2013 Alabama bunker hostage crisis
Hostage crisis occuring near U.S. Highway 231 in Midland City, Alabama
On January 29, 2013, a five-year-old boy was taken hostage for almost seven days in Dale County, Alabama, in the United States. The boy, Ethan, was riding to school on a bus. A 65-year-old Vietnam War veteran named Jimmy Lee Dykes came aboard the bus and killed the driver. Dykes took Ethan to an underground bunker on his property, in the Wiregrass Region near U.S. Highway 231.
On the afternoon of Monday, February 4, after negotiations with Dykes had failed and believing the child was going to be hurt very soon, law enforcement agents raided the bunker. The abductor was shot dead. Ethan, who suffers from Asperger's syndrome, was rescued.
Neighbors and officials had described Dykes as a survivalist with "anti-government" views.[1]
References
change- ↑ "Official: Hostage standoff ends with child safe, kidnapper dead". CNN. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
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