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.

An initial DNA test on remains believed to be that of alleged I-75 shooter Joseph Couch was inconclusive, but a self-inflicted gunshot was the cause of death.

The Kentucky State Medical Examiner's Office will now try another testing method to identify the remains, officials said Thursday.

The Kentucky manhunt for the accused interstate-shooter has ended, but authorities are still trying to positively identify the body found that is believed to be Joseph Couch.

Kentucky State Police Commissioner Phillip Burnett Jr. It was discovered by two troopers and two civilians in a "deep brush" behind the exit, Burnett said at a news conference Wednesday night.Start the day smarter.

Police on Wednesday said they discovered a body believed to be that of a fugitive suspected of shooting and wounding five people in cars traveling along a Kentucky highway on Sept. 7, an outburst that led to a manhunt through rugged,

A Kentucky couple spent six days looking for a body believed to be the highway shooting suspect that authorities have been hunting for over a week — and eventually found it by following circling vultures,