A gunman shot a state trooper during a traffic stop, carjacked a vehicle then drove to a church where he killed two women and wounded 2 men on Sunday, Lexington police said.

The episodes, which left the shooter dead, started with a traffic stop near an airport and ended at a church in Lexington, Ky., where four people were shot, the authorities said.

Two women were killed in a shooting rampage that began after a state trooper was shot and wounded, authorities said.