Southeastern Corner - Details Emerge About Man Center Of Alabama Standoff

MIDLAND CITY, Ala. A standoff and hostage crisis designated it has the sixth daytime Sunday because the classes bus taxi driver exactly who appeared to be murdered wanting to intervene had been buried, with babies paying tribute.

Authorities say Jim Lee Dykes, 65 a decorated Vietnam-era expert called Jimmy to neighbors gunned along the driving force and abducted your 5-year-old young man from the bus, acquiring him to an undercover bunker on his or her farm property.

Dykes, described as a loner whom railed in opposition to the particular government, lifestyles up a dirt road exterior this specific little hamlet north regarding Dothan in the southeastern next corner associated with Alabama. His home is just off the main roads along with north in the condition capital, Montgomery, regarding 80 kilometer after kilometer away.

The FBI said in a very report Sunday which professionals keep have got a strong open up line of verbal exchanges using Dykes. The boy, Ethan, enquired Cheez-It crackers along with a red Hot Wheels car, both connected with which were shipped to the bunker, a distinguish affirmation said. Authorities had explained that they likewise were giving you medication and various items, and the Dykes was producing the kid since secure as possible.

Authorities state your bunker is around 6 legs simply by eight feet, plus the simply entrance can be a trap doorway with the top. Such bunkers usually are not exceptional inside rural Alabama because of the threat regarding tornadoes.

In that neighborhood area connected with Ozark, much more when compared with five hundred folks filed into the Civic Center to be able to mourn the particular driver, Charles Albert Poland Jr. , 66, who seem to has been hailed as being a hero regarding safeguarding that various other kids about the bus in advance of he appeared to be chance Tuesday.

Poland is at this point "an angel whom is actually watching over" this abducted boy, explained Dale County School Supt. Donny Bynum, who learn characters published by three pupils who had ridden on Poland's bus. "You don't are worthy of to pass away and you passed on knowing people retained everyone safe," just one child wrote.