Black bunting at #MIT Police HQ in honor of Off. Sean Collier, 26. KIA in #Cambridge #BostonMarathonBombing #wcvb http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BIOSdJRCIAEx6jX.jpg
A suspicious package has been found in the Harrington Hall parking lot at Bridgewater State University. As a precautionary measure Woodward Hall and Harrington Hall have been evacuated. No other areas have been affected at this time. All classes in Harrington Hall are cancelled all day today.
Joe Bearto Junior said 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev came by on Tuesday to pick up his girlfriend's car, a Mercedes with a missing bumper. Junior said Tsarnaev seemed in a hurry. He said he has repaired the two brothers cars for about a year-and-a-half. He said they both seem very nice clean-cut guys. The never ranted against the government or show any signs that they would be violent, he said. Junior said the brothers associated with what appeared to be wealthy foreign students who drove fancy cars. Junior said he feels betrayed. Almost in tears, he said he feels guilty that he had the suspect and he let him go because he didn't know who he really was.
Snipers Watertown #wcvb http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BIOPl7BCEAAUxGV.jpg
16.31 (11.31) Mark Oliver from our Graphics team has put together a graphic timeline of last night's dramatic events in Watertown. Have a look.
Boston Marathon bombers: timeline since FBI photo release
16.45 (11.45) Let's have a round-up from David Blair.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old described as “armed and highly dangerous” is the target of a manhunt covering Boston and the surrounding area, where about one million people live.
His elder brother, Tamelan, 26, was killed by police in a firefight that rocked the suburb of Watertown in the early hours of Friday morning.
The two brothers, who are believed to be ethnic Chechens from southern Russia, are accused of planting the bombs that claimed three lives at the Boston Marathon on Monday.
Hours after police released photographs of the Tsarnaevs on Thursday, they “received reports of shots fired” at 10.20pm local time on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, according to a police statement.
Perhaps fearing discovery, the Tsarnaev brothers appear to have shot a police officer multiple times inside his vehicle, killing him instantly.
Police responded by sweeping the MIT campus, which has about 11,000 students. People were ordered to stay indoors and avoid the Stata building, which houses faculty offices and classrooms.
After killing the policeman, however, the brothers escaped from MIT by hijacking a passing car on Third Street in Cambridge. The driver was held at gunpoint for about half an hour and then released unharmed at a petrol station.
Police then located the car and pursued it to Watertown, a suburb on the western edge of Boston about 10 miles from the city centre. During the chase, the Tsarnaevs and the pursuing police officers opened fire, wagingi a fierce gun battle.
Update, 11:47 a.m. EST: Foreign Policy has put together a useful guide to Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s favorite YouTube videos.
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/04/19/a_guide_to_tamerlan_tsarnaevs_favorite_youtube_videos
Update, 10:37 a.m. EST: TheDC’s Patrick Howley has put together all we currently know about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the now-dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect. He “was a student at Bunker Hill Community College and a Golden Gloves boxer who trained at Wai Kru mixed martial arts gym in Boston and competed in a national Golden Gloves competition.” He also described himself as a “very religious” Muslim.
http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/19/dead-boston-bombing-suspect-was-a-very-religious-muslim-boxer/
Update, 10:20 a.m. EST: The now-deceased bombing suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, apparently posted a video touting an Al Qaeda-linked “prophesy.”
http://dailycaller.com/2013/04/19/suspected-boston-bomber-posted-al-qaeda-prophecy-video/