Heard a PanPan from uscg mobile sector... four children in the water Dauphin I. AL. all be on look out etc. and no more information.
Later saw the news ...
Man says he threw tots off bridge
Wednesday, January 09, 2008By KATHERINE SAYREStaff Reporter
An Irvington man has confessed to killing his four children by throwing them off the Dauphin Island Bridge into the waters below, authorities said Tuesday.
Lam Luong, 37, was arrested on four counts of murder and was being transferred to Mobile County Metro Jail late Tuesday evening, police said.
Bayou La Batre police said Luong confessed to killing 4-month-old Danny Luong, 1-year-old Lindsey Luong, 2-year-old Hannah Luong, and 3-year-old Ryan Phan on Monday morning. Joyner said that although Phan is not Luong's biological child, Luong had raised him from the time he was an infant.
Authorities launched a search Tuesday evening of the waters near the bridge, using boats and a helicopter. Although bad weather later forced them to stop, they planned to continue the search today, officials said.
Lt. Richard Cayton with the Sheriff's office said no signs of the children were discovered after several hours of searching the waters between the mainland of south Mobile County and Dauphin Island.
Bayou La Batre Police Chief John Joyner said Luong had reported his children missing on Monday, claiming that a woman who had his kids had not returned them.
Investigators determined that story to be false, and when police questioned Luong on Tuesday afternoon, he confessed to the slayings, Joyner said.
Luong told police that he threw his four young children from the bridge to Dauphin Island on Alabama 193, sometime Monday morning, Joyner said.
The acts appeared to be revenge aimed at Luong's wife, whom police did not name, after the couple had a dispute, he said.
Officials with the U.S. Coast Guard, the Alabama Marine Resources Division, and the Mobile County Sheriff's office were involved in the search, authorities said.
Rough water and fog forced investigators to stop operations late Tuesday evening, Cayton said, and the search will resume at 6:30 a.m. today.
Ralph Pollack, a 48-year-old employee at Cedar Point Fishing Pier near the Dauphin Island bridge, said he saw as many as three boats and a helicopter with a bright spot light scouring the waters near the bait shop.
"It was a big search," Pollack said. "Something serious is going on."
District Attorney John Tyson Jr. said Luong will be charged with four counts of capital murder because the crime involves multiple killings of children.
"That's as bad as it gets under Alabama law," Tyson said.
Anyone with any information about suspicious activity on or near the Dauphin Island bridge on Monday is being asked to call any of the following law enforcement offices: Bayou La Batre police at (251) 824-2757, Mobile County Sheriff's office at (251) 574-8633 or Dauphin Island police at (251) 861-5523.
Some sick puppies in this world..
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