As authorities make the slow trek through the thickly-wooded areas around Daniel Boone National Forest, many schools stayed shuttered and residents remain on edge. With the manhunt now into its fourth day, police and private donations have been pooled to offer $35,000 in reward money to anyone offering information leading to Couch’s arrest.
Officials are hoping to apply steady pressure to Couch, as one Kentucky State Trooper Scottie Pennington put it.
"There's so many people that's got eyes on this investigation — around the world — that by now we should have got a pretty good tip that he has exited the woods," Pennington told reporters Tuesday. "We have not got that."
Information about the suspect’s past and actions leading up to the shooting have emerged since the investigation began – showing he was a member of the Army Reserves. According to an affidavit, Couch reportedly told the mother of his child in a text message the night of the shooting that he planned to “kill a lot of people” and then himself.
Couch is charged with five counts of attempted murder and five counts of first-degree assault, a list that’s likely to grow if he is found alive.
