MORE than three days after he allegedly shot dead a school bus driver, grabbed a five-year-old child and slipped into an underground bunker in the rural US, Jimmy Lee Dykes is showing no signs of turning himself over to police.
Hostage negotiators spoke into a narrow ventilation pipe leading into the bunker, trying to talk the 65-year-old, said to hold anti-government views, into freeing the boy.
One local official said on Friday the child had been crying for his parents.
Dykes, described by neighbours as threatening and violent, is accused of pulling the boy at random from the bus on Tuesday and killing the driver who tried to protect the 21 children aboard.
The gunman and the boy were holed up in a small underground room on his property that authorities likened to a tornado shelter, not uncommon in the rural South.
A state legislator said the shelter has electricity, food and TV, and there were signs that the standoff along a dirt road could continue for some time.
James Arrington, police chief of the neighbouring town of Pinckard, said the captor has been sleeping and told negotiators that he has spent long periods in the shelter before.
"He will have to give up sooner or later because (authorities) are not leaving," Arrington said. "It's pretty small, but he's been known to stay in there eight days."
Midland City Mayor Virgil Skipper said he has visited the boy's parents.
"He's crying for his parents," Skipper said. "They are holding up good. They are praying and asking all of us to pray with them."
Politician Steve Clouse said the boy's mother told him her child has Asperger's syndrome, an autism-like disorder, as well as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. Police have been delivering medication to him through the pipe, he said.
No motive has been discussed by investigators, but the police chief said the FBI had evidence suggesting it could be considered a hate crime. Federal authorities have not released any details about the standoff or the investigation.
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