Details emerge about man at center of Alabama standoff

By Bruce Smith and Melissa Nelson-Gabriel, Associated Press

Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013 | 3:15 p.m.

MIDLAND CITY, Ala. — As an Alabama standoff and hostage drama marked a sixth day Sunday, more details emerged about the suspect at the center, with neighbors and officials painting a picture of an isolated man estranged from his family. Authorities say Jim Lee Dykes, 65 — a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War known as Jimmy to neighbors — gunned down a school bus driver and abducted a 5-year-old boy from the bus, taking him to an underground bunker on his rural property. The driver, 66-year-old Charles Albert Poland Jr., was buried Sunday. Dykes, described as a loner who ...

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By spdmrcht

Feb. 3, 2013

8:45 p.m.

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I feel for the man, what he did was stupid, but
there are hundreds of thousands of working tax
payers out there that are totally fed up with
OB BS! The welfare Breeders and Illegal immigrants
elected him not the working class!
By davis296

Feb. 4, 2013

3:25 a.m.

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WHAT THE.......!!!!!

Is this one of your "Second Amendment remedies"?
Take off the tinfoil hat, turn off the Hate Radio, and try to become a part of the solution.