BOONE COUNTY, Kentucky An Alabama man fatally shot the passenger in his vehicle Thursday morning while driving on an interstate, then called 911 to report what he had just done, law-enforcement officials say. A dispatcher told Tommy Hightower, 32, of Jasper, Ala., to take an exit from Interstate 71, where deputies with the Boone County Sheriff’s Office and emergency workers would be waiting, .
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An Alabama man is dead and another is in police custody after a shooting on Interstate 71 on Thursday morning, officials said.
Boone County Sheriff s Department Lt. Philip Ridgell said a driver, 32-year-old Tommy Hightower, of Jasper, Alabama, called 911 just after 8:30 a.m. to report the shooting.
Dispatchers directed Hightower to pull off the highway at the Vernona exit and into a gas station.
Investigators discovered Hightower had shot his passenger, 36-year-old Girlis Serratt, also of Jasper, Alabama, as they were traveling southbound on the highway, Ridgell said.
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