2013 Alabama bunker hostage crisis

When

29 Jan 2013

Kind

Murder

Killed

2

Coordinates

31.31° N, 85.49° W

Description

Hostage crisis occuring near U.S. Highway 231 in Midland City, Alabama

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

2013 American murder and hostage crisis

On January 29, 2013, a hostage crisis, lasting almost seven days, began in the Wiregrass Region near U.S. Highway 231 in Midland City, Alabama. Jimmy Lee Dykes, a 65-year-old Vietnam War-era veteran, boarded a Dale County school bus, killed the driver, and took a five-year-old boy hostage. On the afternoon of February 4, law enforcement agents entered the bunker, killed Dykes, and rescued the child.

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