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Bookmark or Share- 9-years-later: ‘Boy in the Bunker’ incident | WDHN - wdhn.comLate on the afternoon of January 29, 2013, Jimmy Lee Dykes entered a school bus. The bus driver, 66-year-old Charles Poland, Jr. refused to let him take the children and challenged Dykes to shoot him.
- Man behind Alabama hostage standoff, Jimmy Lee Dykes ... - al.comJimmy Lee Dykes died in the bunker on his property where he held a 5-year-old child for a week before it was stormed by law enforcement. Details emerged Tuesday on the troubled life of the man ...
- 2013 Alabama bunker hostage crisis - WikipediaJimmy Lee Dykes, a 65-year-old Vietnam War-era veteran, boarded a Dale County school bus, killed the driver, and took a five-year-old boy hostage. On the afternoon of February 4, law enforcement agents entered the bunker, killed Dykes, and rescued the child.
- Inside the bunker: From storm shelter to boy’s prison | CNNJimmy Lee Dykes told neighbors he was building a storm shelter. He told one neighbor tornadoes had come dangerously close to destroying his homes in the past. But that bunker 4 feet below the...
- Rural Rescue: A Timeline of the Alabama Hostage CrisisThe hostage standoff in Midland City, Ala., ended with a shootout between kidnapper Jimmy Lee Dykes and law enforcement and the rescue of the 5-year-old boy he abducted from a school bus after...
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