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Negotiators talking through ventilation pipe to US captor in bunker
MIDLAND CITY, Ala. Speaking into a 4 inch wide ventilation pipe, hostage negotiators tried Thursday to talk a man into releasing a kindergartener and ending a standoff in an underground bunker that stretched into its third day.
The man identified by multiple neighbours 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.
James Arrington, police chief of the neighbouring town of Pinckard, said the shelter was about 4 feet underground, with about 6 by 8 feet of floor space and a PVC pipe that negotiators were speaking through.
There were signs that the standoff could continue for some time: A state legislator said the shelter has electricity, food and TV. The police chief said the captor has been sleeping and told negotiators that he has spent long periods in the shelter before. "It's pretty small, but he's been known to stay in there eight days."
Midland City Mayor Virgil Skipper said he has been briefed by law enforcement and visited with the boy's parents.
"He's crying for his parents," he said. "They are praying and asking all of us to fake van cleef and arpels earrings pray with them."
Republican Rep. Steve Clouse, who represents the Midland City area, said he visited the boy's mother Thursday and that she is "hanging on by a thread."
"Everybody is praying with her for the boy," he said.
Clouse said the mother told him that the boy has Asperger's syndrome, an autism like disorder, as well as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. Police have been delivering medication to him through the pipe, he said.
The normally quiet red clay road leading to the bunker was teeming Thursday with more than a dozen police cars and trucks, a fire truck, a helicopter, officers from multiple agencies, news media and at least one ambulance near Midland City, population 2,300.
As night fell and temperatures dipped into the low 40s, police and other emergency workers wore heavy coats outside a small church being used as a command post. Neighbors said Dykes had a small heater in the bunker.
Overhead, a small aircraft with blinking lights flew wide circles high above the man's property. An ambulance remained parked on the side of the dirt road.
"The three past days have not been easy on anybody," Sheriff Wally Olson said at a news briefing late Thursday.
"There's no reason to believe the child has been harmed," he said.
Dykes was known around the neighbourhood as a menacing figure who neighbours said once beat a dog to death with a lead pipe, threatened to shoot children for setting foot on his property and patrolled his yard at night with a flashlight and a firearm.
The chief confirmed that Dykes held anti government views, as described by multiple neighbours: "He's against the government starting with Obama on down."
"He doesn't like law enforcement or the government telling him what to do," he said. When the driver tried to block his way, the gunman shot him several times and took a 5 year old boy off the bus.
The bus driver, Charles Albert Poland Jr., 66, was hailed by locals as a hero who gave his life to protect the 21 students aboard the bus.
No motive has been discussed by investigators, but the police chief said the FBI had evidence suggesting it could be considered a hate crime. The mayor said he hasn't seen anything tying together Dykes' anti government views and the allegations against him.
Dykes had been scheduled to appear in court Wednesday to answer charges he shot at his neighbours in a dispute last month over a speed bump. Neighbor Claudia Davis said he yelled and fired shots at her, her son and her baby grandson over damage Dykes claimed their pickup truck did to a makeshift speed bump in the dirt road. No one was hurt.
The son, James Davis Jr., believes Tuesday's shooting was connected knock off alhambra earrings to the court date. "I believe he thought I was going to be in court and he was going to get more charges than the menacing, which he deserved, and he had a bunch of stuff to hide and that's why he did it."
Neighbours described a number of other run ins with Dykes in the time since he moved to this small town near the Georgia and Florida borders, in a region known for peanut farming.
A neighbour directly across the street, Brock Parrish, said Dykes usually wore overalls and glasses and his posture was hunched over. He said Dykes usually drove a run down "creeper" van with some of the windows covered in aluminum foil.
Parrish saw him often digging in his yard, as if he was preparing a spot to lay down a driveway or a building foundation. He lived in a small camping trailer on the site. He patrolled his lawn at night, walking from corner to corner with a flashlight and an assault rifle.
Mike and Patricia Smith, who also live across the street from Dykes and whose two children were on the bus, said their youngsters had a run in with him about 10 months ago.
"My bulldogs got loose and went over there," Patricia Smith said. "The children went to get them. He threatened to shoot them if they came back."
Another neighbour, Ronda Wilbur, said Dykes beat her 120 pound (55 kilogram) dog with a lead pipe for coming onto his side of the dirt road. The dog died imitation van cleef & arpels earrings a week later.
MIDLAND CITY, Ala. Speaking into a 4 inch wide ventilation pipe, hostage negotiators tried Thursday to talk a man into releasing a kindergartener and ending a standoff in an underground bunker that stretched into its third day.
The man identified by multiple neighbours 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.
James Arrington, police chief of the neighbouring town of Pinckard, said the shelter was about 4 feet underground, with about 6 by 8 feet of floor space and a PVC pipe that negotiators were speaking through.
There were signs that the standoff could continue for some time: A state legislator said the shelter has electricity, food and TV. The police chief said the captor has been sleeping and told negotiators that he has spent long periods in the shelter before. "It's pretty small, but he's been known to stay in there eight days."
Midland City Mayor Virgil Skipper said he has been briefed by law enforcement and visited with the boy's parents.
"He's crying for his parents," he said. "They are praying and asking all of us to fake van cleef and arpels earrings pray with them."
Republican Rep. Steve Clouse, who represents the Midland City area, said he visited the boy's mother Thursday and that she is "hanging on by a thread."
"Everybody is praying with her for the boy," he said.
Clouse said the mother told him that the boy has Asperger's syndrome, an autism like disorder, as well as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. Police have been delivering medication to him through the pipe, he said.
The normally quiet red clay road leading to the bunker was teeming Thursday with more than a dozen police cars and trucks, a fire truck, a helicopter, officers from multiple agencies, news media and at least one ambulance near Midland City, population 2,300.
As night fell and temperatures dipped into the low 40s, police and other emergency workers wore heavy coats outside a small church being used as a command post. Neighbors said Dykes had a small heater in the bunker.
Overhead, a small aircraft with blinking lights flew wide circles high above the man's property. An ambulance remained parked on the side of the dirt road.
"The three past days have not been easy on anybody," Sheriff Wally Olson said at a news briefing late Thursday.
"There's no reason to believe the child has been harmed," he said.
Dykes was known around the neighbourhood as a menacing figure who neighbours said once beat a dog to death with a lead pipe, threatened to shoot children for setting foot on his property and patrolled his yard at night with a flashlight and a firearm.
The chief confirmed that Dykes held anti government views, as described by multiple neighbours: "He's against the government starting with Obama on down."
"He doesn't like law enforcement or the government telling him what to do," he said. When the driver tried to block his way, the gunman shot him several times and took a 5 year old boy off the bus.
The bus driver, Charles Albert Poland Jr., 66, was hailed by locals as a hero who gave his life to protect the 21 students aboard the bus.
No motive has been discussed by investigators, but the police chief said the FBI had evidence suggesting it could be considered a hate crime. The mayor said he hasn't seen anything tying together Dykes' anti government views and the allegations against him.
Dykes had been scheduled to appear in court Wednesday to answer charges he shot at his neighbours in a dispute last month over a speed bump. Neighbor Claudia Davis said he yelled and fired shots at her, her son and her baby grandson over damage Dykes claimed their pickup truck did to a makeshift speed bump in the dirt road. No one was hurt.
The son, James Davis Jr., believes Tuesday's shooting was connected knock off alhambra earrings to the court date. "I believe he thought I was going to be in court and he was going to get more charges than the menacing, which he deserved, and he had a bunch of stuff to hide and that's why he did it."
Neighbours described a number of other run ins with Dykes in the time since he moved to this small town near the Georgia and Florida borders, in a region known for peanut farming.
A neighbour directly across the street, Brock Parrish, said Dykes usually wore overalls and glasses and his posture was hunched over. He said Dykes usually drove a run down "creeper" van with some of the windows covered in aluminum foil.
Parrish saw him often digging in his yard, as if he was preparing a spot to lay down a driveway or a building foundation. He lived in a small camping trailer on the site. He patrolled his lawn at night, walking from corner to corner with a flashlight and an assault rifle.
Mike and Patricia Smith, who also live across the street from Dykes and whose two children were on the bus, said their youngsters had a run in with him about 10 months ago.
"My bulldogs got loose and went over there," Patricia Smith said. "The children went to get them. He threatened to shoot them if they came back."
Another neighbour, Ronda Wilbur, said Dykes beat her 120 pound (55 kilogram) dog with a lead pipe for coming onto his side of the dirt road. The dog died imitation van cleef & arpels earrings a week later.
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