Midland City Alabama hostage scene being processed by authorities

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Jimmy Lee Dykes (Photo supplied by Alabama State Troopers)

MIDLAND CITY, Alabama -- "I need two boys six to eight years old," Jimmy Lee Dykes barked moments before shooting bus driver Charles Poland. "Six to eight years old. I mean it. Right now! Right now!"

In an set of exclusive audio tapes aired today by ABC News, Poland calmly stood his ground.

"Sorry, you're going to have to shoot me," Poland said.

The network also aired the 911 call 15-year-old Tre' Watts made while crouched down behind a bus seat.

"He just shot Mr. Poland," Watts said. "I think Mr. Poland is dead."

The shooting sparked a six-day standoff as Dykes pulled 5-year-old boy Ethan from the bus and into an underground bunker.

In a report from ABC News Senior Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas airing tonight on “World News with Diane Sawyer” and “20/20," law enforcement officials detail the negotiations and final rescue of Ethan that saw Dykes shot and killed. The report also aired today on "Good Morning America."

The decision to take the bunker, officials said, came as Dykes became increasingly erratic. It became apparent, they said, that Dykes wished to make a final statement, kill himself in front of a reporter and had instructed Ethan to flip the switch of an IED to kill himself.

"At the end of this [expletive] day," Dykes growled, "there's going to be a determination ... as to ... just exactly what the hell is going to take place. You just go ahead and send some mother****** down that g*****n funnel over there to their death.

"You're scared. You know g******n well I'm smarter than most of you [expletive]. You know g****n well I have the knowledge, I have the experience, I have the ability and I have the balls to show just how g*****n corrupt this system is ... just how corrupt you people are."

"You know g*****n well what I'd say when I go public," he said. "It's going to create chaos. It's going to create riots. ... People are going be standing up to this [expletive] dictatorial, incompetent, self-righteous, bunch of sorry bastards in government."

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