On January 29, 2013, a
hostage crisis, lasting almost seven days, began in the
Wiregrass Region near
U.S. Highway 231 in
Midland City, Alabama. Jimmy Lee Dykes, a 65-year-old
Vietnam War-era veteran boarded a
Dale County school bus, killed the driver, and took a five-year-old boy hostage. On the afternoon of Monday, February 4, law enforcement agents entered the bunker, killed Dykes, and rescued the child hostage.