Explosions at Boston Marathon

Surviving Boston bombing suspect named as 19 year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

BREAKING: @AP sources say Boston
bomb suspects from Russia region
near Chechnya, lived in US at least 1
year

Authorities say that the 2 Boston
bomb suspects are brothers, are legal
permanent residents of Chechen origin

 

They killed a police officer last night

The
officer had multiple gunshot wounds and
was taken to a nearby hospital, where he
was pronounced dead, according to a
statement on the district attorney's website.

Gunshots were reported on the MIT campus
at 10:48 p.m. near the Ray and Maria Stata
Center, near Vassar and Main Streets,
according to an emergency notice posted on
the school's website. It advised those on
campus to stay indoors and away from the
building, and nearly an hour later it said
injuries had been reported.

After the gunshots at MIT, hundreds of cops
descended on nearby Watertown, where
residents heard gunshots and a loud
explosion.

 

New York Times

About 10:30, police received reports that
a campus security officer at M.I.T. was
shot while he sat in his police cruiser. He
was found with multiple gunshot wounds,
according to a statement issued by
Middlesex Acting District Attorney

A short time later, police received reports
of an armed carjacking of a Mercedes SUV
by two males

authorities asked all residents of the
towns of Watertown, Newton, Waltham
and Cambridge to stay home and stay
indoors. Watertown was locked down
early Friday morning, with no one
allowed to leave their homes and no
businesses allowed to open.

“This situation is grave, we are here to
protect public safety,” said Col. Tim Alben
of the Massachusetts State Police.
“We believe these are the same
individuals that were responsible for the
bombing on Monday at the Boston
Marathon,” Mr. Alben said. “We believe
that they’re responsible for the death of
an MIT police officer and the shooting of
an MBTA officer.”

Early Friday, a virtual army of heavily
armed law enforcement officers was still
going through houses in Watertown one
by one in a search for the second suspect.
Police had blocked off a 20-block
residential area and urged residents
emphatically to stay inside their homes
and not answer their doors.

With gunfire ricocheting around the
tranquil neighborhood, residents were
later told to go into their basements and
stay away from windows.

 

Washington Post


At 6:30 a.m., a time when residents of
the town would normally be waking up
and starting to head to work or school,
the streets were deserted save for a
massive police presence.
“We have an active search going on by
tactical teams. He’s considered armed
and dangerous,” Col. Timothy P. Alven,
said at a televised early morning news
conference.

Law enforcement officials said they are
shutting down the transportation
system and are instructing residents to
stay indoors because they believe
suspect No. 2 may be strapped with
explosives.
At the site of the shootout with police,
bomb squad technicians worked to
render secure several devices safe that
had been thrown after the stolen SUV
was stopped, Alven said.

 

Boston Police Dept. @Boston_Police
2m
#CommunityAlert : Door-to-door
search 4 suspect in Watertown
continues. Uniformed officers
searching. Community consent critical.

 

A Watertown resident, Andrew
Kitzenberg, 29, said he looked out
his third-floor window to see two
young men of slight build in
jackets engaged in "constant
gunfire" with police officers. A
police SUV "drove towards the
shooters," he said, and was shot
at until it was severely damaged.
It rolled out of control, Mr.
Kitzenberg said, and crashed into
two cars in his driveway.
The two shooters, he said, had a
large, unwieldy bomb. "They lit it,
still in the middle of the gunfire,
and threw it. But it went 20 yards
at most."

said another resident, Loretta Kehayias,
65, "I screamed. I've never seen anything
like this, never, never, never."

 

NBCWashington @nbcwashington
6m
#BREAKING : NBC News' Pete
Williams reports bombing suspect who
fled drove over his own brother as he
escaped.


Two law enforcement officials told NBC
News the suspects are believed to have
military experience.

The dead suspect was run over and had an
improvised explosive device strapped to
his chest, NBC News reported.

Authorities urged residents in Watertown,
Cambridge and other towns west of
Boston, as well as the Allston-Brighton
neighborhoods of western Boston, to stay
indoors. Mass transit was shut down and
businesses were asked not to open Friday.
People waiting at bus and subway stops
were told to go home. The MBTA has shut
down all public transportation systems .

 

This morning's search began (and is still
focused) in Watertown, but has since
expanded to include at least another half
dozen neighboring suburbs, effectively
leaving a large swath of the greater
Boston area in lockdown. City officials
have suspended all transit services while
the manhunt continues.

 

The older brother:

Originally from Chechnya, but living in the
United States since five years, Tamerlan
says: "I don't have a single American friend,
I don't understand them."

http://johanneshirn.photoshelter.co...or-Passport/G0000VQW7v6xWA7o/I000016v_q53EMd4

 

Shit is crazy, the guy who got away ran over his brothers body.