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Monday, February 04, 2013
'He loved him when others did not': Community mourns loss of a school bus driver gunned down by survivalist he was trying to help | Mail Online - Laura Collins -Charles ‘Chuck’ Poland visited his killer on Tuesday morning, just a handful of hours before survivalist Jimmy Lee Dykes gunned him down and took a five-year old child hostage. - The school bus driver went to Dykes’s home near Midland City, Alabama, after finishing his morning route, bringing him a basket of eggs and jam. - Hours later Dykes repaid the 66-year-old father and grandfather’s act of kindness with shocking violence.
Survivalist tricked Alabama school bus driver into stopping by 'promising a gift of home-grown broccoli' before he shot him dead and took a little boy hostage | Mail Online - Laura Collins - Survivalist Jimmy Lee Dykes set his plan to ambush a Midland City school bus in motion by telling the driver that he was 'going to give him a gift', it was revealed today. - The detail has emerged as the hostage situation in Alabama continues into its fifth day. - The day before Dykes, 65, acted, he told driver, Charles Poland, that he was going to give him some broccoli he had grown on his land. - His intention was to ensure that his approach caused no alarm when he boarded the vehicle on Tuesday afternoon armed with a gun.
PHOTOS/VIDEO: 'From my heart to yours': Jennifer Hudson performs an emotional version of America The Beautiful with choir of children from Sandy Hook gun massacre school | Mail Online - By Bianca Carneiro -- It's a cause that is dear to Jennifer Hudson's heart - after having lost her family to gun violence. - And on Sunday the singer paid an emotional tribute to the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting at the Super Bowl. - Hudson was joined by the chorus from the Newtown, Conn. school as they opened up for the nation's biggest football event with an emotional performance of America The Beautiful.
'He loved him when others did not': Community mourns loss of a school bus driver gunned down by survivalist he was trying to help | Mail Online - Laura Collins -Charles ‘Chuck’ Poland visited his killer on Tuesday morning, just a handful of hours before survivalist Jimmy Lee Dykes gunned him down and took a five-year old child hostage. - The school bus driver went to Dykes’s home near Midland City, Alabama, after finishing his morning route, bringing him a basket of eggs and jam. - Hours later Dykes repaid the 66-year-old father and grandfather’s act of kindness with shocking violence.
EXCLUSIVE: Alabama 'survivalist killer' Jimmy Lee Dykes wants a reporter sent into his bunker to tell his story in exchange for releasing his 5-year-old hostage | Mail Online - Laura Collins - MailOnline has learned that Jimmy Lee Dykes made the extraordinary offer on the first day of what has now turned into a siege situation with the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team on site, emergency services and a host of media focused on the piece of Alabama bluff under which Dykes and the boy, Ethan, are holed up. - A source with the local sheriff's office has revealed that a CID Lieutenant spoke with Dykes for the first four hours of the hostage situation, communicating via a pipe sticking out from the ground – the only surface sign of the bunker’s location. - In those first crucial hours, Vietnam veteran Dykes attempted to strike his bargain – the boy in return for a reporter to tell his story of ‘how the government had screwed him.’
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