Important Takeaways:

• A Kentucky couple have said a “date night idea” unfolded into a multi-day bounty hunt that led them to the body of a suspected gunman.
• The body is believed to be that of Joseph Couch, wanted for a shooting rampage on an interstate highway earlier this month. No formal identification has yet been made.
• Police scoured through dense rural brush for 11 days in search of Couch, and offered a $35,000 (£26,000) reward for information leading to his capture.
• Fred and Sheila McCoy had been live-streaming over a period of six days when they made their discovery.
• At about the same time as the McCoys stumbled upon the body, two Kentucky state police troopers had also been drawn to the site by the smell and the sight of circling scavengers.
• In a statement on Wednesday, the Laurel County Sheriff’s Office said it had located a body presumed to belong to Couch.
• The state medical examiner’s office in Frankfort is conducting an autopsy to confirm it is him.
• The manhunt sparked fear among the local community, with several school districts cancelling classes and business owners locking their doors.
• The McCoys have said they joined the search both for a piece of the reward and to bring a sense of normalcy back to the community.
• “We are very confident that this brings closure to the search for Joseph Couch,” police commissioner Phillip Burnett Jr said.
• He confirmed the McCoys would receive a full reward.

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