I got something guys.
In 2013 a hunter killed a gray wolf in Munfordville, Kentucky thinking it was a coyote. They were thought to be regionally extinct and the man wasn't charged.
Munfordville isn't too far from Louisville, about 1.5 hours away.
Pics of the wolf in the article
https://earthfirstjournal.org/newswire/2013/08/19/wild-wolf-in-kentucky-first-in-150-years-killed-by-hunter/