(NewsNation) — A witness of the Kentucky shooting on I-75 Saturday has detailed her version of events to NewsNation Live.
Christina DiNoto was traveling from Rochester, New York, to Knoxville, Tennessee, when she heard a loud bang while driving in Kentucky.
DiNoto believes bullets ricocheted off her vehicle and only “divine intervention” stopped her and a friend from being injured or hurt.
“I was traveling in the middle lane, and all of a sudden, out of nowhere, we heard a loud explosion. It was so loud that we both jumped in our seats,” DiNoto said.
Authorities are hunting suspect Joseph Couch, 32, for allegedly shooting five people. Seven individuals are hurt, while police believe Couch is hiding in remote southern Kentucky.
“Initially, it sounded to me like a rock, maybe flew through my back window. So I glanced back, there was no damage to any windows, and my friend Jeremy said that sounded like a gunshot,” DiNoto said
“I’ve been around gunfire before, and that’s what it definitely sounded like. Then a few minutes later, we saw just dozens of police and ambulances flying in the northbound lane on I-75 so we knew that something had happened, but we didn’t know what.
“Then we got to our destination in Knoxville, we got out, and I discovered on my car, on the rim of the tire, there was a huge indent I looked like ricochet from a bullet to me.”