From what I can tell for sure, someone shot a cop multiple times on the MIT campus. Someone, maybe the same person(s), hijacked a SUV near MIT and got caught a short distance west in Watertown. A firefight is going on now involving automatic weapons and grenades.
Local media:
http://www1.whdh.com/video/7newslive
http://livewire.wcvb.com/Event/117th_Running_of_Boston_Marathon
Twitter has gone completely bonkers with people following the police scanner.
Tom Levenson and Anne, please stay safe. Jeebus.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
CNN is running unbelievable live feeds to local network
Narcissus
CNN Showed one gunman on the ground
YellowJournalism
The difference in coverage between the local feed and CNN late-night and CNN in normal daytime is amazing.
Mo
I work for Harvard. Have been getting texts through the evening that there was a shooting at MIT, nothing to do with Harvard, but to remain indoors.
About to go to bed an hour ago and heard explosions.
CNN is running the news from Channel 5 in Boston, which is usually reliable.
Narcissus
Is this the CNN International team?
MikeJ
Rumor of active shooter at Childrens hospital, but unconfirmed.
No shots fired.
YellowJournalism
Oh, there’s the first connection on CNN to the bombing suspects….then they try to take that back.
beltane
@Narcissus: He looks like a kid.
Comrade Mary
Boston scanner is here: http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6254/web
It’s crowded as hell: be patient about getting connected.
Tim F.
@MikeJ: rumors fly fast and loose during any chaotic event. I would give any report like that some time before you take it seriously.
MikeJ
Children’s hospital still in lockdown.
Mo
One thing about Boston area policing – if there is an officer down call – all officers from even from other towns are supposed to respond until told to stand down.
This is a fairly dense residential neighborhood, 2 and three family homes with commercial shops on the main street – Mt. Auburn, which is a major street with overhead trolley lines. They are probably a mile or so from Harvard Square.
mouse tolliver
MSNBC cut to a live feed of someone laying face down on the ground, not moving. They look dead. But not sure.
This is unrelated to the marathon bomb?
This is the week we find out the entire country is built over a hell mouth.
MikeJ
Cops trying to get emergency cleared at Children’s since there were not shots fired.
Comrade Mary
@Tim F.: Tim, that’s from the scanner, and the cops there were saying not confirmed. So it’s a confirmed unconfirmed story, rather than CNNPostShit.
Mo
Wow. I heard the boom too. I’m one town over – Arlington.
Violet
Crap. I have a good friend who lives in Cambridge. Residential area. Hope he’s safe.
YellowJournalism
@mouse tolliver: Elizabth Warren is secretly a Slayer and bankers are some sort of demon race, I bet.
MikeJ
Cops saying on radio there is NOT a second suspect in custody.
? Martin
@Mo:
Well, FBI and DHS are all over the damn place. Secret Service is likely still there. And Boston and surrounding PD are outstanding to begin with. Couldn’t have picked a worse place on earth to try something.
Comrade Mary
@Mo: That may be controlled demolitions of suspicious parcels.
? Martin
@Comrade Mary: It’s too fast to be that. A controlled demolition takes a good hour or more to set up. They don’t do that lightly or hurriedly.
Comrade Mary
@? Martin: OH shit.
Anne Laurie
I’ve been flipping thru the local channels for the past three hours (we’re a dozen miles from the area but the Spousal Unit works a few blocks from the original “incident” at the Strata Building).
Only solid news at this point is that an MIT cop was shot multiple times around 10:50pm and later died at MGH.
It’s been “searching for the gunman” ever since, ad it’s impossible to tell right now which of the several different incidents are connected to each other, much less whether any of them might have any connection to Monday’s bombings.
MikeJ
@? Martin:
NBC interviewed a local the other day who said that Boston was known for politics, sports, and revenge.
YellowJournalism
@Anne Laurie: good to know you’re okay. Stay safe all.
? Martin
Welp, doesn’t look like things are quite so calm any more (watching MSNBC). Everyone seemed to amp up all of a sudden.
nvm. It was tape even though it says live.
Suffern ACE
Then the good folk come out to see everything. Go back inside!
? Martin
@MikeJ: Don’t fuck with us Irish.
Comrade Mary
This is supposed to be a pic of first suspect (tonight’s evil, we don’t know for sure Monday’s evil) on ground, but grain of salt time: could be second guy who is a witness, not a suspect.
Comrade Mary
An arrest of a different guy, 2 minutes ago, from Seth Mnookin.
Hill Dweller
@? Martin: The WCVB reporter just described a guy being arrested right in front of him. But a by standard said it’s an innocent guy just getting off work.
Anne Laurie
@? Martin:
Second this. The news crews were all over this, in the first place, because they were doing “President Obama visited the Marathon victims today” live shots for the 11pm news when the first cruisers pulled up escorting the MIT trooper who’d been shot.
There have been a dozen varieties of security officers all over the area since Monday, and none of them were feeling complacent about their assignments.
Mo
It’s trash night there, so there are trash and recycling cans all over, don’t know why they would worry about packages.
As to the officer down – that is why there would be multiple jurisdictions involved. I’m noticing that on TV, but probably wouldn’t mean much to outsiders.
MikeJ
OK, so earlier they had a suspect down, transported to Beth Israel. Then they took this guy in to custody, who may or may not be involved.
Comrade Mary
@Hill Dweller: Yeah, could be walking while brown, or walking while brown with a backpack. I think my previous post has the picture of that arrest.
rb
Absolute chaos. Explosions and rapid gunfire. But no one has any idea whether this is connected to the shooting at MIT but some media implying it may not be. Local media straining to avoid connecting this to the marathon events; no one knows anything.
Suffern ACE
@Comrade Mary: yeah. If they carjacked, then there might be an unwilling passenger.
? Martin
@Comrade Mary: Not sure this guy actually got arrested. Haven’t heard anything about him since we saw that video, and there were certainly enough cameras nearby.
Comrade Mary
@? Martin: That might be the guy the scanner was saying was a witness, not suspect. Lots of confusion tonight.
Hill Dweller
FBI questioning cuffed man in back of an ambulance.
Mo
How dumb would you have to be to stick up a 7-11 in Cambridge these days.
Almost like the guy who stuck up a Dunkin Donuts next to the Area B precinct station just before the shift change.
Hill Dweller
Twitter: “Cops looking for clean cut middle eastern looking man wearing blue and white cap with snowflake decoration on it.”
Narcissus
Listening to the feed now, they’ve got cops sweeping neighborhoods.
kdaug
@? Martin:
WTH? Fucking explosions now in Watertown?
ETA: Not originally what I was going to say, but “breaking news”
? Martin
@Hill Dweller: That’s different. They showed another guy in custody and he was in the back of some kind of armored vehicle.
MikeJ
189 Mass ave, officers responding to male with a device.
How’s that for vague?
mdblanche
There are reports on Twitter of a bomb threat at Mount Auburn Hospital.
Mnemosyne
IF (and this is a big if) this is all related to Monday’s bombing, my guess is that the bombers got panicked by having their photos released.
Or a couple of idiots decided to do a garden-variety carjacking during a massive security crackdown.
MattR
Most recently arrested guy already released according to WCVB
Suffern ACE
@Hill Dweller: well duh. But if that’s true we’ve got the dumbest terrorists working. That’s wearing the same clothes you were just plastered all over the tv wearing three days after the crime. What is that, a lucky hat?
MikeJ
@mdblanche: Which is stupid. Mt Auburn hospital went on the radio and said, we’re done with emergencies for the night, shutting down. They called it “code black” and somebody overreacted.
Hill Dweller
The WCVB reporter just said the cops released the innocent guy who just got off work they had cuffed earlier.
rb
@Mnemosyne: Or a couple of idiots decided to do a garden-variety carjacking during a massive security crackdown.
And on a day POTUS was in town. Would be amazing but not shocking, if you know what I mean.
Pooh
http://live.boston.com/Event/MIT_and_Watertown_shootings fyi
Joel (Macho Man Randy Savage)
@Mnemosyne: the pipe bombs and automatic gunfire seem to indicate more than your garden variety crook, but one never knows. sure as shit the local media is doing a much better job than CNN or any of the Murdoch rags are.
Mnemosyne
@rb:
There’s always some idiot who doesn’t bother to watch the news and is surprised that so many cops tackle him for a liquor store robbery.
Pooh
@Joel (Macho Man Randy Savage): The stuff I’m seeing on twitter says handgrenades.
? Martin
@rb: I think it’s unlikely they were also armed in the manner being reported and willing to kill a police officer. I don’t think this was some common carjacking.
Mnemosyne
@Joel (Macho Man Randy Savage):
Automatic gunfire could (theoretically) be gangs. Bombs, not so much. As someone was saying in another thread, you don’t have too many heat-of-the-moment bombings.
MikeJ
BBC World referring to “Boston University Shooting” probably unaware of the existence of BU.
Mnemosyne
I have to go to bed now. I would joke about us having an earthquake by morning, but I don’t want to push our luck.
? Martin
Looks like a search underway a mile or so away from where we’re seeing the video.
Suffern ACE
@MikeJ: they probably wanted to write shooting in Cambridge but realized that that might alarm their viewers.
mclaren
Oh, come on, people. It’s just a copycat. Crazies like this come out of the woodwork whenever there’s a shooting or a bombing.
Nothing to see here, folks. Move along.
YellowJournalism
@Mnemosyne: Great, now we will definitely be waking up to a zombie apocalypse!
MikeJ
@Mnemosyne:
7.0 off Japan.
Hill Dweller
@? Martin: WCVB just aired a short video from someone who lived near Dexter and Watertown. It was a massive firefight.
? Martin
@mclaren:
Name one time that has ever happened before.
Gwangung
@mclaren: fuck off. One dead, two wounded. I repeat, fuck off and get a sense of empathy. And stop being so damn ignorant.
MattR
@? Martin: My complete speculation is the media is outside a secondary perimeter while they search inside a tighter primary area that the police think/hope they have locked down.
mdblanche
@Mnemosyne: For God’s sake, nobody make any cracks about bringing on the meteor tonight!
rb
@? Martin: in the manner being reported
Agree.
But note: “being reported.” Help yourself to a grain of salt.
Also it’s not 100% clear that this is actually connected to the MIT shooting, even though law enforcement certainly seems to think so.
Calouste
@MikeJ: They can’t use “Cambridge University Shooting”. No one is going to think of Harvard or MIT in the UK if you say Cambridge.
The early colonists should have had a bit more creativity in naming places.
Hill Dweller
The authorities are definitely still looking for someone.
MikeJ
Officers putting up perimeter around a house on Hazel st
MikeJ
@Calouste:
My thought was less about Boston/Cambridge and more about “University in Boston area” v “Boston University”.
kdaug
Damn.
This week has felt like Pogues’ Hell’s Ditch
(NSFW, kids).
? Martin
@rb:
There hasn’t be a murder in that area in over a year. It’s a very low crime area. This is clearly all one event.
Yutsano
@kdaug: In 45 minutes I kan haz Friday naow.
Comrade Mary
Did anyone else just hear someone’s name and DOB read out on the scanner? Not printing it here in case it’s another red herring, but it seemed weird.
Omnes Omnibus
@mclaren: You are a ghoul.
rb
@? Martin: Inclined to agree. But a lot of stuff that was “clearly” true over the past 48 hours has been retracted, no?
MikeJ
@Comrade Mary: Heard it but didn’t know what it was connected to.
Villago Delenda Est
@Narcissus:
The important thing is that John King and Leslie Blitzer need to remain confined to their comfy, comfy beds for the duration.
With restraints, if necessary.
Narcissus
Scanner: “Long guns fired at that scene, don’t know if it was good guys or bad guys”
Hill Dweller
WCVB aired the Watertown man’s video again. There were 25 gun shots in his very short video.
It was a gun fight on a residential street.
? Martin
Whoa.
Video of shootout.
Joel (Macho Man Randy Savage)
@Calouste: Not like their descendants were much better: seems like there’s a Boston, Newton, Watertown, and Lynn street in just about every city in the US.
Comrade Mary
NY Times has a story up.
MikeJ
Sounds like they’re pulling the cops from the surrounding areas. Cambridge, Boston cops heading back to their towns.
Narcissus
Scanner: “Got suh mawh swat guys heah, whattayaneed”
? Martin
@rb:
We didn’t witness any of those things, though. We’re watching quite a lot of this in real time. We don’t need to trust Wolf Blitzer’s stupid fucking sources on this one.
poptaracus
Like the song says “something happening here, what it is anit exactly clear” dont pay much attention to the media, rumour and speculation for the most part. Sad about the dead p.o.
Comrade Mary
FBI has released new photos of the marathon suspects.
Pooh
Globe is reporting marathon suspect in custody: https://twitter.com/GlobeJenPeter/status/325130671725096961
penpen
Jennifer Peter @GlobeJenPeter 5m
A marathon suspect is in custody as manhunt continues for another in Watertown, according to official with knowledge of the investigation.
? Martin
NYTimes:
max
Well, there’s a lot of shooting.
max
[‘If they stuck around, man, they’re dumb.’]
? Martin
Heh, Mary has faster internet than me up there in socialist Canada.
Comrade Mary
@? Martin: /blows smoke off keyboard
MikeJ
15 shots fired aberdeen & mt auburn?
? Martin
@max:
Maybe they weren’t finished. Dorner stuck around for precisely that reason.
JPL
@Pooh: Have we heard from John King yet. I also want to know the color of his skin.
Suffern ACE
@Narcissus: could you translate that into Midwestern?
Villago Delenda Est
@Comrade Mary:
Surprise, surprise, they’re young white men.
Whocoodanode?
rb
@Hill Dweller: Yes, there was definitely a lot of shooting.
? Martin
Wondering if those Senators are now having second thoughts about their votes yesterday. This is going to turn the heat under the gun debate up to 11. They’re going to look like the biggest fucking tools on earth when all of the details of this unwind.
Pooh
@JPL: Hey I’m just the messenger here.
Yutsano
@Comrade Mary: Fastest fingers in Tronno. :P
Hill Dweller
The Boston Globe has gone all in.
Pooh
@? Martin: As much as we say the “too soon” thing is stupid. I think while it’s still going on is in fact too soon.
Suffern ACE
@Pooh: yeah, I don’t trust sources close to investigations. They are watching the same tv we are.
Villago Delenda Est
@? Martin:
Lucky for them Reid changed his vote to “no” in order to bring it up for another vote.
They can change their votes, too.
AA+ Bonds
Christ
Comrade Mary
@Villago Delenda Est: Honestly, they could be almost anything: Western European, Euro-Mediterranean, North African, Jewish, Arab, South Asian …
I used to have a (German) brother in law. Everyone else in his family was fair skinned and blue eyed with light brown hair. He had dark olive skin, dark eyes and hair, and facial features that made him look Arab or Indian. No, he was not adopted.
I’m still waiting and seeing.
Hill Dweller
Here is a pic of a bullet hole through someone’s wall.
AA+ Bonds
Boston Globe seems mighty sure of itself on its front page right now
Who the fuck knows nowadays
JPL
They are now saying two suspects in custody. boston.com
They are looking for ied’s
MikeJ
Loud bangs coming out of the Star Market, they think it was trucks backfiring, hence the “15 shots at Aberdeen & Mt Auburn”.
Comrade Mary
Holy shit: reports (I know, I know) that the suspect in custody had died.
Pooh
@Suffern ACE: No real argument here, I just figured the Globe had a bit more credibility than the NYPost/CNN
MattR
From the twitter:
GregB
@Comrade Mary:
Just heard that on Boston NPR.
NotMax
Seems pretty solid that we can rule out frat house hijinks.
The locals being dragged (or pushing themselves) in front of the cameras are almost all case studies of why eyewitness testimony is so often unreliable.
? Martin
@Pooh: No it’s not. I’m pissed about that vote. Everyone should be. The NRA wants this country to look like fucking Syria and it’s playing out before our eyes. Is more guns really the answer? Is there any goddamn place in the country that has more guns and law enforcement on heightened status than Boston right now? How’s that working out?
Joel (Macho Man Randy Savage)
@Pooh: They’ve been solid this week, so yeah, they are more credible. But you still have to take flash responses with a hefty grain of salt.
penpen
The thick Boston accents on the police scanner are righteous
max
@? Martin: Maybe they weren’t finished. Dorner stuck around for precisely that reason.
Sure. But why Boston? Why not move on and hit some other place?
max
[‘Saying two suspects in custody.’]
mdblanche
@Hill Dweller: @AA+ Bonds: The police are being more hesitant to say.
? Martin
@Hill Dweller: Lucky he wasn’t sitting in that chair. Looks like that bullet would be in his head if he was.
The prophet Nostradumbass
I love that Dirty Water.
MattR
@max: MIT students (or dropouts) who thought they were smarter than the authorities?
Anne Laurie
Channel 7 now saying one suspect taken into custody before he died, another suspect still on the run, police doing sweeps in a (mostly residential) area, where the Normal People are of course long since abed.
Joel (Macho Man Randy Savage)
Could be that there are more than two guys involved in this.
Hill Dweller
The Boston police scanner is saying there are two pipe bombs in the street(one is being neutralized).
max
Ok, a cop gets shot at MIT. Then there’s a carjacking with a hostage, and then there’s a shootout of some sort, and one guy bails, and they apparently caught one guy. Then they caught (?) the other guy. Some bomb-throwing was involved.
max
[‘”Kids playing with fireworks…”‘]
Narcissus
Scanner: “Are you all set for canines? Does every search team have a canine?”
Villago Delenda Est
Well, as always, initial reports suck. It will take some time (yes, I know this drives the idiots at CNN batty, but fuck them) to figure out what has happened and is happening in Boston tonight.
Even with police scanner reports, you’re only getting a fraction of the information needed to paint the picture.
Ah, to be a fly on the wall in the command center.
trollhattan
Jesus Christ, I thought the Dorner thing was nuts….
As if that weren’t enough, the West, Texas body count is climbing.
I miss boring.
Pooh
@? Martin: Surely it can wait an hour though. Let’s know something before we spout off about what this incident proves.
Joel (Macho Man Randy Savage)
Scanner reports “assault rifle and explosives” on second suspect.
? Martin
@max: Without knowing their motivation, no way of knowing. Hell, maybe they were pissed at Boston for some reason.
Hoping they get at least one of these guys alive so we can find out.
Villago Delenda Est
@trollhattan:
We need a quote here from John or Soonergrunt about how boring sucks, but sucks much less than excitement in a combat zone.
MikeJ
Just gave description over radio. White male, curly hair, grey hoody, possibly with assault rifle and explosives.
Comrade Mary
I think the cop shooting at MIT was horrible but unrelated. I think they arrested some guy in a cowboy hat over that. This current mess started with a car-jacking in a totally different neighbourhood.
Putting out scanner bulletin re white male with black curly hair, assumed armed with explosives and assault rifle.
max
@MattR: MIT students (or dropouts) who thought they were smarter than the authorities?
That’s what I’m wondering. One of those guys (marathon bombers) looks like a bro version of Fonzie, and the other guy looks like some random dude.
https://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/759765692.jpg
That guy above lying in the street doesn’t look like either marathon dude, and not ‘Middle-eastern’ either.
max
[‘Strange.’]
AA+ Bonds
High tension wires down? Huh?
Narcissus
Scanner: “White male, gray hoodie, curly hair, should be considered armed and dangerous”
MattR
If the guy just interviewed on WCVB is accurate, they arrested someone about 40 minutes ago, which is long after the first guy we saw on CNN, etc.
? Martin
@Pooh: The video of the gunfight with police isn’t enough? Or are you under the impression this is some sort of hunting accident/misunderstanding?
Comrade Mary
@max: The guy in the street is almost certainly some random guy, not a suspect.
AA+ Bonds
“could have an IED device on him” (scanner)
4tehlulz
OBUMMER SILENCED THE SUSPECT B4 HE COULD TALK
/Alex Jones
Pooh
@? Martin: My point is, neither of us know shit yet and going off half-cocked is a decent way for us to look like idiots and end up hurting our side. It’s not like waiting the hours it takes for the developing situation to resolve is going to somehow make the AR-15 a better idea.
? Martin
Map of goings on.
Not sure what the armed robbery is about. I missed that.
AA+ Bonds
whoa they just said one of the people outstanding was the white hat in the photos
MikeJ
Radio says the party with the white hat in the photos is the one that’s still at large.
4tehlulz
@AA+ Bonds: Might be the bus wires the T uses, so not totally out of left field.
David Koch
@MikeJ:
sounds like rand paul
goblue72
@penpen: Wicked pissah.
Anne Laurie
Not sure I should even say this, but Watertown has one of the largest Armenian communities in the country, so there are a LOT of swarthy young men in that area. Which would make it a great place for evildoers to blend in, but also means there’s a lot of potential for mistaken identifications…
Comrade Mary
What you guys said. Whoa. White hat — the guy who fucking looked Jeff Bauman in the eyes before dropping off the bomb right next to him — is the one they’re looking for now.
GregB
@Comrade Mary:
I’m not willing to separate the two or three matters. It is possible that the nights’ events started in Cambridge and headed west as it developed.
We will see.
Suffern ACE
Ok. How do you carjack a car with all these weapons and unwieldy explosive devices.
mdblanche
Ha!
Narcissus
CNN: (Looking off-camera, confused) “Is the man still naked?”
? Martin
@Narcissus:
CNN certainly knows how to focus like a laser on the most important facts in any situation.
? Martin
@Suffern ACE: Good point.
AA+ Bonds
Is anyone in Boston listening to the MOPS channel
460.250
The Dangerman
@Narcissus:
Could make for an interesting booking photo.
Todd
Fucking insomnia, and now big news.
trollhattan
Globe is saying one suspect is in custody.
? Martin
Man, local reporters are really carrying the day here.
Hill Dweller
@Suffern ACE:
If they do turn out to be the marathon bombers, where were they storing all this stuff?
Comrade Mary
@GregB: CBS is now saying MIT shooting was related. Yeah, things are in flux.
AA+ Bonds
They just gave out a phone number over a channel with an online feed and about a million listeners right now :/ Here’s hoping a bunch of idiots don’t flood it
rb
@Suffern ACE: Now, now, don’t go complicating the narrative which is totally clear and we know everything, see? ;)
Hill Dweller
@? Martin: In my experience, local reporters are generally better than national reporters, especially in larger urban areas.
Narcissus
Cnn said a “Middle eastern” guy was arrested so who knows what the fuck is going on.
rb
@? Martin: Absolutely.
David Koch
Suspects identified over scanner as Mike Mulugeta Suspect and Sunil Tripathi (he’s a student from Brown University).
MattR
A correction by police from a previous tweet: “One more suspect at large. Two accounted for should be revised. One accounted for. One at large.” – state police PIO.
mdblanche
@Narcissus: If that’s what CNN says, he’s probably Scandinavian.
seebach
Saying its the missing Brown university student sunil tripathi
rb
Local NBC affiliate now joining the Globe in reporting that the two gunmen are the bombing suspects in the FBI photos.
JPL
@seebach: wow
MikeJ
@David Koch:
They’ve been looking for him for weeks since he vanished, google says.
MikeJ
http://abcnews.go.com/US/sunil-tripathi-surveillance-footage-shows-missing-ivy-league/story?id=18845517
AA+ Bonds
SWAT is coming in and only SWAT
Comrade Mary
“Explosives are everywhere”. Jesus.
David Koch
@MikeJ: look at the photo, sure looks like white hat http://www.browndailyherald.com/2013/04/01/possible-leads-arise-in-missing-student-case/
Pooh
@? Martin: Amazing how much more responsible and/or professional they are than the national gabbers, frex: https://twitter.com/GarrettQuinn/status/325141196630540289
“Hearing names being thrown around right now uncomfortable going with any”
MattR
@MikeJ: Here is an article about explosions in the Brown area in the days before Tripathi disappeared.
(EDIT: Actually not sure if this is near Brown at all or where Tripathi disappeared from. 3 am and making bad decisions. Time for bed)
JPL
https://twitter.com/mikemulugeta
David Koch
can’t wait until Ben Affleck turns this into a movie
The prophet Nostradumbass
@JPL: yeah, and?
BillinGlendaleCA
@Anne Laurie: We have a large Armenian population here too, though most of the 20 something guys shave their heads.
Hill Dweller
Pete Williams said the FBI was very interested in the Watertown area even before tonight. He also hinted, but wouldn’t say explicitly, that the marathon bombers had help from people in Watertown.
Comrade Mary
Have the cops said Mulugeta is a suspect? I know I heard his name on the scanner, but Googling suggested his name was Ethiopian, and when you look at his Twitter picture, he doesn’t look like either FBI picture.
I think this was the guy stopped bent over the car trunk earlier. I don’t think he’s one of the bombers we’ve been alerted to.
AA+ Bonds
@JPL:
Sitting here watching the followers count on that one
David Koch
racist CNN insisting Brown student is Middle Eastern, even though he was born in the United State and has an Indian name, and India isn’t in the Middle East.
? Martin
From local reporter:
That’s new.
mdblanche
Reports of a pressure cooker being found at the scene in Watertown.
David Koch
lester holt says police told him they’re lookin for 4 suspects
BillinGlendaleCA
@David Koch: It’s in the general area, good enough for CNN.
AA+ Bonds
@? Martin:
At 3:05 AM scanner repeated “SWAT assets only”, I guess that’s them
Comrade Mary
@David Koch: I think his name suggests that his family is Hindu, not Muslim, as well. I could be wrong, of course.
JPL
@AA+ Bonds: He doesn’t look like the same person. Unfortunately, his tweet is odd
You have enemies, good because that means you stood up for something
The other name shocks me because I can remember his family members putting up posters looking for him.
MikeJ
On the radio they’re looking in the park down by the river by Talcott st.
? Martin
@AA+ Bonds: But military personnel?
AA+ Bonds
@JPL:
I’m more interested in the people who immediately started following him.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Comrade Mary: Mulugeta is indeed an Ethiopian name.
max
@Comrade Mary: @max: The guy in the street is almost certainly some random guy, not a suspect.
Hrmm.
New FBI photos
I’m not seeing the resemblance to the Brown Uni guy. *sorta* similar, but the BrownSunil Tripathi with long hair.max
[‘So they’re driving down the street throwing bombs out the window.’]
Suffern ACE
@? Martin: it’s swat. If Phoenix can have a paramilitary force paid by Uncle Sam, why can’t boston?
AA+ Bonds
@? Martin:
Not like I could tell the difference on sight between military and paramilitary SWAT nowadays
AA+ Bonds
“lot of officers . . . different agencies . . . some in plain clothes . . . need to make sure we’re not engaging each other” -voice ID’d as “chief” on the scanner
David Koch
if romney/ryan had their way all these cops would be unemployed.
AA+ Bonds
“we’re gonna start abandoning some of the houses here because of the devices”, calling for school buses to evacuate people
Comrade Mary
@max: The BLOND guy lying in the street: http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/759765692.jpg
Narcissus
I’m going to bed. Hope Watertown is still there in the morning.
Anne Laurie
@MikeJ:
Damn, his family has been putting up pictures of him & petitioning local media since late March. They talked obliquely about “no matter what you think, Suni, we know you’ve been having some problems, we love you and we’re worried about you”… the undercurrent at the time was that they worried that the kid had gone off to commit suicide.
karen
The only thing I will say is, if it turns out that they’re white and christian, the word “terrorist” will suddenly never be used. That’s the rules after all.
JPL
@Anne Laurie: The odds are that the FBI was able to match the picture to him. Reddit had a post up shortly after the FBI released the picture according to google.
David Koch
lol – okay, this tweet was funny
Omnes Omnibus
@David Koch: This isn’t the place.
David Koch
MSNBC playing amateur video of the firefight- sounds like the famed clip of US embassy being seized during the Tet Offensive
? Martin
Sounds like a transit officer was shot in relation to this and is being treated.
mdblanche
What’s this about a transit officer being shot?
AA+ Bonds
Again, if you have a scanner and are in Boston, 460.250 mHz is probably where you want to be right now
AA+ Bonds
they’re giving a description right now: dark-complexioned/Middle Eastern male, charcoal grey hoodie
“Did anyone see him tonight is all I’m asking”
“He was seen tonight with the charcoal grey sweatshirt on”
They are tying this with “the photo from the store”
mdblanche
Law enforcement now saying these are the marathon bombers and confirming suspect 1 is dead.
David Koch
suspect one photo
https://twitter.com/CBS8/status/325148541762801664/photo/1
AA+ Bonds
“we are going to fall back to the mall, task out from there, go street by street, we are encouraging people to stay inside . . . wait for daylight until the advantage is ours” -paraphrase from scanner
Suffern ACE
@David Koch: that’s suspect 2
daverave
@David Koch:
I thought he was reported as dead?!??!
Hill Dweller
Law enforcement has lined both sides of Arsenal St. for two miles. They’re about to do sweeps.
AA+ Bonds
Ballistics evidence team reported as taking fire at Fairfield and Dexter
Tripod
I like that MSNBC has no compunction in telling that idiot to get some sweet laptop camera footage of the UXB robot working down on the street.
Todd
@Anne Laurie:
Made me physically ill to read that he is a philosophy major.
I’ve got one kid who fell under the thrall of philosophers thanks to an emo drama queen high school boyfriend and it has caused me no end of grief to watch her squander opportunity while calling herself a “free thinker”. Kid is unwilling to see Western philosophy as so much bullshit masquerading as brilliance, or to see that most of their concepts are merely justifications by life failures for laziness, mental sloth, racial cruelty, class cruelty or a way to shuck seeking solutions because solutions are hard. I had a very upsetting conversation with her this afternoon (hence my insomnia) where she’s talking about leaving her college (she “needs a break, and college is bullshit which I don’t need to be happy because I’m a freethinker and don’t need regular work to be happy and I want to hike the Appalachian trail and commune with nature…”). She’s quick to find and latch on to every bullshit theory that crosses her Facebook feed, and wants to argue in favor of the outlandish because “all thought has validity”.
Really feel for that family.
Tripod
@David Koch:
CNN: How big is his cock?
? Martin
Mass State Police telling people on twitter to hunker down, lock doors. They’re clearly still searching.
AA+ Bonds
@Todd:
Can it, real shit is going down
? Martin
Ok, I loled:
Davis X. Machina
@? Martin: Abundance of caution. In dark, LEO friendly-fire becomes a real risk now…
AA+ Bonds
@Davis X. Machina:
“Chief” on scanner was stressing the importance of police wearing some sort of ID because of the amount of plainclothes out there
ffredpalakon
Crowd sourced map of the night’s events.
scav
@daverave: That is entirely confusing, how a walking naked guy is suddenly dead, I’d really think they’d try to keep him alive, what with the high profile and the other guy still on the loose and, I would certainly hope, professionalism. foggy.
Comrade Mary
@Davis X. Machina: You saw this pic, right?
AA+ Bonds
@scav:
Anyone who they think is a suspect out there they are going to strip down, right or wrong
Suffern ACE
@scav: it’s not the same guy. It’s suspect 2. Suspect 1 is dead apparently.
Todd
@AA+ Bonds:
Yes, my observation of sympathy regarding the family of a suspect (because I see some relevance to an issue I’ve had with a child who may have some similar interests in bullshit philosophy) will completely derail the vital discussion being held by other insomniacs here.
? Martin
Interesting. The location for the press conference (Target) can’t be more than 500′ from the area they say is locked down.
Davis X. Machina
My sister lives in Nonantum (Newton/Watertown line), just SMS’d the clan. It’s a zoo. Galen St. a constant stream of vehicles with flashers…. woke her up.
I’m going back to bed.
scav
Comments 250 and 251, so there’s a confirmed third suspect? or naked guy confirmed in the clear? still foggy for me at least, what have I missed?
MikeJ
Motion sensors tripping at the Commander’s Mansion 100 Talcott
David Koch
@Suffern ACE: i’m not sure because everyone is reporting that they’re still scouring house to house for suspect 2
? Martin
Reporting they’re going to sound an alarm and then detonate a device (Dexter/Laurel)
AA+ Bonds
@Todd:
Philosophy BA here, going to work as a consultant for a Fortune 100 company this fall; and again: can it
AA+ Bonds
@scav:
I have no idea who that naked guy is, is what I’m saying
MikeJ
@David Koch:
The naked guy was just a guy trying to get home. Unrelated, wrong place, wrong time. They’re still looking for what the Boston cops say is the guy in the white cap from the Marathon pics.
Suffern ACE
@ffredpalakon: yeah. I’m not buying that they robbed the 7-11. Although they may have wanted a twix or something.
Mustang Bobby
MSNBC isn’t saying anything about a naked guy.
Wow, do I know when to walk into a room…
scav
@AA+ Bonds: Seems to have been David Koch that ided naked guy as suspect two further up from a quick scan.
David Koch
Okay, another funny tweet:
Tripod
Pete Williams – one in custody, one possibly dead.
Maybe another police KIA.
Comrade Mary
Police commissioner confirms suspect #1 is dead, suspect #2 at large.
Todd
@AA+ Bonds:
Hrmph, it figures. As a bullshit artist/standup philosopher (h/t Mel Brooks), you’re predisposed by education to justify sociopathy and cruelty in the name of ideology. It fits that a member of the Fortune 100 would desire your consultancy on some subject or another – probably coming up with positive arguments for devouring live puppies as a marketing ploy or something like that
Anyway, I am going to can it (not because of your command – you can go pound sand up your ass on that one) because I’m going to try and resume sleep in light of the insomnia caused by the distressing talk I mentioned earlier.
JPL
Suspect 2 is the one that might be or not Sunil Tripathi but it’s not yet verified. I am John King and I approved this message.
Suffern ACE
If naked guy isn’t a suspect, please tell CNN so they stop plastering his naked body on the tv
Tripod
@Suffern ACE:
CNN:We like the cut of his jib.
MikeJ
Box with wires at 89 Dexter
John O
@Suffern ACE: Right! It’s confusing and stupid if he’s just some dude.
The local feed is much, much more informative. (Shocking, I know.)
TheMightyTrowel
@Tripod: CNN: putting dicks on camera with irresponsible voice-overs is our mandate
JPL
Sunil Tripathi is Indian I believe. I wonder if this will hurt Jindal’s chances or can we only profile Arabs?
Comrade Mary
Press conference live now!
MikeJ
@JPL:
Radnor, PA is in India?
David Koch
White Hat is apparently hiding in a office building. 2 swat teams have the building surrounded.
Comrade Mary
Shooting at MIT. Carjacking at MIT down to Watertown.
Shootout and several explosive devices thrown at officers. One suspect shot during fight and arrested. Other has fled and is being searched.
MBTA officer also shot, in critical condition in hospital.
For public safety: stay in place. Don’t leave home. See something, say something: call 911 if anything suspicious. Motorists shouldn’t stop and pick up anyone on road.
Looking for white capped suspect #2. Have picture and video from 7-11 in Cambridge: light skinned or Caucasian male with long curly hair. Armed and extremely dangerous.
JPL
@MikeJ: You are definitely correct and that was insensitive. He’s an American first.
Comrade Mary
Press conference continued:
Stay at home, stay safe, call 911 if anything odd. No planned controlled blasts in Watertown area.
Not prepared to talk about identifications. Was one of the reasons videos were released yesterday. “We don’t have the names at this point”.
mouse tolliver
Wayne LaPierre and the gun ghouls he represents are thrilled that the Boston marathon terrorists turned a residential neighborhood into a war zone. Because whatever guns they used tonight will be flying off the shelves tomorrow.
? Martin
Bad news for the NRA that this shit went down in the neighborhood for damn near every future Supreme Court Justice.
Anne Laurie
Police commissioner Ed Davis doing a press conference:
http://www1.whdh.com/video/7newslive
Looking for ‘Suspect #2’ — describing him as “light-skinned or Caucasian”
Persia
@MikeJ: Cops just used the word ‘Caucasian.’ I wonder if this will stop people from bitching about…no. No it won’t.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Anne Laurie: The words, “Police” and “Ed Davis” bring back bad memories for Angelenos.
Calouste
@Persia: Not just that, they also used the word ‘terrorist’ to describe the same person.
Persia
Holy shit, they carjacked a guy and held him hostage for about half an hour.
MikeJ
@Persia: And stopped for gas!
kelrian
Holy Hell, this is some crazy, scary stuff going on.
Suffern ACE
@MikeJ: and robbed a store. And released the hostage. What the hell were they doing?
MikeJ
First suspect had explosives strapped to his chest and detonated when captured. Cautioning cops about possible explosives on second suspect.
max
Picture apparently from the gas station carjacking from BPD
That would be ‘Suspect #2’.
max
[‘More like Columbine or Natural-Born Killers than 9/11.’]
Suffern ACE
@MikeJ: ok. Where did you hear that.
MikeJ
@Suffern ACE: Scanner.
? Martin
@MikeJ: That doesn’t sound right. You don’t take someone strapped with explosives to the hospital. You let them die in the street and clear the area.
I’ve seen nothing to that extent, and Middlesex DA mentioned no such thing in their statement.
JPL
@MikeJ: ugh
As mentioned IF it is the missing Brown student, I feel for his family as well as the families who he brought harm to.
MikeJ
@? Martin: I don’t know if it’s true or not, I know that’s what they’re telling the cops over the radio.
Persia
@Suffern ACE: Giving some guy a terminal case of PTSD?
Hill Dweller
@? Martin: MikeJ is right. They put out an all points bulletin telling officers to use caution when apprehending suspect #2, because he could have explosives strapped to his chest like like suspect #1.
Thoughtcrime
reporters on the scene say there are several undetonated explosives in residential neighborhoods in watertown.
? Martin
I can’t believe this guy has evaded police this long.
scav
@MikeJ: if guy lying on the road is just some unlucky guy, it would explain why they made him strip as that was post suspect #1, no? at least makes it more explicable. not that we entirely know what is SOP,in these instances.
Thoughtcrime
Sick fucks:
Comment from GOS:
Apparently there’s more explosive divices hidden in the bushes.
They may have set these things out all over the place. Not just Watertown. Not necessarily the ones they were tossing out as they fled. They found bomb materials in a car parked nearby. Not the car they hijacked.
There are about a dozen areas being searched right now. Not all are in Watertown.
? Martin
Here’s the DA statement. No mention of explosives on them.
Suffern ACE
@? Martin: I mean if he’s strapped with explosives because he doesn’t want to be taken alive, just end it. Does he think he can wear explosives the rest of his life?
? Martin
@Thoughtcrime: There was a mention earlier that police seemed to suspect the bombers got help from someone in Middletown. Haven’t heard anything much since then, but the ‘terrorists came here to kill people’ seem to hint toward that.
Anne Laurie
New thread up top, for further details.
oldster
@293–
Wow–the pic of the guy in the gas station is so clearly the same damned kid, i.e. white-hat.
Why didn’t someone tell him a long time ago that his face is just too distinctive for a successful life of crime?
But to my eyes, gas-station kid does not look like Tripathi. (Though who knows).
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
Fucking Mayan calendar must have a glitch in it.
Thoughtcrime
Statement from the Watertown DA Office:
http://live.reuters.com/Event/Watertown/73672864
scav
@Suffern ACE: If,the goal,was simply suicide, there wasn’t much reason for any of this. Mayhem and bodycount.
Xenos
@? Martin: In this case the International Terrorists appear to have come from New Hampshire. The could also be outside-495 Massholes, which is also like another country.
Plantsmantx
@JPL:
…and Mike Mulugeta is Ethiopian