Name: Suspect named in Kentucky highway shooter, manhunt ongoing
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this breaking news right now in Kentucky, where police are in a desperate manhunt after a shooting spree on an interstate.

They're looking for this man, Joseph Couch.

This afternoon, investigators say they found his car and the suspected weapon.

R. 15 authorities say couch shot into cars as they passed by on Interstate 75 in rural Laurel County.

We just heard this deafening loud sound, and it sounded like like a rock went through my back window, and our ears were ringing, and we just looked at each other and we were like, Was that a gun shot?

And then we're like, That can't be a gun shot, you know, because we're driving down the highway.

Um, and there was a white truck that was next to us in the right hand lane, and all of a sudden he slowed down and pulled off to the shoulder, and we thought maybe it was his tire had blown out or something, but it was much louder than a tire blowing out.

Mina was tracking the latest developments in this case.

Fred, we're starting to hear from some of the victims, and you can just imagine how chaotic this scene was.

You're driving along a highway, you're moving at fast speed, and all of a sudden you hear gunshots.

And my colleague, Jillian Sykes, actually just spoke with one of the survivors of this gunfire.

Her name is Rebecca Poirier, and she's a 28 year old woman who was driving her car along with her husband and her four year old son.

And what you're seeing there is the picture of her car with the window shattered after a bullet pierced through it and injured her in the arm.

She was already released from the hospital, but she's one of the five people that were injured during this shooting last night.

Now, as you said, the manhunt for this suspect continues, and police have identified Joseph Couch.

They believe that he is the suspect behind this incident, and they are asking people in this community, in the city of London, to remain vigilant.

They believe that they have him cordoned to an area where they are currently searching, but they're open to the possibility that he may be elsewhere by now.

This happened last night, and they had to stop the search in the evening hours because of the dark and just how difficult this area is.

A lot of trees, a lot of shrub, not a whole lot of light in there for you to be searching at night.

I want you to listen to the Laurel County Sheriff's describing some of the injuries that this suspect allegedly caused last night during the shooting.

There was an individual that was shot in the face.

There was another individual that was shot in the arm.

They were very significant, very severe injuries.

We didn't have a fatality, but we certainly had some very serious injuries that will affect these people for the rest of their life.

I'm sure it's it's incredible to hear just how lucky everyone got last night.

Police believe that was the weapon that this man used in this shooting.

They also recovered his vehicle along with the gun case that was inside the vehicle.

They believe that he is armed and also learned in the last hour, Fred, that the family of this suspect is cooperating.

They live elsewhere outside this county, but the sheriff's office did say that they are cooperating.

He said they have a big task ahead of them in the next several hours.

They don't want the sun to go down once again without this person being caught on their out there working every possible angle.

They're using canines, drones, a very wooded area, a difficult to search area, but trying to keep the community, uh, at calm so that they know that this search is ongoing.

Let's talk more now on this man hunt with CNN law enforcement contributor and retired supervisory special agent for the FBI.

Gloria reported in a R 15, which they believe might have been involved here.

Um, now how do they go about tracing for some steps toward their suspect?

I remember back in the FBI when we were looking for Eric Robert Rudolph for over a year in woods similar to this.

What you have to consider is that if he had one gun, he's got another gun.

If he was shooting at ambush style at cars before he would shoot ambush style at officers.

So you have a you have a cordon and they say they believe he's within that area, which is pretty impressive if that's true, that they could be sure of that.

But if that's the case, they have to start moving in on him and closing the circle in and each foot you go, you risk, um, you risk losing officers.

Um, beyond that, you're talking to anybody.

He knows a family, anybody, any friends who could tell you why this happened and where he might go.

And besides the terrain being among the challenges I covered for a very long time in the Nantahala Forest there for that search for Eric Rudolph reporting on you and your colleagues as well.

But talk to me about the other challenges here when law enforcement is urging people to stay inside.

At the same time, they do need the public's cooperation to be able to report anything suspicious that they see.

And the problem here is like with Rudolph, uh, they go into people's homes.

That's one of the things they're gonna be looking for.

The law enforcement is if any cars are missing, any trucks are missing.

Um, so when you have people stuck in their homes, it's not easy for them to obviously they're not out and about seeing things.

But at the same time, they have to protect themselves in their home and be vigilant and ready to call because this person, if they're alive and we don't know, but they're going to need food, they're gonna need water and they're going to probably go to a more populated area to get that again.

The suspect is being identified as a joseph couch.

Talk to me to about some of the assets that law enforcement has.

I understand they brought in a drone to help in the search.

But as you know, from from that kind of forested area, um, it's very difficult to look down, see down.

I mean, the FBI police departments, we now have, uh, we now have, uh, clear.

We have all these things that are pretty much blocked by trees.

The drones can operate, but in a forested area, they're limited in their effectiveness.

And so what you're going to be doing is is looking at night, especially you're going to be looking within the forest horizontally trying to pick up silhouette heat silhouettes.

The problem there is there are deer, there are rabbits.

The first time you see something like that, you don't even believe how many heat sources you see.

So it becomes just a bigger haystack in a smaller needle.

Oh, I remember that was a gigantic obstacle as well.

An observation during that search for Eric Rudolph in the Nantahala Forest.

The Laurel County Sheriff's Department saying the search for the gunman they say opened fire on Interstate 75 in Kentucky will be temporarily suspended at dark.

Again, the biggest problem that we have up there is the remoteness of the area.

Uh, it's already starting to get a little bit dark.

I'm sure we're gonna we're gonna go on till dark tonight.

CNN Senior National Security Analyst Juliet Kayyem.

Juliet, I know you were with us last night as this was all unfolding.

Now we're getting a little bit more information.

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