FBI confirm Jimmy Lee Dykes fired on authorities, had explosives planted on property
As FBI and police negotiators sought for days to end a hostage crisis in Alabama as Jimmy Lee Dykes held a young boy hostage in an underground bunker. Authorities now report that Dykes had rigged the bunker with More...
Alabama hostage crisis ends, Jimmy Lee Dykes dead, Ethan free and doing well
Officers decided to storm the underground bunker where Jimmy Lee Dykes had been holding the boy after they determined he was in ‘imminent danger.’ Jimmy Lee Dykes The 5-year-old kindergartner, Etha, More...
FBI using drones to fly over and ‘study’ Jimmy Lee Dykes bunker
An ABC report revealed some more details of Jimmy Lee Dykes attacking an Alabama school bus of students, threatening them before taking Ethan hostage and killing the driver Charles Poland. Now the standout enters More...
Jimmy Lee Dykes, Alabama kidnapper, threatened to ‘kill us all,’ says student on bus
Jimmy Lee Dykes, the retired Alabama trucker who shot and killed school bus driver Charles Poland last week and has held a 5-year-old boy hostage (named Ethan) in his underground bunker for seven days, had threatened More...
Authorities still negotiating with Jimmy Lee Sykes as Alabama hostage crisis hits day five
Authorities said Saturday that they still have an open line of communication with an Alabama man accused of abducting a 5-year-old boy and holding him hostage in a bunker, after he shot and killed a bus driver during More...
Jimmy Lee Dykes, Alabama man holding an autistic child hostage, enters day 3 of standoff with police
Police negotiators are still trying to bargain with an Alabama gunman, more than 48 hours after he abducted a five-year-old boy from his school bus and is holding him hostage in his underground bunker. The suspect, More...