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One Boston Bombing Suspect Dead, Other Still On The Loose
By Igor Volsky and Ryan Koronowski on Apr 19, 2013 at 4:14 am
Law enforcement officials believe that one suspect in Monday’s bombing of the Boston Marathon was killed Friday morning after a shootout and car chase with police, while the other is still on the loose. NBC’s Pete Williams reports that the two are brothers, age 19 and 20, and are legal permanent residents of the United States, living in Cambridge. The first suspect was taken into custody by police and was pronounced dead at Beth Israel Hospital at 1:35 AM. As many as nine thousand police officers are now conducting a door-to-door search for the second individual, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev according to NBC, and are asking residents to stay in their homes.
The two robbed a 7/11, killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus police officer in his car after 10 PM on Thursday night and later carjacked a Mercedes SUV. Pete Williams of NBC News reports that the suspects told the man that they killed a police officer and were the marathon bombers. The owner of the car was held at gunpoint for 30 minutes and later released near a gas station in Cambridge.
The men then led police on a chase to Watertown, where they exchanged gunfire and threw bombs out of the vehicle window at law enforcement, including one made from a pressure cooker. They stopped the car in Watertown, where the first suspect got out, was shot and likely detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) strapped to his chest. The second suspect drives on and later abandons the car.
The second suspect — who was seen in a white hat in pictures released by the FBI on Thursday — is wearing a grey hoodie, armed, and dangerous. “We believe this to be a terrorist. We believe this to be a person who came here to kill people,” Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said in a press briefing Friday morning. A picture of suspect two from the Boston PD:
At least one police officer was injured and is in critical condition. There may be several undetonated explosive devices on the streets of Watertown and buses are now evacuating residents. Police have shut down the public transportation system and have asked all businesses in the area to remain closed until further notice. Local schools, colleges, and universities are also closed.
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One Boston bombing suspect dead; one sought
www.usatoday.com
One suspect wanted in connection with the deadly bombing near the finish line of the Boston Marathon has been taken into custody and police
Donna Leinwand, Kevin Johnson, Yamiche Alcindor and William M. Welch, USA TODAY7:34 a.m. EDT April 19, 2013
Story Highlights
One suspect in the deadly Boston Marathon bombing still at large
Development comes as police engaged in a gunfight, with explosions heard, in Watertown, Mass.
BOSTON -- The city and parts of its suburbs were locked down Friday as the manhunt intensified for the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, hours after the other suspect was killed in a dramatic firefight with police in nearby Watertown, authorities said.
The fugitive is Dzhokar Tsarnaev, 19, the brother of the dead suspect who was not immediately identified, law enforcement authorities told USA TODAY. Both suspects have been in the U.S. for about a year, living as legal U.S. residents in Cambridge, and authorities are reviewing their possible ties to Chechnya, said the official who is not authorized to comment publicly.
The surviving suspect is believed to be the same Boston Marathon bombing suspect who dropped a backpack laden with explosives at the site of the second explosion.
Massachusetts shut down all mass transit, including buses and trains, in Boston and surrounding suburbs, Kurt Schwartz, director of Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency said. Schools were closed and classes canceled at most universities.
Colonel Timothy Alben, Superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police said the first suspect from Monday's bombing was shot by police in a gunfight following a pursuit that began Thursday night in Cambridge and ended a short time later in Watertown. He said that suspect died at a hospital.
Schwartz asked all businesses in Watertown, Newton, Waltham, Belmont, Cambridge and the Alston and Brighton neighborhoods of Boston to remain closed and al residents of those area to remain indoors until the bombing suspect is caught. Watertown Police Chief Edward Deveau said his town would be closed to traffic.
"This situation is grave," Massachusetts State Police Superintendent Timothy Alben said. "We are here to protect public safety."
Alben described the second suspect as a light-skinned or Caucasian male with brown curly haird ressed in a gray hooded type sweat shirt.
"We are concerned about securing the area and making sure this individual is taken into custody," he said. "We believe this to be a terrorist. We believe this to be a man who has come here to kill people."
Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis told reporters the man they are seeking is armed and dangerous. A transit police officer was also critically wounded in the pursuit.
A transit police officer was reported in critical condition after being shot.
The manhunt for the marathon bombing suspects turned into hot pursuit at 10:30 p.m., when the two men robbed a 7-11 convenience store on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Alben said. A few minutes later, police found an MIT campus police officer shot multiple times in his car, Alben said.
The police officer died of his injuries at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Boston Police mobilize in the parking lot of the Watertown Mall early on April 19, 2013, in Watertown, Mass. An MIT officer was shot and killed late Thursday night at the school's campus in Cambridge. A short time later, police reported exchanging gunfire with alleged carjackers in Watertown, a city near Cambridge. One suspect has been killed, and the police are seeking another -- believed to be the man in the white cap suspected in the Boston Marathon bombing.
An MIT officer was shot and killed late Thursday night at the school's campus in Cambridge. A short time later, police reported exchanging gunfire with alleged carjackers in Watertown, a city near Cambridge. One suspect has been killed, and the police are seeking another -- believed to be the man in the white cap suspected in the Boston Marathon bombing.
The suspects then car-jacked a Mercedes SUV, Alben said. Police found the car and the suspects in Watertown, and pursued them into a residential neighborhood where gunfire was exchanged.
Witnesses report hearing between 15 and 50 shots.
Alben said the suspects also threw explosives from the car. Residents, witnesses and media in the area heard at least two large booms.
A Massachusetts law enforcement official, speaking on condition he not be identified by name, said that the suspect who died is thought to be the first suspect in the FBI photos of the alleged bombers, wearing a dark hat.
The Middlesex district attorney's office said in a statement that police responded to reports of an armed carjacking by two males who held a victim at gunpoint for half an hour before being released uninjured.
Police could be seen with guns drawn one one man face down on a paved street. CNN later reported that man was released by police.
The Massachusetts State Police issued a Tweet at 3:45 a.m. saying police "will be going door by door, street by street, in and around Watertown'' searching for the at-large suspect.
The state police also advised residents in and around Watertown to stay inside. "Do NOT answer door unless it is an identified police officer,'' the department said.
The events unfolded overnight as the entire Boston metro area was on high alert following Monday's fatal bomb explosions during the Boston Marathon and as the FBI was leading a massive manhunt for suspects. The developments came on a day when the FBI issued photographs of two men that it said it is seeking and were seen in surveillance video carrying backpacks in the marathon race crowd on Monday before the twin explosions.
"I heard sirens, then a ton of gunshots.,'' said Adam Healy, 31, a behavioral specialist for autism who lives less than a mile from the scene. "And then I heard an explosion amid the gunshots. After the explosion, the sky lit up. "
Dan MacDonald, 40, sitting in a second story Watertown apartment, said he first heard sirens, then gunshots.
"It was about 10 to 15 shots. then there was an onslaught," he said. "There were 25 to 60 shots within 45 seconds. Then the shots stopped and boom. It was like dynamite."
Contributing: John Bacon in McLean, Va.; Melanie Eversley in Boston |
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Fri Apr 19, 2013 6:43 am |
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http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/04/19/17823210-morning-maddow-april-19?lite
Morning Maddow: April 19
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Huge developments overnight in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation: one suspect is dead, the other is still at large and considered very dangerous His name is reportedly Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19 One MIT police officer killed in the manhunt You can hear several minutes of gu …
Janice Barrett (commentor)
So much for CNN's exclusive report that a "dark-skinned" individual was a suspect
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Fri Apr 19, 2013 6:46 am |
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Jim Kiertzner
Wow, major developments overnight in the Boston bombing.
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Dave Barber MBTA and Amtrak from PVD to BOS all closed. MIT, Harvard closed. Many cities bordering Watertown are all locked down. Cops going door to door.
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Fri Apr 19, 2013 6:52 am |
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Dave Starr
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| They're from Cechnya, home of Muslim extremists. Libs will be disappointed that they weren't "right wing extremists". |
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Fri Apr 19, 2013 7:01 am |
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| Media is still arguing if Russian or not. They have been in America for several years as the one being sought won a scholarship for high school students in 2011. |
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Fri Apr 19, 2013 7:06 am |
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Dave Starr
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| MSDNC defending them as victims of oppression? |
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Dave Starr
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CNN reports the family fled Chechnya for Kazakhstan several years ago before ending up in Boston.
The older (deceased) brother was a college student at Bunker Community College, had aspired to become an engineer. He once posted on a social media account, “I don’t have any American friends, I don’t understand them.”
CNN states on air, “They are Islamic.” |
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Pushing buttons sure can be fun.
When a lion wants to go somewhere, he doesn’t worry about how many hyenas are in the way.
Paddle faster, I hear banjos. |
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Fri Apr 19, 2013 7:18 am |
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Dave Starr
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Fri Apr 19, 2013 7:56 am |
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MotherJones.com Exclusive.....
Boston Bombing Suspect Posted Video on Al Qaeda Prophecy on YouTube
www.motherjones.com
The deceased suspect in the bombing of the Boston marathon, which killed three and injured more than 170, appears to have posted a video extolling an extremist religious prophecy associated with Al Qaeda to his YouTube page. |
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Fri Apr 19, 2013 8:26 am |
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| Every news media, within the last hour, has a different story . They have been Turkish, Russian and Checnya. Just heard a report that suspect was born in Kurdistan which is northern Iraq. |
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Fri Apr 19, 2013 8:28 am |
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Their facebook pages state they are I$lamic. Or were in the case the older brother and to my liberal friends, sorry no Tea Party members.
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Fri Apr 19, 2013 8:59 am |
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Dave Starr
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| "Dzhokhar Tsarnaev" is Chechen for "Bill Ayers" |
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Pushing buttons sure can be fun.
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Fri Apr 19, 2013 9:33 am |
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pan8
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quote:
Dave Starr schreef:
"Dzhokhar Tsarnaev" is Chechen for "Bill Ayers"
Thank you Dave. My "Chechen" at best is non existent. Now that I think about it I can't understand Al or Jesse either. 
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