Couple live streaming search for Kentucky highway shooter aid in discovery of body

Kentucky officials believe they have found the body of the suspected gunman in a highway shooting spree with the help of a couple who were livestreaming their search on YouTube and vultures that were circling the body.

Kentucky officials believe they have found the body of the suspected gunman in a highway shooting spree with the help of a couple who were livestreaming their search on YouTube and vultures that were circling the body.

Officials said two state troopers and two civilians, Fred and Sheila McCoy, were simultaneously searching for the suspect in woods in Laurel County on Wednesday when they ran into one another. After they identified themselves to one another, the group found an unidentified body, believed to be that of Joseph A. Couch.

There were "articles associated with the body" that led officials to believe it's Couch, Kentucky State Police Col. Phillip Burnett Jr. said. An official identification is expected Thursday, officials said, adding that there is no indication yet of how Couch died.

"We're very confident that this brings the closure in a search of Joseph Couch," Burnett said, adding later that "the people of Laurel County can rest easy, much easier, knowing that this manhunt has now come to a conclusion."

Authorities had been searching for Couch, 32, since the Sept. 7 shooting next to Interstate 75, 8 miles north of the small city of London. Five people were seriously injured.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kentucky-manhunt-highway-shooting-rcna170166

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