Friday, April 19, 2013

Bombing Suspects

The FBI and the National Guard are on the scene in Watertown , Mass.
7 NEWS -WHDH.com live stream news in Boston is reporting that the two suspects  in the Marathon Bombings have been involved in a massive shoot out with the police.  Explosions have been heard and a pressure cooker bomb has been found.
One suspect was shot and died in the hospital,  the other suspect has not been apprehended and a manhunt is in progress.  He is believed to be in a residential neighborhood in a Watertown.  The police are warning all residents to stay locked in their homes,  not answer the door and call 911 immediately if they hear anything.
Swat teams are going house to house.  The Swat teams are moving in on a commercial building.  They are searching for suspect # 2 who wore the backward white cap in the surveillance photos.
It is being reported that there are several undetonated explosives being found in various places. 

http://www1.whdh.com/video/7newslive

UPDATE  -  The suspects have been identified as brothers from a Russian region near Chechnya.
Tamerian Tsarnaev, 26, known as suspect # 1 wearing a black baseball cap  in surveillance footage, was killed.  His brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, the white capped suspect, is still at large and the subject of a massive manhunt.  Police may be searching for two additional men.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was registered as a pre-med student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/breaking/canadian-border-officials-alerted-to-watch-for-boston-suspect/article_5bf54244-a8dc-11e2-818f-001a4bcf887a.html

http://www.nbc40.net/story/22021767/1-of-2-mass-bomb-suspects-dead-suburbs-shut-down

UPDATE -  Dozens of shots were heard at 7:00pm.  The police have the suspect surrounded.  Residents in the area have been evacuated.  Police believe the suspect is wounded and hiding in a covered boat in Watertown.   A  loud boom was heard at 7:50pm.  Flashes of light and more booms were being heard at 7:53pm.  The owner of the boat has confirmed that there are 20 to 40 gals of gas on the boat.  8:42 pm,  the suspect is in custody and is alive at this time.

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