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Standoff: Man shoots bus driver, takes child

Posted: 01.30.2013 at 7:37 AM Updated: 01.30.2013 at 1:30 PM

Residents look over the school bus where a shooting occurred near Destiny Church along U.S. 231, just north of Midland City, Ala. on Tuesday. / AP photo

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Story updated: The gunman, identified by neighbors as Jimmy Lee Dykes, a 65-year-old retired truck driver, was known as "the crazy man" of the neighborhood.

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