A judge in a rural Kentucky county was shot and killed in his courthouse chambers Thursday, and the local sheriff was charged with murder, police said.

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.

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.

Kentucky State Police believe the body found Wednesday in Laurel County where five people were injured in a shooting on Interstate 75, is of the suspected gunman Joseph Couch.

Police continue to search for a gunman who shot at motorists on Interstate 75 in southeastern Kentucky on Saturday afternoon, injuring at least seven people and hitting as many as a dozen vehicles.

A manhunt is underway early Sunday as police searched for a gunman in a rural area of southeastern Kentucky who is believed to have shot and wounded five people near Interstate 75.

Judge Kevin Mullins, 54, was fatally shot in a courthouse at Whitesburg, Kentucky, on Thursday afternoon, according to Kentucky State Police.

Kentucky State Police troopers and two civilians on Wednesday came across a deceased person police believe to be 32-year-old Joseph Couch, police said.

A body was found off a Kentucky highway. Police believe it's Joseph Couch, who is suspected of shooting five people almost two weeks earlier.

A Kentucky district court judge was shot and killed Thursday afternoon after an argument with a local sheriff, law-enforcement officials said. Kevin Mullins, a 54-year-old district county judge, was shot multiple times inside the Letcher County Courthouse,