From westernjournal.com
The manhunt for the suspect in a Saturday shooting on I-75 in Kentucky remains ongoing Monday.
Multiple cars were hit by bullets Saturday evening, leaving five people wounded, the Louisville Courier-Journal. All are expected to live.
The highway north of London, Kentucky, about 60 miles south of Lexington in western Kentucky, was shut down for several hours in the initial stage of the investigation, which has spread into rugged lands around the highway. Schools in the area have been closed.
Police are searching for Joseph Couch, who bought an AR-15 and 1,000 rounds of ammunition Saturday. Couch’s vehicle was found near the scene of the shooting. Although police believe they have Couch contained, they said the rugged nature of the land makes it hard to find him.
Laurel County Sheriff’s Captain Richard Dalrymple said shots were fired about “30 feet down from the top of a cliff” near the highway.
“This is not a road rage incident,” Deputy Gilbert Acciardo, a representative of the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office said, according to WLWT-TV. “We still believe we only have one individual that is involved.”
Acciardo called the shooting a “random act” of violence, according to The Associated Press.
Dalrymple said 20 to 30 rounds were fired in the 5:30 p.m. incident, with 12 cars stuck.
Acciardo said the shooting was a “planned event” but police had no idea what the motive was, according to the Courier-Journal.
“We want to get this guy because he’s shot at cars, he’s shown that he’s capable, and that means he’s capable again,” Acciardo said of Couch.
Laurel County Sheriff John Root said officials are asking Couch to surrender.
“We would ask that he would give himself up,” Root said. “We’re not going to quit until we lay hands on him.”
Shooting victim Rebecca Puryear, 28, said she did not know at first shehad been hit, according to CNN.
“It sounded like a tire had blown, so I asked my husband, and he said it was gunshots,” Puryear, who was riding with her husband and 4-year-old son, said.
“The next thing I know, my ears are ringing. I look over and my (passenger-side) window is busted and there’s a bullet hole, she said, noting that she did not know she was shot until they pulled off the highway.
“I looked down and was just pouring blood,” Puryear said. “I had to try to keep it together because if I freaked out, they would’ve freaked out.”
Puryear said the bullet that hit her struck her right arm, passed through her chest and exited her body through her left arm. a bullet entered through the passenger-side window and struck her right arm.
“We’re blessed that I’m still alive. I’m a walking miracle. It still does not feel real to me, even though I’m sitting here with gaping wounds,” she said.
In March, a charge against Couch of making a terroristic threat was dismissed, according to NBC.
People have just gone crazy! Come Lord Jesus, come.
Sadly, what goes around comes around even with a time delay of years. Nations are judged not by all it’s people but by the majority. The good ones suffer due to the bad ones.
In ancient Israel on Yom kippur, if God accepted the atonement, it was based on the majority as no way 100% would be repentant.
Today with the 4 horse apocalypse flag seen everywhere, america soon will have 1000 October 7 attacks. Before in Christ, I grew up as an American Jew and was constantly mocked for most Jews in the Holocaust going to the slaughter with little resistance. That really is true in most cases. But it’s a nasty thing to say to a kid who wasn’t there.
But this generation of mine is going to the slaughter too with little resistance.
As crazy as it is, this is nothing compared to what is to come. When the Restrainer is removed, there will be no light to guide those in darkness. All hell will break loose as our Lord Jesus opens the seals and pours out His wrath and judgments on the unbelieving world . This is what they shall reap for those who have rejected the ONLY way for salvation. As much as I would rather have God hurry up and get this over with, His grace is overwhelming and many are still coming to faith which is all to His glory. God has placed us here for such a time as this, to share the Light with a world that is growing darker by each day. May we stand firm and be willing to drink the cup that He drank, whether rejection, persecution, or suffering and proclaim our Lord Jesus to a lost and hurting world.
Amen!!