A pensioner who had been holding a five-year-old boy hostage for a week was shot dead and his captive freed in a dramatic end to a week-long siege.
Retired trucker and Vietnam veteran Jimmy Lee Dykes had been holed up with the child – who escaped unharmed – in an underground bunker in rural Alabama.
But after negotiations with the kidnapper broke down last night, police feared the youngster would be killed and moved to end the siege.
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