LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Louisville Metro Police is investigating after a man was found shot inside his crashed car on Interstate 264 Thursday afternoon.
Police said a car was traveling east on I-264, otherwise known as the Watterson Expressway, when the driver, later identified as 36-year-old William McPheeters, somehow lost control of the car and flipped, hitting two other vehicles.
This happened near the Breckenridge Lane exit.
MetroSafe said this happened around 4:34 p.m., and the interstate was shut down around 4:46 p.m.
Investigators said no one in either of the vehicles struck by the flipped car were injured, but the driver in the flipped car had a fatal gunshot wound.
Several good Samaritans and first responders attempted to save McPheeters, but he died at the scene.
The Homicide Unit has ruled this as a death investigation, and LMPD's Traffic Unit is assisting as well.
All lanes were reopened four hours later.
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