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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAlabama Hostage Standoff: Jimmy Lee Dykes Seized Boy to Gain Attention
Feb 6, 2013 4:45 AM EST
The 65-year-old man who took Ethan hostage and engaged the FBI in a standoff wanted to get on TV and show how important he was, that he was the boss, sources tell Michael Daly.
What 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes wanted when he took his young hostage was to get on national TV and demonstrate to everybody that he was as important as he imagined himself to be.
Hes a guy whos a nobody who doesnt feel that way about himself, a source with intimate knowledge of the case says. Grandiosity.
The source surmises that Dykes saw all the media attention generated by the Newtown massacre and decided that school kids and guns were just the way for him to get a lot of attention.
He figured if he wanted to get on national news, kidnapping a kid off a school bus was going to give him a platform, the source says.
Dykes apparently planned to take two kids hostage from the school bus in rural Alabama on January 29, but they bolted out the back door as the driver confronted him. Dykes shot the heroic driver to death and was able to grab only a 5-year-old named Ethan.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/06/alabama-hostage-standoff-jimmy-lee-dykes-seized-boy-to-gain-attention.html
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Alabama Hostage Standoff: Jimmy Lee Dykes Seized Boy to Gain Attention (Original Post)
DonViejo
Feb 2013
OP
Which is why it was a good thing that the media kept this pretty low key.
Sheldon Cooper
Feb 2013
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nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)1. Ok, how shocked should I be? Or rather pretend to be?
Tom and I talked about it. We even talked on a way to responsibly cover something like this...since we just may. It includes very little actual info that might help the hostage taker, and if a photo is taken of the PIO, will show a lovely sky.
ret5hd
(20,439 posts)4. I'm glad you found a way to make this about you.
Archae
(46,266 posts)2. Lee Harvey Oswald was like that too.
His own particular "cause" was his total support of Castro.
He was even on a local news program, filmed handing out leaflets.
Sheldon Cooper
(3,724 posts)3. Which is why it was a good thing that the media kept this pretty low key.
I'm glad they did that, and this jackass didn't get his wish.
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)5. They kept a low profile
Because the police asked them too...for very valid reasons mind you.
louis-t
(23,199 posts)6. Well, he got some attention.....
for all the good it did him. Asshole.