Tense standoff continues in Alabama as law enforcement officials ring the property of a retired trucker and accused of holding a 5-year old boy hostage in an underground bunker. MIDLAND CITY, ALABAMA, UNITED STATES (FEBRUARY 2, 2013) (REUTERS) - A tense standoff continued for the fifth day on Saturday (February 2) as law enforcement officials gathered around the property of Jimmy Lee Dykes, a retired trucker and Vietnam veteran accused of fatally shooting a school bus driver and then holding a 5-year old boy hostage in an underground bunker. Officials say a gunman on Tuesday (January 29) demanded that a student be let off a bus carrying more than 20 children home from school. When the driver, Charles AlbertPoland, 66, refused, the suspect shot him several times and fled the scene with a kindergarten student, police said. Officials have said the boy seized from the bus is believed to be unharmed. Dykes had been due to appear for a bench trial on Wednesday (January 30) after his arrest last month on a menacing charge involving one of his neighbors, court records showed. |
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