A campus policeman responding to a disturbance call at MIT has been shot and killed outside one of its buildings.
People are being advised to stay indoors; the shooter is at large.
It’s unlikely to be connected to the marathon bombings, but it’s not impossible.
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Situation escalating, with what appears to be a police chase, many gunshots, and even explosions reported, in Watertown, where UD‘s sister-in-law lives.
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AP reports “an arrest is imminent” in the marathon bombings.
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Mr UD just spoke to his sister, who lives in the center of the activity. She had not long ago been awakened by a phone call from the police – they told her to stay inside. Just after that, she heard two explosions.
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Confirmed: The Watertown suspects are the marathon bombers. One of the bombers has been killed. The other remains at large.
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Police are now going door to door in Watertown.
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Events as of 8:00 AM Friday:
[T]he suspects [Chechen brothers with military experience, both of whom had been in the States for about a year] approached a police officer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and shot him in the head.
The two then stole the officer’s cruiser, robbed a nearby 7-Eleven, carjacked a Mercedes SUV and briefly kidnapped the driver, the sources said. The suspects threw explosives out the window during the chase that followed, they said. A Boston transit police officer was shot and wounded, authorities said.
The dead suspect — the man in the black hat from the FBI photos — had an improvised explosive device strapped to his chest, law enforcement officials said.
Kitzenberg said that the firefight ended when one of the shooters ran toward the Watertown officers and ultimately fell to the ground. Kitzenberg said he could not tell whether the man was tackled or had been shot.
The other drove the SUV through a line of police offcers at the end of the street, he said. A bullet from the gunbattle lodged in the wall of Kitzenberg’s apartment, he said.
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Remaining suspect just graduated from Rindge and Latin School, steps from our Cambridge house.