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    Murder suspect reportedly holding 6-year-old boy he took off school bus

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Factors breaking news this is Midland city Alabama southern part of the state closest big town is dauphin Alabama.

Police and swat teams negotiators there.

Around this -- property were man is believed to be holed up for the inside of an underground shelter holding a six year old boy hostage this broke last evening.

When a school bus was stopped.

And the gunman demanded at least one of the children go with him when the driver refused.

The driver were shot to death.

Are firmer as a former LAPD homicide detective with the -- -- northern Idaho.

What what do you do right now what's the strategy with the feds and state and local authorities.

Surrounding an underground bunker where this man releases sought shelter might even be where he lives mark.

Good morning bill you know this kind of a situation you know they they have.

They really don't have time on their side but during the time that they do have they're gonna try to develop as much intelligence on who they're dealing with and what might have triggered.

This act that this moment at this time.

They're going to try to find out as much as they can about the residence where he was -- where -- is actually barricaded himself with the location in that.

Residents -- -- to himself making sure that there's no exit point that they don't know about.

Evacuate the area and try to make contact with the suspect.

And find out if there is a specific demand.

And certainly they want to know his mental state and just exactly is it just exactly how to communicate with him and possibly friends or family that might be able to make that connection for the -- -- you know mark you know you have a dead school bus driver who is absolutely innocent and all of this and and you're wondering.

About the safety and security of the six year old child.

How do you talk him out of keeping that -- with him.

Well -- you know this is this is a specialty that very few police officers.

Ever.

Really get involved in I was not -- let's use some common sense here.

What are -- demands and then you try to talk him down from what is already are catastrophic situation and actually getting worse in other words.

We're not going to kill you we need you to come out we need you to give up the child we need we need you to do certain things in good faith and we'll do certain things in good faith.

But that is with you know the understanding that he actually understands those things we don't know his mental state we don't know what actually threw him and to.

This act where he actually took a hostage and -- -- bus driver so.

It it's very difficult right now and it's it's a tentative situation and you always also have to be.

Conscious that he might be watching the media and listen -- to the media that clearly watching this broadcast right now.

I would get a lot of information from the Dothan police down there and Alabama what we understand now through the Associated Press is that he was expected to appear in court.

Possibly even today on -- charge of threatening his own neighbors.

If that's the case people in this area knew about this man.

-- bill it's -- it's your typical situation where everybody.

-- there are there is a problem.

And fails to notify thinking somebody else well or it's no big deal or it's an isolated incident.

How many times do we see these situations in fact it any situation of violence whether it's domestic or otherwise.

Where people go backwards ago while -- he was kind of angry yes he was violent yeah I had a fight with the and you see these people that have never talked to each other now collectively talking about one person or accident and it and the evidence is error the clues are there are court.

-- -- -- now showed -- have been scheduled to be appear in court Wednesday morning today.

Charge -- menacing neighbors as they drove by his house about a month ago he said to be in his sixties.

Neighbor said he yelled and fired shots over damage he claimed their pick -- truck.

Did to a makeshift speed bump in the dirt road of just reading that off the Associated Press there are mental issues involved in this -- Mark -- thank you out of sand point Idaho we hope.

This ends peacefully.

Twelve minutes now.

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