School bus shooting, kidnapping in SE Alabama

Developing

http://www.dothaneagle.com/news/crime_court/article_0abb616c-6a5f-11e2-afc7-001a4bcf6878.html

School bus driver shot, one child abducted. Uncertain whether the child is still with the shooter, but he is apparently in a bunker in his back yard.

 

Gun, bunker, terrorizing children ... Just another REAL PATRIOT.

We obviously need more armed teachers out there at the bus stops.

 

Details are very slow coming out. I used to live there for about 6 years. But I'm far from there now. Some FB posters (yeah, I know) suggest the shooter is a veteran with dementia, but I haven't seen that in any real report.

 

The

The Eagle is doing a poor editing job. Notice the lead and the sixth graph.

 

Yeah, in addition, it kept saying "updated at..." but nothing had changed. The TV stations did better with the websites, as best I can tell.

The bus driver died, and the child is apparently special needs, but they managed to get him some medicine and establish contact with him.

News is very slow out of there, however.

 

Updated story.

http://www.dothaneagle.com/news/crime_court/article_0abb616c-6a5f-11e2-afc7-001a4bcf6878.html

 

This is community journalism at its best. The Ricky Stokes Network? I guess we'd better get used to it.

 

If only this stuff were illegal

 

It would be nice to know the history of the weapon he used to shoot the driver. Who was the original purchaser and how it came into this man's hands.

 

I never heard of the guy before yesterday, but he has some gold there. One of yesterday's breaking news items was him putting a school superintendent on blast because he hasn't updated his voicemail since Christmas break.

http://www.rickeystokesnews.com/article.php/phone-message-of-tim-pitchfords-office-39149

 

Dang, I think Rickey Stokes has more advertisers than the Dothan Eagle.

 

At some point I need to start a Ricky Stokes thread. But meanwhile, this asshole is still holding an autistic 6-year-old hostage.

http://blog.al.com/montgomery/2013/01/midland_city_hostage_atf_explo.html