Boston bombing suspect dead, manhunt underway for another
Posted Apr 19, 2013 05:51:47 AM.
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Police have locked down a 20-block area of western Boston after major developments in Monday’s twin bombings that killed three people.
One of two suspects in the bombings has been shot dead, and an intense manhunt is underway for the second suspect, described by police as a terrorist.
The Associated Press says he is Dzhokar Tsarnaev, 19, from the Boston suburb of Cambridge. AP reports that both suspects were from Russia, the Chechyna region specifically, and had been in the U.S. at least a year.
Last night’s chaotic events began with the shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer, followed by a massive manhunt.
Shortly after the MIT officer was shot dead, police got a report of a carjacking in Cambridge, just outside Boston.
One of the two suspects in the officer’s shooting died in hospital after a shootout with police.
The MIT officer was responding to report of a disturbance when he was shot multiple times, according to a statement from the Middlesex district attorney’s office and Cambridge police.
It said there were no other victims.
Authorities urged residents in Watertown, Newton, Waltham, Belmont, Cambridge and the Allston-Brighton neighbourhoods of Boston to stay indoors.
All mass transit was shut down. All Boston schools are closed for the day, in addition to MIT and Harvard.
