SEP 9, 2024
Joseph A. Couch, was first named as a person of interest and later as a suspect in the shooting after authorities said they recovered his SUV on a service road near the crime scene.
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“I’m going to kill a lot of people. Well try at least,” Joseph Couch, 32, wrote in the text message, according to the warrant affidavit filed in court. In a separate text message, Couch wrote, “I’ll kill myself afterwards,” the affidavit says.
The Lexington Herald-Leader identified
the woman who received Couch’s messages as his ex-wife. ...
Investigators say suspected shooter Joseph Couch warned a woman of his plan just prior to the shooting on I-75 Saturday.
www.courier-journal.com
After receiving the message, the woman contacted law enforcement and was interviewed at approximately 1:30 a.m. Sunday.
A grueling manhunt stretche into a third day Monday for a suspect in an interstate shooting that struck 12 vehicles and wounded five people in Kentucky.
www.kcra.com
The affidavit, written by Capt. Richard Dalrymple of the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office, said that before authorities received the first report of the shooting about 5:30 p.m. Saturday, a dispatcher in Laurel County received a call from a woman who told them Couch had sent her the text messages at 5:03 p.m.
The man suspected of opening fire on a highway in Kentucky sent a text message vowing to ''kill a lot of people'' less than 30 minutes before he shot and wounded five people on Interstate 75, authorities said in an arrest warrant.
www.startribune.com
In response to that call, police initiated a tracker on Couch's cellphone but location wasn't received until 6:53 p.m., the affidavit states, almost 90 minutes after the highway shooting.