The site here marks where the bus driver was killed and the child kidnapped.
On Tuesday, January 29, 2013, a hostage crisis, lasting seven days, began in the Wiregrass Region near U.S. Highway 231 in Midland City, Alabama, when Jimmy Lee Dykes, a 65-year-old Vietnam era veteran boarded a Dale County school bus, killed the driver, and took a five-year-old boy hostage. On the afternoon of Monday, February 4, Law enforcement converged on the bunker, Jimmy Lee Dykes was dead, and the boy was safe.