Posted on 01/31/2013 6:16:38 AM PST by WCH
MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — Jimmy Lee Dykes moved to a rural Alabama neighborhood on a rutted red clay road more than a year ago. It didn't take long before he had developed a frightening reputation as a volatile man who threatened his neighbors at gunpoint and was viciously violent to wandering pets. Multiple neighbors said Dykes, a 65-year-old retired truck driver, was the man suspected of boarding a school bus full of children near his home, killing the driver and taking one 5-year-old boy hostage to open a standoff that entered its second full day Thursday. The neighborhood near Midland City, population 2,300, remained under siege after the Tuesday shooting, with the suspect and child holed up in a bunker-type shelter on the man's property that was equipped with electricity, food and TV.
Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2013-01-31/story/standoff-alabama-man-who-killed-bus-driver-holding-boy-hostage-enters#ixzz2JYuu4CPh
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Strange... I went to update the story and there’s NOTHING new.
Nobody really wants to cover this one.
weird. must not fit some agenda of the MSM.
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