S. Ala. child remains hostage in underground bunker 1 day after bus driver killed

[East_TN_Patriot]

A 6-year-old kindergartner remains a hostage more than a day after his abductor boarded a school bus in the southeast Alabama town of Midland City, fatally shot the bus driver and took the boy to a nearby underground bunker.

http://m.wlox.com/ms/p/a3/40/view.m?id=124279&storyId=20791656&news=Top%20Stories&news2=Main

[monkeylizard]

This has been going on since yesterday afternoon. I'm surprised I'm not seeing more coverage on the national news.

[Chucktshoes]

This has been going on since yesterday afternoon. I'm surprised I'm not seeing more coverage on the national news.

Did the abductor use an AR-15?

[mikegideon]

Did the abductor use an AR-15?

 

Doesn't make the news unless it helps the agenda

Edited January 31, 2013 by mikegideon

[strickj]

Whoops

 

[TMF]

[quote name="strickj" post="900748" timestamp="1359609105"]Whoops   [/quote] I don't get it.

[c.a.willard]

TMF,  I think strickJ thought it looked like the guy was taking a leak on the tires.  But unless urine comes out his bellybutton his hands are in the wrong position.

[Dolomite`s Breezy]

Hate to say it but .. the likelyhood the child is still alive is pretty slim.I hope he is..

 

The guy is deranged and he already killed one person.

 

I hope the little guy makes it out alive tho..Horrible situation:(

[Jesse]

I knew school buses would be next. They make like 20 stops 2 times a day. Easy targets.

Gonna have to have armed security.

[Jesse]

Wont be long before a teen brings a gun on a bus and tells the cops he just wanted to protect himself.

[Patton]

Wont be long before a teen brings a gun on a bus and tells the cops he just wanted to protect himself.

Kids are found with all types of weapons at school claiming they are just trying to defend themselves. I actually believe most only have the intentions of using them for self defense, very likely their assailant will be armed. Regardless our schools are a deadly place because we have let values and morals escape our country. I feel drugs are the number 1 contributing factor but terrible parenting is where it all starts.

[monkeylizard]

OK....be honest.....how many of us thought "The guy has a bunker? That's COOL!"

[Peace]

That guy could have a fleet of F-16s and a palace in the sky, and I wouldn't think any of it was cool.... The whole murdering someone and kidnapping a 6yr old pretty much zapped that for me. But hey, maybe I'm just getting old.

[Patton]

If you have ever lived in Alabama you would have a bunker also. Mostly for the daily tornados but I constantly needed a place to escape the idiots.

[Jesse]

This is horrible for the boy and parents. It would ne hard for me to not go in there myself. I dont think this guy will come out alive. But i hope he lets the kid go before he kills himself.

[Oh Shoot]

Perp sounds like an all around great guy and neighbor:

 

"The gunman, identified by neighbors as Jimmy Lee Dykes, a 65-year-old retired truck driver, was known around the neighborhood 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. He had been scheduled to appear in court Wednesday morning to answer charges he shot at his neighbors in a dispute last month over a speed bump."

 

http://www.wave3.com/story/20803699/driver-fatally-shot-aboard-alabama-school-bus

 

 

- OS

[Dolomite`s Breezy]

I  do not think the little one will come out alive.. He already killed someone .. he took that step. He crossed over to somewhere where he cant fix it.Once you take that step and kill someone .. its over.

.History says that the kid wont make it..If he isnt already dead .I just hope not..

He is a coward ....he killed  someone and beat a dog  to death with a pipe..Hpw can you take a little dude like that and put him in a bunker? 

[NoBanStan]

Perp sounds like an all around great guy and neighbor:

 

"The gunman, identified by neighbors as Jimmy Lee Dykes, a 65-year-old retired truck driver, was known around the neighborhood 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. He had been scheduled to appear in court Wednesday morning to answer charges he shot at his neighbors in a dispute last month over a speed bump."

 

http://www.wave3.com/story/20803699/driver-fatally-shot-aboard-alabama-school-bus

 

 

- OS

 

Why doesn't this suprise me.

[gnmwilliams]

I wonder if they could pump in some sort of odorless gas to knock everybody out?

[TripleDigitRide]

I wonder if they could pump in some sort of odorless gas to knock everybody out?

They probably don't want to risk him realizing something was wrong and kill the kid.

[Patton]

Well, he probably has a gas mask anyway since he is a prepper.

[gnmwilliams]

Well, he probably has a gas mask anyway since he is a prepper.

I doubt he'd even know what hit him if they could get enough of in there fast enough.

[monkeylizard]

The last word I heard, the kid was alive and unharmed. The cops had been able to send some of his medications down for him. He was watching TV.

I don't see how this can end well for him though. The nut was just looking for a hostage situation for some reason. Well, he has one now.

 

 

The history on this guy sounds like some of the neighbors we've had reported on here before.

[TMF]

Typical, a guy with a violent history who has become more emboldened since he has always gotten away with stuff. I live next door to a guy like this.

[Spiffy]

I doubt he'd even know what hit him if they could get enough of in there fast enough.

 

Enough gas to hit him fast would probably be more than enough to kill the kid.