Alabama Kidnapping

As FBI and police negotiators sought for days to coax an Alabama man into freeing a kindergartner held hostage an underground bunker, the captor was making plans of his own, authorities say.

A standoff in rural Alabama went into a second full day on Thursday as police surrounded an underground bunker where a retired truck driver was holding a 5-year-old hostage he grabbed off a school bus after shooting the driver dead.

Police, SWAT teams and negotiators were at a rural property where a man was believed to be holed up in a homemade bunker on Wednesday after fatally shooting the driver of a school bus and fleeing with a 6-year-old child passenger, authorities said.

As FBI and police negotiators sought for days to coax an Alabama man into freeing a kindergartner held hostage an underground bunker, the captor was making plans of his own, authorities say.

A standoff in rural Alabama went into a second full day on Thursday as police surrounded an underground bunker where a retired truck driver was holding a 5-year-old hostage he grabbed off a school bus after shooting the driver dead.

Police, SWAT teams and negotiators were at a rural property where a man was believed to be holed up in a homemade bunker on Wednesday after fatally shooting the driver of a school bus and fleeing with a 6-year-old child passenger, authorities said.