Tuesday, February 05, 2013
Standoff in Alabama Ends in Boy’s Rescue and Kidnapper’s Death - NYTimes.com - Robbie Brown and Campbell Robertson - For some time, officials had been able to monitor movements within the bunker using high-tech surveillance equipment, said two people who had been briefed on the operation. They had also built a mock-up of the bunker nearby, where the authorities could test various options while devising a rescue plan. - On Monday afternoon, sensing that Mr. Dykes was becoming rattled and that the threat to the boy was growing, the authorities dropped two devices into the bunker that created loud explosions, heard by people across a highway. The explosions disoriented Mr. Dykes, and immediately afterward two or three members of the F.B.I. Hostage Rescue Team went into the bunker and retrieved the child. Mr. Dykes was killed.
FBI: Ethan removed in raid of bunker that ended Midland City hostage crisis; neighbor reports hearing explosion, gunfire (video) | al.com - Erin Edgemon - Neighbor Micah Senn, 16, who lives a few hundred yards from the hostage site, said he heard the explosion followed by four to five rounds of gunfire.
Monday, February 04, 2013
PHOTOS: Alabama Hostage: Back in his mother's arms: Parents' joy as they are reunited with son after FBI raid on Alabama bunker left survivalist captor DEAD | Mail Online - Laura Collins - The five year old boy held captive in an underground bunker for seven days has been reunited with his mother. The emotional reunion came after FBI agents stormed the Alabama bunker in which the child had been held, leaving his survivalist captor dead. - Ethan, the child at the heart of the Alabama kidnapping crisis, spent his first evening of freedom playing, eating, laughing and joking around with his favorite toy dinosaur. - The ordeal came to a dramatic conclusion as FBI agents believed the little boy to be in 'imminent danger' and breeched survivalist Jimmy Lee Dykes's bunker.
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Ethan, sitting up on stretcher, arriving at Flowers Hospital in Dothan - Monday Feb 4, 2013
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Birthday Cards For Ethan - Scene Pictures Of Last Tuesday - Hear Radio Calls 9 PM Press Conference of Sheriff Wally Olson, District Attorney Kirke Adams, ABI and FBI :: RickeyStokesNews.com!
Birthday Cards For Ethan
This Wednesday is the 6th birthday of Ethan. Anyone wanting to send cards to Ethan can do so in care of Lt. McDaniel, in care of Napier Field Police Department, 400 Headquarters Drive - Napier Field Alabama 36303.
You can send a card or gift card for Ethan.
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