MIDLAND CITY, Ala. — As an Alabama standoff and hostage drama marked a sixth day Sunday, more details emerged about the suspect at the center, with neighbors and officials painting a picture of an isolated man estranged from his family.
Authorities say Jim Lee Dykes, 65 — a veteran of the Vietnam War known as Jimmy to neighbors — gunned down a school bus driver and abducted a 5-year-old boy from the bus, taking him to an underground bunker on his rural property. The driver, 66-year-old Charles Albert Poland Jr., was buried Sunday.
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A neighbor, Michael Creel, said Dykes kept to himself and listened to a lot of conservative talk radio. ‘‘He was very into what’s going on with the nation and the politics and all the laws being made. The things he didn’t agree with, he would ventilate,’’ he said.
James Arrington, police chief of the neighboring town of Pinckard, put it differently. ‘‘He’s against the government, starting with Obama on down,’’ he said.
............... WHAT A SURPRISE. THANKS A LOT RUSH.
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