MIDLAND CITY, Ala. - A law enforcement official says a 5-year-old has been safely released after a weeklong standoff between police and the boy's abductor.
MIDLAND CITY, Ala. - A standoff in rural Alabama went into a second full day as police surrounded an underground bunker where authorities said a retired truck driver was holding a 5-year-old hostage he grabbed off a school bus after shooting the driver dead.
Police Lt. Don Everson told KDLT that a suspect had assaulted a woman and then retreated to a bedroom when officers arrived. The man then turned a shotgun on himself.