<p>Police teams swarmed a rural US property on Wednesday where a man accused of fatally shooting the driver of a school bus and fleeing with a 6-year-old passenger was thought to be hiding in a homemade bunker. Neighbours were evacuated, and one said she had been startled this week by the suspect’s stare.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The man boarded the bus in Midland City, Alabama, last afternoon and shot the driver when he refused to let the child off, Dale County Sheriff Wally Olsen told WBMA-TV.<br /><br />The shooter then took the child, authorities said. County coroner Woodrow Hilboldt told The Associated Press the standoff continued early today.<br /><br />“That’s what has been described to me as an underground bunker. Someplace to get out of the way of a tornado,” Hilboldt said.<br /><br />Neighbours said the rural property belonged to Jimmy Lee Dykes, a man in his 60s.<br /><br />Court records showed Dykes had been scheduled to appear in court this morning to face a charge of menacing neighbours as they drove by his house last month. The neighbours said he yelled and fired shots over damage he claimed their truck did to a makeshift speed bump in the dirt road.<br /><br />About 50 vehicles from law enforcement agencies were clustered at the mouth of that road on Wednesday. Reporters were being held back from the area and couldn’t see the home.<br />The coroner said the victim died of multiple gunshot wounds.</p>
<p>Police teams swarmed a rural US property on Wednesday where a man accused of fatally shooting the driver of a school bus and fleeing with a 6-year-old passenger was thought to be hiding in a homemade bunker. Neighbours were evacuated, and one said she had been startled this week by the suspect’s stare.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The man boarded the bus in Midland City, Alabama, last afternoon and shot the driver when he refused to let the child off, Dale County Sheriff Wally Olsen told WBMA-TV.<br /><br />The shooter then took the child, authorities said. County coroner Woodrow Hilboldt told The Associated Press the standoff continued early today.<br /><br />“That’s what has been described to me as an underground bunker. Someplace to get out of the way of a tornado,” Hilboldt said.<br /><br />Neighbours said the rural property belonged to Jimmy Lee Dykes, a man in his 60s.<br /><br />Court records showed Dykes had been scheduled to appear in court this morning to face a charge of menacing neighbours as they drove by his house last month. The neighbours said he yelled and fired shots over damage he claimed their truck did to a makeshift speed bump in the dirt road.<br /><br />About 50 vehicles from law enforcement agencies were clustered at the mouth of that road on Wednesday. Reporters were being held back from the area and couldn’t see the home.<br />The coroner said the victim died of multiple gunshot wounds.</p>