Kentucky State Police troopers and two civilians on Wednesday came across a deceased person police believe to be 32-year-old Joseph Couch, police said.

Police on Wednesday said they had discovered a body believed to be that of a fugitive suspected of shooting and wounding five people in cars traveling along a Kentucky highway on Sept. 7, an outburst that led to a manhunt through rugged,

The suspect accused of shooting five people on Interstate 75 near London, Kentucky, on Saturday was previously arrested this year after police say he threatened to kill a man and his dog.