CHRISTIAN COUNTY, KY — A man was flown to a Nashville hospital early Tuesday after showing up at a local hospital with a gunshot wound following a crash on Interstate 69. The Christian County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were called around midnight to a wreck with possible injuries on the northbound lanes just before Exit 9.
As deputies responded, they were told that a man had already arrived at a hospital with a gunshot wound. Investigators later found a northbound truck connected to the crash and said it had at least four bullet holes in the driver’s door.
Deputies link the gunshot wound to the crash scene
Officials have not publicly said exactly how the crash and shooting happened, but the timing prompted deputies to treat the events as connected. The sheriff’s office said the truck they found had been traveling northbound before the wreck.
The damage to the driver’s door suggests shots were fired at close range or from nearby, but deputies have not described the circumstances in more detail. They also have not said whether anyone else was hurt in the incident.
Northbound traffic near Exit 9 was affected by the investigation
The crash site was on I-69 northbound just before Exit 9, a stretch that deputies expected to keep blocked while they investigated. Traffic disruptions were tied not only to the wreck itself, but also to the need to process the scene connected to the reported shooting…