Monday, February 04, 2013
Hostage taker dead, little boy safe at hospital - RSN
'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.
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