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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Alabama Police In Hostage Standoff With Suspect In Fatal School Bus Shooting, Kidnapping

The Alabama man police say shot and killed a school bus driver Tuesday in an attempt to kidnap a 6-year-old boy has been hunkered down for hours with the child in an underground bunker on his remote property, The Dothan Eagle, a local newspaper, reported.

An Alabama legislator says the boy has been able to receive medicine and watch TV.

State Rep. Steve Clouse said Wednesday he met with authorities and visited the family of the boy.

Clouse described the standoff as a "static situation" and "a waiting game."

The paper reported that neighbors in Midland City, which is in south Alabama, identified the suspect as Jimmy Lee Dykes, 65. Police have not officially released the suspect's identity.

Neighbors, however, say Dykes, a retired truck driver, is known as a menacing figure who once beat a dog to death with a lead pipe, threatened to shoot children for setting foot on his property and patrolled his yard at night with a flashlight and a shotgun.
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7 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 30, 2013 at 4:44 PM

    Well stay off his property. What hard to understand?

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 30, 2013 at 4:52 PM

    This will NOT be the guns fault. It will be the hermits fault!!

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  3. AnonymousJanuary 30, 2013 at 5:12 PM

    You do notice only 2 LEO's and 7 military right.....right!

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  4. AnonymousJanuary 30, 2013 at 5:12 PM

    He probably doesn't have a computer and can't use the comments section of a local blog as a social outlet.

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  5. AnonymousJanuary 30, 2013 at 6:23 PM

    Criminals need to be in jail not walking the streets! Especially criminals with a mental history. You can't force them to take their meds.

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  6. AnonymousJanuary 31, 2013 at 4:25 AM

    You mean the military with the ballistic shields that say "State Trooper"?

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  7. AnonymousJanuary 31, 2013 at 8:43 AM

    6:23-I agree,but the # of people in the US who actually need to be in jail is staggering.We already have the highest per capita prison population of any country on earth.The Dep of Corrections (in general) may be the largest business on earth.Unfortunately we need even more prisons to hold even more creeps like this guy.

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