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Hostage negotiators work to free boy held in bunker

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    Jonathan Serrie reports from Midland City, Alabama

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Face of a suspected kidnappers.

We now have our first look at the man believed to be holding that five year old boy hostage for the last four days in an underground bunker in south Alabama.

Cops say 65 year old Jimmie Lee dykes on Tuesday boarded a school bus killed the driver kidnapped the little boy.

Folks who say they know the suspect described him as an angry and violent man who pulled guns on neighbors and -- beat to death a dog with a pipe.

Investigators tell us after the grabbed the boy he retreated to that bunker in the rural town of Midland city about twenty miles north of the Florida border.

Dykes has been holed up in that six by eight -- shelter ever since and by all accounts the little boy is very steered.

And the mayor of the town says he's crying for his mother.

So far in Britain negotiations to save him have reportedly gone nowhere but according to a friend of the -- pastor.

The boy's family is still remaining strong.

-- getting a lot of love from the community and out of the community from us this whole nation actually is coming together.

It's -- their support for the -- -- Complicating matters the five year old reportedly suffers from Asperger's syndrome which is on the spectrum of autism.

Fortunately authorities say they've been able to slide the boys medication down into that bunker through a pipe that sticks out of the ground.

Jonathan series live -- -- in Midland city Alabama tonight -- today we got to see this school bus involved in that fatal shooting.

Yeah that's right shot that's because authorities were towing the school bus away back to the school bus barn of a school bus had been sitting at the crime scene in this neighborhood since Tuesday afternoon that's when the gunman reportedly boarded -- demanding two hostages.

Witnesses say the driver Charles Poland refuse and that ultimately he was a hero standing between the gunman.

And the kids before making the ultimate sacrifice shot.

Well what do we know but funeral arrangements for that driver.

Yet the funeral -- schedules for 2 o'clock on Sunday a funeral for Charles Poland in junior.

The venue.

The Ozarks civic center where it's scheduled can hold.

5000 people I'm told but that may be what's needed to accommodate the community that's really rallying behind this -- bus drivers spam -- Jonathan -- on scene in lower Alabama tonight Jonathan thanks.

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