- Fri Apr 19, 2013 5:27 am
#22362
All of Boston, Cambridge, Watertown, Waltham, Newton, Belmont
WATERTOWN — A massive manhunt is underway this morning in Boston and several surrounding communities for one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon terror bombing attacks. A second suspect has died in a confrontation with police, while one police officer has been killed and another wounded.
Governor Deval Patrick asked people who live in the entire city of Boston, as well as the nearby communities of Watertown, Waltham, Newton, Belmont, Cambridge, to “shelter in place” — stay inside and not open their doors to anyone, except police with proper identification.
The search has also led to the sudden shutdown of the MBTA’s entire network of commuter rail, bus, and subway services. Taxi service was shut down. And officials requested businesses across the area not to open this morning.
“This is a serious situation. We’re taking it seriously,” Patrick said at an 8 a.m. media briefing in Watertown.
Colonel Timothy Alben, commander of the State Police, said law enforcement’s focus this morning is on neighborhoods in Watertown, where police are hoping to find the individual.
Authorities are searching for the man they dubbed Suspect No. 2 — the man wearing a white baseball cap. Suspect No. 1 — the man wearing the black cap — is dead.
The night of chaos began just hours after law enforcement released images Thursday afternoon of two suspects in the bombings at the Boston Marathon finish line Monday afternoon that left three people dead and more than 170 wounded.
The Associated Press reported this morning that the suspects came from the Russian region near Chechnya, which has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency. A law enforcement intelligence bulletin obtained by the AP identified the surviving bomb suspect as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old who had been living in Cambridge. The Globe has learned that the dead suspect is Tsarnaev’s brother.
Most of the region’s universities -- including Harvard, MIT, Boston University, Boston College, Northeastern, and Suffolk -- announced that they would be closed for the day.
The MBTA’s announcement that it was suspending service left people stranded at T stops and stations across Eastern Massachusetts. Highways were jammed with commuters.
http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/04 ... story.html
WATERTOWN — A massive manhunt is underway this morning in Boston and several surrounding communities for one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon terror bombing attacks. A second suspect has died in a confrontation with police, while one police officer has been killed and another wounded.
Governor Deval Patrick asked people who live in the entire city of Boston, as well as the nearby communities of Watertown, Waltham, Newton, Belmont, Cambridge, to “shelter in place” — stay inside and not open their doors to anyone, except police with proper identification.
The search has also led to the sudden shutdown of the MBTA’s entire network of commuter rail, bus, and subway services. Taxi service was shut down. And officials requested businesses across the area not to open this morning.
“This is a serious situation. We’re taking it seriously,” Patrick said at an 8 a.m. media briefing in Watertown.
Colonel Timothy Alben, commander of the State Police, said law enforcement’s focus this morning is on neighborhoods in Watertown, where police are hoping to find the individual.
Authorities are searching for the man they dubbed Suspect No. 2 — the man wearing a white baseball cap. Suspect No. 1 — the man wearing the black cap — is dead.
The night of chaos began just hours after law enforcement released images Thursday afternoon of two suspects in the bombings at the Boston Marathon finish line Monday afternoon that left three people dead and more than 170 wounded.
The Associated Press reported this morning that the suspects came from the Russian region near Chechnya, which has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency. A law enforcement intelligence bulletin obtained by the AP identified the surviving bomb suspect as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old who had been living in Cambridge. The Globe has learned that the dead suspect is Tsarnaev’s brother.
Most of the region’s universities -- including Harvard, MIT, Boston University, Boston College, Northeastern, and Suffolk -- announced that they would be closed for the day.
The MBTA’s announcement that it was suspending service left people stranded at T stops and stations across Eastern Massachusetts. Highways were jammed with commuters.
http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/04 ... story.html
