Residents look over the school bus where a shooting occurred near Destiny Church, just north of Midland City, Alabama. Picture: Danny Tindell Source: AP
POLICE, SWAT teams and negotiators are clustered at a rural Alabama property where a man is believed to be holed up in an underground shelter after fatally shooting the driver of a school bus and fleeing with a 6-year-old child passenger, authorities said.
The standoff went through the night after the man, whose name has not been released by police, boarded the stopped school bus in the town of Midland City on Tuesday afternoon. Dale County Sheriff Wally Olsen told WBMA-TV the man shot the driver when he refused to let the child off the bus and the driver later died.
The sheriff's office named the victim as Charles Albert Poland, Jr, 66, who had been a bus driver since 2009 for the Dale County Board of Education.
The shooter took the child off the bus, authorities said.
Investigators have not released the suspect's name. Neighbours said the rural property near Dothan, Alabama, at the heart of the standoff belonged to Jimmy Lee Dykes, a man in his 60s.
Court records showed Mr Dykes had been scheduled to appear in court today to face a charge of menacing some neighbours as they drove by his house last month. The neighbours said he yelled and fired shots over damage he claimed their pickup truck did to a make-shift speed bump in the dirt road.
Law enforcement personnel near the home where the school bus shooting suspect is barricaded. Picture: Jay Hare
About 50 vehicles from federal, state and local agencies were clustered at the mouth of a dirt road off a highway. The dead-end road leads to homes including the suspect's property, which was over a low rise behind a church on the highway and couldn't be seen from where reporters were being kept back.
County coroner Woodrow Hilboldt said the overnight standoff continued into the day with tactical units, negotiators and other officers at the scene near a church. He said the suspect was believed to be in an underground shelter on his property.
"That's what has been described to me as an underground bunker. Someplace to get out of the way of a tornado," Mr Hilboldt said.
Claudia Davis, who lives on the road where the standoff was taking place, said she and her neighbours can't leave because the one road was blocked by police.
Ms Davis, 54, said she has had run-ins with the man suspected as the shooter.
Law enforcement personnel work a checkpoint in Midland City, below the home where a school bus shooting suspect barricaded himself in a bunker with a young child. Picture: Jay Hare
"Before this happened I would see him at several places and he would just stare a hole through me," Ms Davis said. "On Monday I saw him at a laundry mat and he seen me when I was getting in my truck and he just started and stared and stared at me."
Midland City police would not comment, and a dispatcher at the Dale City Sheriff's office said the agency was not releasing any immediate details.
"Authorities also confirmed the presence of a child at the scene but are giving no further information at this time," Rachel David, a spokeswoman for the police department in the nearby city of Dothan, said in a news release late Tuesday.
Michael Creel, who lives on the road where the shooting happened, said he went outside after his sister heard gunshots.
"Me and her started running down the road," Creel told the Dothan Eagle. "That's when I realised the bus had its siren going off. Kids were filing out, running down the hill toward the church."
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