Child Hostage Held by Bus Driver

MIDLAND CITY, Ala. — Police, SWAT teams and negotiators kept vigil Wednesday morning near an underground bunker in rural Alabama where a gunman was holding a 6-year-old boy hostage after snatching him from a school bus Tuesday afternoon and killing the driver.

The Dale County Sheriff told WBMA-TV that the man shot the driver in Midland City on Tuesday afternoon when he refused to let the child off the bus. The 67-year-old driver later died of his wounds. His identity wasn't released.