Alabama Hostage Standoff Over: Jimmy Lee Dykes Dead, Child Safe

Finally, one less scum-bag in this world. Good work by the authorities in 1) keeping the child safe, and 2) killing the asshole. A great deal of taxpayer money and aggravation was spared in not having to defend this moron. TGO

Refer to story below. Source: Good Morning America 

By GIO BENITEZ and CHRISTINA NG | Good Morning America

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A week-long Alabama standoff in which a retired trucker held a  5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker has ended with the  kidnapper dead and the child safe, according to law enforcement.

“FBI Agents safely recovered the child who’s been held hostage for  nearly a week,” FBI Special Agent Steve Richardson said at a news  conference.

The agent said negotiations with the suspect Richard Lee Dykes “deteriorated” in the past 24 hours.

“Mr. Dykes was observed holding a gun. At this point the FBI agents  fearing the child was in imminent danger, entered the bunker and rescued the child,” Richardson said.

The boy identified only as Ethan “appears physically unharmed” and is being treated at a hospital, authorities said.

Dykes, 65, is dead, but officials have not yet provided details on how he died.

Dykes allegedly shot and killed a school bus driver last week and  threatened to kill all the children on the bus before taking the boy,  one of the students on the bus said.

“He said he was going to kill us, going to kill us all,” Tarrica Singletary, 14, told ABC News.

Dykes had been holed up in his underground bunker near Midland City,  Ala., with the abducted boy for a week as police tried to negotiate with him through a PVC pipe. Police had used the talks to send the child  comfort items, including a red Hot Wheels car, coloring books, cheese  crackers, potato chips and medicine.

Dykes was a decorated Vietnam vet who grew up in the area. He lived in  Florida until two years ago, the AP reported, and has an adult daughter, but the two lost touch years ago, neighbor Michael Creel said. When he  returned to Alabama, neighbors say he once beat a dog with a lead pipe  and had threatened to shoot children who set foot on his property.

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