An initial DNA test of a body believed to belong to Joseph Couch, the suspected gunman behind southern Kentucky's Sept. 7 mass shooting that left five people injured, was inconclusive, officials said Thursday.

When a gunman perched atop a cliff’s ledge opened fire on a dozen cars on Kentucky’s Interstate 75, wounding five people, it permeated surrounding communities with fear – and sent one couple into the woods to join the dayslong manhunt for the assailant.

Investigators believe they have found the body of a man they say shot five people and a dozen cars on an interstate highway in Kentucky this month, state police said Wednesday – ending an 11-day manhunt that stretched deep into the sprawling Daniel Boone National Forest and put surrounding communities on edge.

The couple called themselves “bounty hunters on the hunt.” A day before they found the body of 32-year-old Joseph Couch, who opened fire Sept. 7 on a busy stretch of interstate near Exit 49, about nine miles north of London, the couple told Kentucky state troopers their goal: get Couch off the streets and collect the reward money.

Authorities say a body has been found near the Kentucky site where a gunman opened fire on an interstate highway, hitting a dozen vehicles and wounding five people.

A body has been found near where Kentucky authorities spent days searching for a suspected gunman accused of injuring several people traveling on an interstate. Wednesday evening, Kentucky State Police said on X that troopers located a body near Exit 49 on I-75,