One dead after Alabama school bus shooting, child seized | Reuters
The gunman fled to a bunker near his home hours after the shooting, but it was not immediately clear if he still had the child, who local media variously identified as 5 or 6 years old, the Dothan Eagle newspaper said.
"All we know is he shot the bus driver and took a 6-year-old child," Carol Shephard told the paper, saying her own child had been on the bus at the time of the incident.
The shooting comes as the nation is on edge about gun violence, especially in schools, after a gunman shot dead 20 students and six staff members at a Connecticut elementary school last month, stoking a national debate on gun control.
The suspected shooter remains barricaded in the bunker and law enforcement officials were negotiating with him, according to media reports.
Would have been great if a concealed permit carrying citizen on or near the scene, could have defused this situation before it ever got off of the ground, and so the left still can't figure out this response time issue, in which allows the perp to cause all kinds of harm before the law gets there finally. Now a 5 or 6 year old is held hostage in this situation, and the bus driver is dead or injured badly as a result of this attack ? Such an attack could easily have been done with a knife also, but with a more gruesome effect that would have cast terrible fear into the witnesses, especially into the hostage that was taken at such a young age. So sad this is, in which we are witnessing in America right now today.
Getting tough on crime is a start, and it is where we need to go finally.. This ***** footin around has created a nation that is now living in fear, while the criminals or killers are shockingly defended in this nation by the powerful idiots, and therefore they are controlling the situations thus far. The agenda of the left is a huge failed agenda and/or vision they have, in which is or has been politically motivated in every step of the way now, and these sacrifices that are now being made in respect to it all, has blood on the hands of the left big time now, but they (the dems and/or the left) sure have racked up the power and the money in all of this to date now havn't they ?
The repubs, now they have been guilty of GREED, and this has blinded them over time, as they are now the target of the agenda on the left because of, and this at all cost now they are being pursued, so I hope the repubs are happy for their forsaking of their own morals and values in which were once relished and/or held by them in this nation once upon a time, because they sold this nation up the river when had the power, and this for exceedingly concentrated wealth being distributed among so few for whom they allowed into the clique or created as a clique, while the rest of us became vulnerable and weak in the process. They should be ashamed of every act or event taking place now, because they are guilty also in their weakness in which they have created for many who were affected by their GREED.
Now the tide has turned against them for what they have done, and the waves keep coming in stronger and stronger now, so I hope they can swim like they have hoarded their taken money over time.
Now we have to make examples out of criminals who have no respect for life in these ways, as it is the only way to get this situation back under control in America, and that is my opinion otherwise as a territory federal hanging judge by appointment, and that's if they would elect me as such right now today. I garantee you that I would fix these problems, but as you all know there is always a storm and then the calm afterwards, so the storm would rage for a while, but the calm would come very soon afterwards upon my resolve due to such an appointment. The reason these things are allowed to keep going without harsh punishments given, is because of an agenda that is being fullfilled, in which also allows for causalties in the wake of the overall visions that are being sought after. What other explanations are there ?