington posted on Fb.
He later instructed the Louisville Courier Journal that “now we have no clue the place (the suspect) is at”.