MIT: Shooter On Loose; Officer Down

Atlantic Wire ^ | 18 April 2013

[NautiNurse]

MIT issued an emergency alert at 10:48 on Thursday night reporting shots fired on the university campus. The school newspaper reports, "Shots fired near 32 Vassar St (Stata Center), police officer down. Please stay inside." That report is backed up by CBS News's Bonney Kapp who reports hearing "officer down" on the police scanner just before the MIT alert went out. For now, details are scarce, but the suspect is on the loose and considered armed and extremely dangerous.

[penelopesire]

I think it is the bomber perps..pay cash for gas..they have the tag number. The whole city is looking for them. They have video at shell station.

[penelopesire]

Are you listening to this crap too? They were both armed with handguns.

[amom]

137NZ1 BK mercedes SUV... both ME... one light skidded...driver was armed. They went into shell station paid cash for gas then took off. That is when the victim ran.

[LongWayHome]

Yup....

[penelopesire]

Sounds like them...wow!!

[amom]

They have video at shell station.

I didn't know that. That's where they got this most recent info from. Excellent work!! Fled towards Harvard Square.

[amom]

Sounds like them...wow!!

From your lips...

[blam]

"When they were showing a picture of one of the bomb suspects on CNN a few minutes ago, I noticed a guy a few feet away from him, and the guy had an MIT sweatshirt on. I know that’s probably just random given the proximity to MIT, but I found it coincidental as they had just reported on the shooting a couple minutes prior."

That's probably normal because my mind went there too.

[Sarah Barracuda]

All over twitter they are saying the suspects are BOTH middle eastern men..my spidey senses are tingling right now I think its THEM

[penelopesire]

No..the cops on his trail said that the shell station they stopped for gas has video.

[LongWayHome]

Lockdown over at Boston U. That’s not too close to MIT though.

[pnz1]

So these two had something to do with shooting of MIT officer too?

[Jet Jaguar]

Bump

[penelopesire]

Yep..me too. God be with those cops. Fancy car those bombers hijacked. Only the best for our foreign terrorists...lol

[amom]

Sorry. Understand.

[kevao]

If it’s them, I hope the local cops take them into custody before Holder’s people can plant Sarah Palin books and Gadsen flags on them.

[penelopesire]

Gone quiet.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Yep..arabs love their fancy cars..you can’t find a Mercedes in Pakistan..I defy anyone that can locate one of those in Islamabad LOL

[amom]

So these two had something to do with shooting of MIT officer too?

Not that I am aware of... that shooter was 200 lbs...these guys are 150ish.

[LongWayHome]

I’m on local TV now. The still think it’s 1 guy.