Manhunt underway for armed Kentucky highway gunman

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Authorities are searching for 32-year-old suspect Joseph Couch who allegedly shot five people on a rural part of Interstate 75 in southeastern Kentucky.

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  1. how many nuts are out here with guns?

  2. America is trash.

  3. Usual suspects when it comes to random mass shootings = whites

    Usual suspects when it comes to gang targeted violence= black

    There, no need to get your feelings hurt. Both sides are fkd..

  4. Same people always.

  5. Looting = black
    Shooting = white

  6. Nah he probably gone, why still search the area

  7. The guy buys an AR-15 without sighting in the rifle and starts shooting the rifle right out of the box long distances. If wasn’t luck that no one was killed, the guy was incompetent with firearms; most crazy people used the AR-15 close range.

  8. “…AR-15-STYLE WEAPON AND LOADED MAGAZINES FOUND IN WOODS…they saw somebody run to the woods. No shirt, sweating profusely…” city people running in the woods for their lives will often drop their heavy loads and remove clothing when they get hot forgetting that at night it gets cold, they have no outdoor experience.

  9. Another deranged caucasian with a gun No surprise.

  10. Usual suspects

  11. That's interesting. He looks like a white dude. But Republicans and the Low-IQ Trump Cult keep telling me that it is illegal immigrants committing all of the crimes in America. Oh dear. Not sure what to believe anymore. Oh dear.

  12. ~DA AWAKEN OF DA CELLZ ~

  13. America the war zone.

  14. Average white male behavior

  15. SHOCKER! Cult-right, white tRumpster fire. Nono. Amerikkka doesn't need gun control. Fcking 🤡

  16. I’m calling dibs on his dogs. Coonhounds need their belly rubs.

  17. Why Americans like to shoot each other?

  18. Magat cult is protecting him

  19. Usual suspect white middle class gun nut

  20. Wilson Matthew Hernandez Sharon Rodriguez Anthony

  21. They need LAPD who is more trained in handling all types of situations.These small town cops are completely lost.

  22. My 7 Possible Theories: Why Law Enforcement Can’t Find The Suspect yet:

    *The Suspect left his weapon near the scene for 2 possible reasons:

    (1) He left the weapon to go off and commit suicide, because, he’d rather die than spend life in prison. I find that hard to believe given his qualifications: background in the military, a National Guard.

    (OR)

    (2) The Suspect deliberately left his weapon near the scene so law enforcement would find it, so they would think he is still in that area. So, while they waste time looking for him in this wooded area, he has already stolen a vehicle and is long out of the county. This guy was a national guard and worked in the military, which means he has excellent survival skills, use to dealing with the natural elements in rough terrain. That is if he is even in the woods.

    (OR)

    (3) He is in the woods and is already dead for the following 4 reasons:

    1. he committed suicide, not to clear his conscience, but to avoid prison or

    2. he was attacked by a pack of coywolves and all the evidence is fully digested for except the rifle, ammunition, bag of supplies, or

    3. he stopped to take a drink at a pond, in the woods where a 10 ft python ate him, then minutes later both were eaten by a 13ft alligator. Background details: Both of these exotic creatures were illegally smuggled into Kentucky years ago from the Florida, Everglade. The owners, unknown to each other, at some point released their pet into the wild.

    OR

    (4) The suspect possibly belongs to a far-right-extremist group. Part of his initiation was to carry out a terrorist mass-shouting. It was already prearranged for him to leave the weapon near the scene as a deliberate distraction to throw law enforcement off course. After the mass-shooting he was conveniently picked up and transported to the group’s secret compound. He is already in a completely different state, and well hidden. Hopefully this is not correct.

    (OR)

    (5) The suspect forced himself into the car occupied by someone on a road and forced them to drive him away. He is hiding out in their dwelling which is nowhere near the woods

    (OR)

    (6) The suspect was in the woods, but hid in the back of one of the many camping trailers, or trucks coming in and out of the woods daily, unknown to the driver and passenger. They drove out the woods, after reaching a certain distance, unknown to them he jumped out without being seen and then possibly may have broke into a vacant vehicle and is now in a different state.

    (OR)

    (7) He lifted the lid on a manhole and he is making his way through a network of underground tunnels. He is no longer in the county. Remember, these are just possible theories, which means not proven to be true. Let’s hope law enforcement finds the suspect(s) soon.

  23. Goobers with guns. 🪕

  24. In Republican land, JD Vance calls shooting is Fact of Life… NRA says any good guy with gun can take down a bad guy with gun

  25. Usual suspects

  26. Sweating, running shirtless into the woods? Sounds like there could be a "meth"od to this guy's madness.

  27. Good luck trying to find him there. So easy to hide. Nothing but mountains and forests. I grew up There and ohio

  28. America going to crap .
    Everyone knows it too

  29. Red state problems.

  30. Takeing away guns won’t solve anything in fact it would probably start a civil war, what would help to resolve this issue would be more funding for mental hospitals and better help programs. But we have long been told these days would come. We are truly living in the end times.

  31. Try that in a small town huh?

  32. This is nonsense.
    Goober is in Tennessee by now.

  33. Makes no sense how they can’t find this guy in a wooded area when we have heat seeking drones

  34. Is bot all you got when confronted with facts @skepticmind4859•54 😅

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