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Title: BREAKING: Hostage Situation Ends, 5-year-old Child is Safe, Kidnapper Dead, U.S.
Post by: blacken700 on February 04, 2013, 02:31:59 PM: Source: CBS News

@CBSNews: BREAKING NEWS: A U.S. official says Alabama hostage situation is over: kidnapped child is alive, kidnapper is dead http://t.co/s2drA6vF

Also: @BreakingNews: Reports of explosions near Midland City, Alabama, hostage scene - @abc3340, WJHG-TV

Alabama Standoff Update: Hostage situation ends, 5-year-old child is safe, kidnapper dead, U.S. official says

February 04, 2013

(CBS/AP) MIDLAND CITY, Ala. - A U.S. official tells CBS News that a nearly week-long hostage standoff in which a 5-year-old was being held captive in southeast Alabama has ended in the kidnapper's death. The child is said to be okay.

Authorities said 65-year-old Jimmy Dykes gunned down a school bus driver Tuesday and abducted a 5-year-old boy from the bus before taking him to an underground bunker on his rural property. The driver, 66-year-old Charles Poland Jr., was buried Sunday.

Dykes, a decorated Vietnam-era veteran described as a loner who railed against the government, lived up a dirt road just off the main road north to the state capital of Montgomery, about 80 miles away.

CBS radio affiliate WSB says reporters heard what may have been a concussion grenade before ambulance and fire vehicles went to and from Dykes' property about 4p.m. Eastern Time Monday.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/fullstory.rbml
Title: Re: BREAKING: Hostage Situation Ends, 5-year-old Child is Safe, Kidnapper Dead, U.S.
Post by: Montague on February 04, 2013, 02:43:54 PM: GREAT!!!!
Title: Re: BREAKING: Hostage Situation Ends, 5-year-old Child is Safe, Kidnapper Dead, U.S.
Post by: Montague on February 04, 2013, 02:45:01 PM: Thank God that kid is okay.
Well, I'm sure he's traumatized, but what I mean is at least he's alive!
Title: Re: BREAKING: Hostage Situation Ends, 5-year-old Child is Safe, Kidnapper Dead, U.S.
Post by: Mr. Magoo on February 04, 2013, 02:47:26 PM: about time for a good news story
Title: Re: BREAKING: Hostage Situation Ends, 5-year-old Child is Safe, Kidnapper Dead, U.S.
Post by: Montague on February 04, 2013, 02:49:11 PM: I want to find out how the concussion grenade only affected Dykes.
The link above doesn't work, but I have the news on now.
Title: Re: BREAKING: Hostage Situation Ends, 5-year-old Child is Safe, Kidnapper Dead, U.S.
Post by: Montague on February 04, 2013, 02:52:40 PM: Okay, it sounds like they raided the bunker, but still aren't sure if they shot him, or if Dykes shot himself.
Title: Re: BREAKING: Hostage Situation Ends, 5-year-old Child is Safe, Kidnapper Dead, U.S.
Post by: LurkerNoMore on February 04, 2013, 03:10:58 PM: Quote from: Montague on February 04, 2013, 02:52:40 PM
Okay, it sounds like they raided the bunker, but still aren't sure if they shot him, or if Dykes shot himself.

Or maybe the five year old killed him because he ran out of Doritos.

(tip to the goat commercial)
Title: Re: BREAKING: Hostage Situation Ends, 5-year-old Child is Safe, Kidnapper Dead, U.S.
Post by: Montague on February 04, 2013, 03:21:56 PM: Quote from: LurkerNoMore on February 04, 2013, 03:10:58 PM
Or maybe the five year old killed him because he ran out of Doritos.

(tip to the goat commercial)

LOL!! I'll laugh about it now since the boy is safe.
Seriously, you don't know how happy I am that kid wasn't hurt (or worse).