Explosions at Boston Marathon

@CBSPittsburgh 13m
#BREAKINGNEWS : The Pittsburgh
Penguins @ Boston Bruins game
scheduled for tonight has been
postponed.

 

clearly thats a tank with the big gun on it.

 

now they are saying the brothers aren't suspected of robbing the 7-11

State Police had originally thought the brothers held up a convenience store and then thought an MIT police officer had a description of them. Friday afternoon, State Police said the brothers were not suspected in the robbery.

At 10:30 p.m. MIT campus police officer Sean Collier was found shot multiple times in his car in the area of Vassar and Main streets. He was rushed to Massachusetts General Hospital where he died.

According to WBZ-TV Chief Correspondent Joe Shortsleeve, the brothers ambushed Collier, shot him five or six times and once in the head. Collier never drew his weapon. His gun was found in his holster. Five 9 mm shells were found at the scene. It is unclear what led up to the shooting.

It’s not clear why the brothers allegedly killed the MIT officer, but the theory is the brothers may have seen him on his cell phone and they thought he was calling them in.

 

When his former colleagues there heard that officer Sean Collier had been killed Thursday night, they were "devastated."

"All the girls and dispatchers can't stop crying," Lt. William Rymill of the Somerville Police said. "It's a real shock to us. He was not liked, he was loved.

"We have lost a member of the family," he added. "We are devastated."

Collier's family released a statement today asking for privacy:

"We are heartbroken by the loss of our wonderful and caring son and brother, Sean Collier. Our only solace is that Sean died bravely doing what he committed his life to -- serving and protecting others. We are thankful for the outpouring of support and condolences offered by so many people."

 

Tank, APC or whatever. I want one. I could deer hunt bean fields with that thing.

 

Radio is saying they have him pinned down. They think he's in a boat in someone's yard

CBS News @CBSNews 55s
JUST IN: Boston mayor tells WBZ a
man, believed to be suspect,
surrounded by police in a boat sitting
in a residential backyard

RT @RT_com 2m
BREAKING: "It's him," say journalists
on scene in Watertown, where
#Boston bombing suspect is "pinned
down"

 

WBZ Boston News @cbsboston
3m
. @wbznewsradio says suspect was
found using thermal imaging from
helicopter.

Danger Guerrero@DangerGuerrero
7m
“Hold on. Has anyone checked that
boat?” - Ben Affleck, next year, in
character as a Boston detective, in a
movie directed by Ben Affleck