Boy held hostage in Alabama bunker for third day: officials

Gerald · 02-01-13, 08:08 AM

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(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.

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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/...90U16L20130201

Poor boy and parents who have suffered for a madman,

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

Gerald · 02-05-13, 02:41 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/us...doff.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

Catfish · 02-06-13, 03:38 AM

A fomer "Vietnam veteran" ?
Is this an excuse, or an accusation - and is it true at all ?

02-05-13, 02:41 PM	#2
Gerald SUBSIM Newsman Join Date: May 2008 Location: Close to sea Posts: 24,254 Downloads: 553 Uploads: 0	Standoff in Alabama Ends in Boy’s Rescue and Kidnapper’s Death http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/us...doff.html?_r=0 I'm glad it's over for Those Involved. __________________ Nothing in life is to be feard,it is only to be understood. Marie Curie

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02-06-13, 03:38 AM	#5
Catfish Dipped Squirrel Operative Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: ..where the ocean meets the sky Posts: 17,765 Downloads: 38 Uploads: 0	A fomer "Vietnam veteran" ? Is this an excuse, or an accusation - and is it true at all ?