We Keep On Waiting

Four days ago a man shot a bus driver and took a five-year-old boy hostage. The man is keeping the boy in a bunker he made himself. Police are trying to negotiate with him to get the five-year-old home to his parents.

The boy has ADHD and Asperger's and the police have to give the boy his medicine through a PVC pipe they have fed into the bunker.


I know everyone is wanting to attack this man. I'm not justifying his actions in anyway. He's doing some terrible things. However, with the way his neighbors have described him it sounds as if he has Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Jimmy Lee Dykes was in the Navy from 1964 to 1969, it is said that he served in Japan during Vietnam. His neighbors said that he would take a flashlight and a shotgun out every night to patrol his land and he didn't like people to mess with his things.

It sounds to me he has a serious disorder that has never been treated. It is terrible that he has not gotten the help he has needed in the past forty-five years. I hope that the police are able to get this kid out of the bunker and home to his family.

Courtesy of AL.com