Thursday 31 January 2013

INQUIRER.net: Alabama standoff: Negotiators talk to captor

INQUIRER.net
Philippine News for Filipinos
Alabama standoff: Negotiators talk to captor
Feb 1st 2013, 03:32

  MIDLAND CITY, Alabama— Speaking into a ventilation pipe, hostage negotiators tried to talk a man into releasing a 5-year-old boy and ending a standoff at an underground bunker in rural Alabama that stretched into its third day. The man identified by multiple neighbors and witnesses as 65-year-old retired truck driver Jimmy Lee Dykes was accused of pulling the boy from a school bus on Tuesday and killing the driver. The man and boy were holed up in a small room on his property that authorities compared to tornado shelters common in the area. James Arrington, police chief of the neighboring town of Pinckard, said the shelter was about 4 feet (1.2 meters) undergroun...

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