Alabama Bunker Hostage Safe at Home with Family For His Birthday (First Footage Released)

	Alabama Bunker Hostage Safe at Home with Family For His Birthday (First Footage Released) Alabama Bunker Hostage Safe at Home with Family Alabama Bunker Hostage Safe at Home with Family For six anguished days, people in this small Alabama town asked just one question about the 5-year-old boy being held hostage in an underground bunker by a menacing, unpredictable neighbor: "Is he free yet?" After FBI agents determined that talks with an increasingly agitated Jimmy Lee Dykes were breaking down, they stormed the closet-sized hideout Monday afternoon and freed the kindergartner. The 65-year-old armed captor was killed by law enforcement agents, authorities said. Play Video How did the Ala. hostage standoff end? . "They did have a camera inside and they were able to observe his movements," says CBS This Morning senior correspondent John Miller. "As they watched him handling the weapon, he was getting more and more irrational." Sheriff Wally Olson said late Monday that Dykes was armed when officers entered the bunker to rescue the child. He said the boy was threatened, but declined to elaborate. "That's why we went inside - to save the child," he said. " ... It's a relief for us to be able to reunited a mother with her child." Interviewed Tuesday, the boy's great uncle, Berlin Enfinger, told ABC's Good Morning America that the child was relieved to be home after his rescue a day earlier. An FBI Hostage Rescue team launched the rescue attempt after concerns mounted that Dykes was growing more unstable and presented a growing threat to the boy's safety, a US official <b>...</b>	From: NasirNews Views: 0 0 ratings
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