Bump
Ongoing standoff in Alabama with a "Survivalist" taking a young boy hostage in his survival bunker.
Quote:
More than three days after he allegedly shot dead a school bus driver, grabbed a five-year-old child and slipped into an underground bunker in the rural U.S., Jimmy Lee Dykes was showing no signs Friday of turning himself over to police.
Hostage negotiators spoke into a narrow ventilation pipe leading into the bunker, trying to talk the 65-year-old, said to hold anti-government views, into freeing the boy.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2...man-day-3.html
|
I didn't bump this thread because I was thinking of gun control, mental illness, or that it was a mass shooting (it wasn't), but just thinking about how this is a nightmare for police.
Unlike a building where police can get in through a number of ways, the bunker has supplies and fortified that the suspect can be there for awhile, and there isn't a lot the police can do.