LONDON, Ky. (NEXSTAR) — More than a dozen school districts shut down Monday across a wide swath of southeastern Kentucky as a grueling search stretched into a third day for a gunman who opened fire on an interstate highway and wounded five people over the weekend.

Searches have been combing the rugged, hilly area since Saturday evening, when a gunman began shooting at drivers on Interstate 75 near London, a small Kentucky city of about 8,000 people about 75 miles (120 kilometers) south of Lexington.

Kentucky State Police Trooper Scottie Pennington implored residents to report suspicious-looking activities, and to be on the lookout for anything captured by home surveillance cameras or hunting devices.

"Please look after your neighbors," Pennington said during a news conference Monday. "Make sure you're heard from them."

Pennington added that the suspect, 32-year-old Joseph A. Couch, has been added to the National Crime Information Center database. "So when [other agencies] do see him, they say, 'This guy fits the description,' they use caution and they can run him, and maybe that's how we find him."

The NCIC database can be accessed by law enforcement throughout the United States, as well as in Canada and Puerto Rico.

London Mayor Randall Weddle told Nexstar's WDKY that a $10,000 reward is offered for information leading to the arrest of Couch, in addition to Crime Stoppers’ $5,000 reward.

“We’re not going to quit until we do lay hands on him,” Laurel County Sheriff John Root said Sunday night.

Couch was named a suspect in the shooting after authorities recovered his SUV on a service road near the crime scene. They later found a semiautomatic weapon nearby that they believe was used in the shooting, said Deputy Gilbert Acciardo, a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office.

• A photo of the silver SUV which law enforcement said is connected with the suspect was found at the scene of the shooting. (Laurel County Sheriff’s Office)
• Deputy Gilbert Acciardo, Public information Officer with the Laurel County Sheriff's Office, gives an update on the progress of the search for the suspect linked to........
  

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