Officers storm bunker, shoot kidnapper
A 5-year-old boy freed Monday after being held captive in an underground bunker for six days is laughing and smiling and playing with his favorite toy dinosaur after being reunited with his family.
A 5-year-old boy freed Monday after being held captive in an underground bunker for six days is laughing and smiling and playing with his favorite toy dinosaur after being reunited with his family.
After a seven-day standoff, the hostage crisis in south Alabama has ended.
A memorial service was held in southeastern Alabama on Sunday for a school bus driver hailed as a hero.
In a sign of perhaps how tense negotiations are between authorities and the suspect, officials have refused to detail what, if any, demands have been made by the suspect.
As an armed standoff entered its fifth day Saturday, authorities negotiated through a ventilation pipe with a man accused of barricading himself and a 5-year-old hostage.
It’s unclear whether the suspected gunman was after a specific child on the bus.
Negotiators say they have heard the little boy who’s being held hostage in rural Alabama crying for his relatives.
The man was able to grab the boy and drag him to his underground bunker.
Tuesday’s standoff continues into Thursday,
One man was shot fatally on a school bus in Alabama on Tuesday, and a boy was taken hostage, the Dale County Sheriff’s Office sai.
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