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.

Kentucky State Police Commissioner Phillip Burnett Jr. said confirmation that the body was the alleged shooter, Joseph Couch, 32, would have to await an autopsy Thursday in Frankfort. Burnett said a weapon was found near the body but did not offer details on how long officials think the body had been there or how Couch died.