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I-75 shut down in Laurel County after ‘numerous’ people shot, sheriff says

Gov. Andy Beshear asked people to avoid the area, and the Kentucky Department of Transportation announced that many roads in the area were closed.

The Laurel County Sheriff’s Office said “numerous” people were shot near Interstate 75 Saturday night. “I-75 is closed at mile marker/Exit 49, and U.S.

25, nine miles north of London due to an active shooter situation,” the agency said in a Facebook post just before 7 p.m. Both directions of the interstate were closed, Gov.

Andy Beshear said in a post on the social media platform X. “Kentucky, we are aware of a shooting on I-75 in Laurel County,” the post stated. “Law enforcement has shut the interstate down in both directions at exit 49.

Please avoid the area. We will provide more details once they are available.” The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet said both northbound and southbound lanes of I-75 were closed between Exit 41 and Exit 59 and that U.

S. 25 was closed nine miles north of London, as well as Ky. 909.

there was an active shooting in London..