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| Alabama hostage situation has ended |
| 2013-02-04 |
| After a seven-day standoff, local media report that the hostage situation in Midland City, Alabama has ended. Jimmy Lee Dykes, a 65-year-old Vietnam veteran kidnapped a five-year-old boy from a school bus on Tuesday last week, shooting the bus driver to death in the process, he then held the boy in an underground bunker in his yard for the next six days. The child is reported to be uninjured and is undergoing a standard medical evaluation. Local news station WJHG reported explosions near the site of the crisis while other local media say a coroner has confirmed that Dykes has been killed. The FBI has not discussed a motive for the kidnapping, but neighbors described Dykes as a loner with no children of his own. The 65-year-old was estranged from his family, according to Mel Adams, a Midland City Council member who knew Dykes since they were ages 3 and 4, as quoted by AP. The kidnapperÂ’s neighbors told AP that Dykes once beat a dog to death with a lead pipe, threatened to shoot children for stepping onto his property, and guarded his property at night with a gun and a flashlight. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 Dykes deserved killing |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-02-04 18:17 |