Boy safe, abductor dead in Ala. standoff

Posted By: Associated Press · 2/4/2013 5:35:00 PM

Officials say they stormed a bunker in Alabama to rescue a 5-year-old child being held hostage there after his abductor was seen with a gun.

Steve Richardson with the FBI's office in Mobile said at a news conference Monday afternoon that negotiations deteriorated and that 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes had been seen with a gun. 

At that, officers believed the child was in imminent danger. 

Officers entered the bunker just after 3 p.m. CST. 

It was not immediately clear how Dykes died.

Photo:  Alabama Department of Public Safety

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