Kentucky police alerted an “vivacious shooter situation” on Saturday evening proximate Interstate 75 in London, Kentucky, south of Lexington, where “many persons” had been sboiling in traffic.
In a video statement, London mayor Randall Weddle shelp seven people were hurt, but not all of those were wounded by firearmfire. Some of the victims were injured in a vehicle accident, he shelp.
“There are no destopd at this time. No one was ended from this, thankbrimmingy, but we ask that you persist to pray,” Weddle shelp.
The sheriff’s office also proclaimd that a “person of interest” has been identified in connection with the shooting, saying he should be pondered armed and hazardous and people should not approach him.
The incident began equitable before 6pm local time about nine miles outside London, when officers were called for alerts of multiple vehicles being fired at on the interstate in Laurel County, multiple media accounts shelp. The sboilings were alertedly coming from a wooded area or an overpass.
Kentucky state trooper Scottie Pennington wrote on Facebook: “The doubt has not been caught at this time and we are urging people to stay inside.”
Kentucky ruleor Andy Beshear wrote on X: “Kentucky, we are conscious of a shooting on I-75 in Laurel County. Plrelieve dodge the area. We will provide more details once they are useable.”
He also asked that dwellnts, “Plrelieve pray for everyone joind.”
London is a petite city of about 8,000 dwellnts, about 100 miles north-west of the state capital Frankfort.
Reuters and the Associated Press gived to this alert
