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One Boston Marathon Suspect Dead, Second On The Run

Brianna Sacks |
April 19, 2013 | 2:14 a.m. PDT

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(Boston Marathon suspects photos released by FBI/screen shot NBC, Brianna Sacks)
(Boston Marathon suspects photos released by FBI/screen shot NBC, Brianna Sacks)

CORRECTION: Earlier versions of this story incorrectly identified the two suspects.

Two high ranking law enforcement sources confirm that a bloody and chaotic chain of events in Massachusetts involve the two Marathon Bombing suspects. One is reported dead. The other is still on the loose as hundreds of police and FBI agents tighten the hunt. The killing of a police officer at MIT Thursday night and a carjacking led to a prolonged shootout with bullets and grenade-like bombs in Watertown, near Boston, NBC News reported.

The first suspect, who was captured during the shootout and taken into custody, died in the hospital, according to Boston Police.

Ed Davis, the Boston police commissioner, said,  "what we are looking for now is a suspect consistent with the description of Suspect Number Two"—"the white-capped individual" whose picture had been released by the FBI in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings. He called him a terrorist, that he was armed and dangerous and out to kill people.

 

 

 

 

Two suspects, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, have been named by Boston authorities.

Pressure cookers were also found at the Watertown shootout, a key link to the explosives found at the Boston Marathon bombings on Monday.

  SEE ALSO: Marathon Suspects Tied To Chaotic Shootouts in Massachussetts

Police released new, more detailed images of the suspects at around 5 p.m. EST. About six hours later, M.I.T. issued an alert warning that there was gunfire on campus, and then all hell broke loose.

The chaotic Watertown, Mass. shootout occured shortly after the fatal shooting of a M.I.T. police officer earlier Thursday evening. Another one remains in the hospital, injured but alive.  The two young men, armed with multiple guns and explosives, stole a car and led police on a wild chase into Watertown, according to Cambridge Police Commissioner Robert Haas and MIT Police Chief John DiFava.

CBS News reports that another police officer died in the violent, turbulent shootout in Watertown, another has been critically injured.

Watertown resident Andrew Kitzenberg told NBC that The gunmen used "bombs that looked like grenades."

NBC News reported SWAT agents were investigating a Watertown building where multiple motion sensors went off about an hour ago, and police believe that may be where the second suspect is hiding. He is believed to be armed and dangerous, and may have an explosive device strapped to his chest, according to the Boston Police Scanner, though that has not been officially confirmed by authorities.

  SEE ALSO: FBI Releases Photos Of Boston Marathon Suspects

Twitter exploded with witness accounts and conflicting media reports as police cars careened into the area and the next few frightful, frantic hours of Thursday night unfolded into Friday morning.

Watertown residents and other Bostonians tweeted the sounds and photographs of explosions, gun shots, screeching sirens and hundred of police officers emerging on the scene as the rest of those following the situation tried to piece together what exactly was happening in Massachusetts. Officers were screaming about improvised explosive devices left in backpacks and hand grenades being launched at police cars, according to the Boston Globe.

Peter Jennings, 33, told the Boston Globe that he was sleeping just before 1 a.m. in his home on Prentiss Street in Watertown when he was awakened by a huge boom.

“It sounded like a stick of dynamite went off,” he said. “I looked out the window, and it was like nothing I’ve ever seen – blue light after blue light after blue light.”

FBI agents are also on the scene:

“We are aware of the situation, we are being involved, and we are monitoring,” said an FBI representative who requested anonymity because of not being authorized to speak publicly. The FBI source said early Friday it is “too early to speculate” on a relation to the Marathon bombing.

Residents were being pulled out of their homes by police as a precaution while officers combed the area for the suspects, as well as other explosives. The state police then ordered residents back into their homes as the chase deescalated and tweeted that they would be going "door by door, street by street, in and around Watertown" until the situation clears.

  SEE ALSO: Boston Marathon Bombing: Facts And Fiction In Chaos

Michael Skolnik, editor-in-chief of the Global Grind, has been live tweeting the Watertown event for the past few hours:

"police are at house right now where there are motion devices. waiting for bomb squad/FBI to show up to help them. could be safe house."

"police are saying that first suspect # 1 might of had an explosive on his chest and detonated when he was detained. wow."

The investigation is intense, expansive and ongoing. Neon Tommy will be following the story and tying together all that happened tonight and early Friday morning, and hopefully what led to the first explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon Monday afternoon.

Read Neon Tommy's coverage on the Boston Marathon and shootings.



 

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