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Gerald
02-01-13, 08:08 AM
(Reuters) - A hostage-taking by a gunman accused of fatally shooting a school bus driver and then disappearing with a young boy into an underground bunker entered its third night on Thursday in a rural corner of southeast Alabama.

Law enforcement officials remained tight-lipped about the standoff near Midland City, a small town about 30 miles west of Alabama's border with Georgia, after cancelling a planned news conference.

Officials from local, state and federal agencies have been camped out by a dirt road near the bunker since Tuesday, when authorities say a gunman demanded that a student be let off a bus carrying more than 20 children home from school.

When 66-year-old driver Charles Albert Poland Jr. refused, the suspect shot him several times and fled the scene with a kindergarten student whom he appeared to have grabbed at random, officials said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/01/us-usa-alabama-shooting-idUSBRE90U16L20130201

Poor boy and parents who have suffered for a madman, :shifty:


Note: Thu Jan 31, 2013 8:58pm EST

Gerald
02-05-13, 02:41 PM
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/us/boy-is-safe-after-alabama-hostage-standoff.html?_r=0

I'm glad it's over for Those Involved.

Mork_417
02-06-13, 01:30 AM
Me too. I just hope the boy recovers from it well.

Cybermat47
02-06-13, 01:42 AM
Man, that guy was a creep :doh:

Catfish
02-06-13, 03:38 AM
A fomer "Vietnam veteran" ?
Is this an excuse, or an accusation - and is it true at all ?