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Shots Fired–Cops May Have Cornered Bomber–2 Bodies Found On Boat–One Alive
Reports of gunshots fired around 7:00 p.m., approximately one hour after authorities told the public that the lockdown had been lifted, sent law enforcement officials scrambling to a crime scene in Watertown, Mass.
The Boston Police Department told residents in the area to “remain inside.”
Watertown residents near where the police are converging tell HuffPost reporters Christina Wilkie and Michael McLaughlin that a living and injured body was found in a boat on pylons. It is unclear if the body is the suspect connected to the marathon bombing. They say 15 gunshots were heard near a 7-Eleven on Mount. Auburn in Watertown. The scene is very close to last night’s burst of violence.
A State police officer is warning members of the public that it is “extremely dangerous to be out here.” Unlike Thursday, when the sound of loud explosions attracted large crowds, the area near the crime scene on Mount Auburn Street is empty.
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By EILEEN SULLIVAN, MEGHAN BARR AND KATIE ZEZIMA
WATERTOWN, Mass. — The sound of gunfire has been reported in Watertown, Mass., where authorities have been searching for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.
Television footage is showing emergency and military vehicles speeding through town Friday evening.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether authorities had found 19-year-old college student Dzhokar Tsarnaev ((JOH’-kahr tsahr-NY’-ev).
Authorities are telling residents of the area to stay indoors.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.
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MIT SHOOTINGS 2
Graphic shows photos of suspects; locates Watertown and Cambridge, Mass., where Boston Marathon bombing suspects exchanged gunfire and one is dead
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Boston Marathon Explosions
This image provided by the Boston Regional Intelligence Center shows Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. Authorities say Tsarnaev is still at large after he and another suspect both identified to The Associated Press as coming from the Russian region near Chechnya killed an MIT police officer, injured a transit officer in a firefight and threw explosive devices at police during their getaway attempt in a long night of violence into the early hours of Friday, April 19, 2013. The second suspect, who has not yet been identified, was killed in a shootout with police. (AP Photo/Boston Regional Intelligence Center)
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This combo of photos released by the FBI early Friday April 19, 2013, shows what the FBI is calling suspects number 1, left, and suspect number 2, right, walking through the crowd in Boston on Monday, April 15, 2013, before the explosions at the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/FBI)
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This photo released by the FBI early Friday April 19, 2013, shows what the FBI is calling suspect number 1, walking through the crowd in Boston on Monday, April 15, 2013, before the explosions at the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/FBI)
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This photo released by the FBI early Friday April 19, 2013, shows what the FBI is calling suspect number 2, walking through the crowd in Boston on Monday, April 15, 2013, before the explosions at the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/FBI)
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This photo released by the FBI early Friday April 19, 2013, shows what the FBI is calling suspect number 2 behind a lady, walking through the crowd in Boston on Monday, April 15, 2013, before the explosions at the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/FBI)
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This photo released by the FBI early Friday April 19, 2013, shows what the FBI is calling the suspects together, walking through the crowd in Boston on Monday, April 15, 2013, before the explosions at the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/FBI)
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This surveillance photo released via Twitter Friday, April 19, 2013 by the Boston Police Department shows a suspect entering a convenience store that police are pursuing in Watertown, Mass. Police say he is one of two suspects in the fatal shooting of an MIT police officer and tied to the Boston Marathon bombing. (AP Photo/Boston Police Department)
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This combo of photos released by the FBI early Friday April 19, 2013, shows what the FBI is calling suspects number 1, left, and suspect number 2, right, walking through the crowd in Boston on Monday, April 15, 2013, before the explosions at the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/FBI)
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This photo released by the FBI early Friday April 19, 2013, shows what the FBI is calling suspect number 2 behind a lady, walking through the crowd in Boston on Monday, April 15, 2013, before the explosions at the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/FBI)
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This photo released by the FBI early Friday April 19, 2013, shows what the FBI is calling the suspects together, walking through the crowd in Boston on Monday, April 15, 2013, before the explosions at the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/FBI)
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This image from video released Thursday, April 18, 2013 by the FBI shows one of two suspects sought in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings. The FBI released photos and video of the two suspects and asked for the public’s help in identifying them, zeroing in on the two men on surveillance-camera footage less than three days after the deadly attack. (AP Photo/FBI)
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BOSTON MARATHON
Graphic shows photos of the suspects and where they were caught on tape, a demographic profile of the runners and a map of the marathon path
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This image from video released Thursday, April 18, 2013 by the FBI shows one of two suspects sought in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings. The FBI released photos and video of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing and asked for the public’s help in identifying them, zeroing in on the two men on surveillance-camera footage less than three days after the deadly attack. (AP Photo/FBI)
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This image from video released Thursday, April 18, 2013 by the FBI shows one of two suspects sought in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings. The FBI released photos and video of the two suspects and asked for the public’s help in identifying them, zeroing in on the two men on surveillance-camera footage less than three days after the deadly attack. (AP Photo/FBI)
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This image from video released Thursday, April 18, 2013 by the FBI shows one of two suspects sought in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings. The FBI released photos and video of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing and asked for the public’s help in identifying them, zeroing in on the two men on surveillance-camera footage less than three days after the deadly attack. (AP Photo/FBI)
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This image from video released Thursday, April 19, 2013 by the FBI shows one of two suspects sought in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings. (AP Photo/FBI)
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This combination of Associated Press file images released by the FBI on Thursday, April 18, 2013, show two images taken from surveillance video of what the FBI are calling suspect number 2, left, in white cap,and suspect number 1, right, in black cap, as they walk near each other through the crowd in Boston on Monday, April 15, 2013, before the explosions at the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/FBI, File)
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This frame grab from a video released by the FBI on Thursday, April 18, 2013, shows what the FBI are calling suspect number 1, black cap in lower right, walking in front of suspect number 2, not seen, through the crowd in Boston on Monday, April 15, 2013, before the explosions at the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/FBI)
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This frame grab from a video released by the FBI on Thursday, April 18, 2013, shows what the FBI are calling suspect number 1, front, in black cap, and suspect number 2, in white cap, back right, walking near each other through the crowd in Boston on Monday, April 15, 2013, before the explosions at the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/FBI)
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This frame grab from a video released by the FBI on Thursday, April 18, 2013, shows what the FBI are calling suspect number 1, black cap with backpack, walking in front of suspect number 2, white cap at lower right, through the crowd in Boston on Monday, April 15, 2013, before the explosions at the Boston Marathon. (AP Photo/FBI)
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SWAT teams in armored vehicles swarmed the tense and locked-down streets of Boston and its suburbs Friday in an all-out hunt for the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect after his older brother died in a desperate getaway attempt. But as evening fell, police had come up empty-handed.
State Police Col. Timothy Alben said at a news conference that he believed 19-year-old college student Dzhokar Tsarnaev was still in Massachusetts because of his ties to the area. But authorities lifted the stay-indoors warning for people in the Boston area, and the transit system started running again by evening.
“We can’t continue to lockdown an entire city or an entire state,” Alben said. At the same time, he and other authorities warned that Tsarnaev is a killer and that people should be vigilant.Tsarnaev fled on foot after a furious overnight gun battle that left 200 spent rounds behind and after a wild car chase in which he and his brother hurled explosives at police, authorities said. His brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, died in the shootout, run over by his younger brother in a car as he lay wounded, according to investigators.
During the overnight spasm of violence, the brothers also shot and killed an MIT policeman and severely wounded another officer, authorities said.
Law enforcement officials and family members identified the brothers as ethnic Chechens who came to the U.S. from Russia. They lived near Boston and had been in the U.S. for about a decade, an uncle said.
Around midday, as the manhunt dragged on, the suspects’ uncle Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Md., pleaded on television: “Dzhokhar, if you are alive, turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness.”
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Sullivan and Associated Press writer Stephen Braun reported from Washington. Associated Press writers Pat Eaton-Robb in Boston and Jeff Donn in Cambridge, Mass., contributed to this report.
On the street near the crime scene a Mass. State police office is warning members of the public to be cautious.
“Extremely dangerous to be out here,” report Huffpost’s Michael McLaughlin and Christina Wilkie.
Police were overheard talking to pedestrians, saying, “Did you hear how many shots were fired at a 7-Eleven?”
HuffPost’s Timothy Stenovec reports:
We don’t yet know whether the images of the two men now accused of detonating deadly bombs at the Boston Marathon were gleaned through modern data mining — poring through thousands of photos and videos captured on private citizens’ cameras and smartphones — or rather just old-fashioned police work.
The first photographs of the two suspects released by the FBI appear to have been captured by surveillance cameras, the sort of technology that has been in place for decades. But a former high-level FBI official suggested that, behind the scenes, more modern collection methods may well have played a role in pinpointing the suspects: The trove of photographs harvested from smartphones wielded by throngs of people in the area of the bombing may have sharpened the perspective of investigators.
“In every investigation, it’s better to over-collect than to under-collect,” Timothy Ryan, the former FBI official and now a managing director of the cyber-investigations practice at the global security firm Kroll told The Huffington Post. “That is the essence of investigations. If you start small when you’re dealing with digital evidence, you run the risk of losing it. When you start big and you just start collecting stuff even if you’re not sure exactly where this road is going to go, you’re going to do a lot better.”
Read more here.
Watertown resident Al Wilson, an associate regional ad director for Patch, recorded this video of police doing a routine search of his house Friday afternoon as part of their search for the suspect. Wilson had been briefly detained by police in the early morning hours of Friday after hearing gunshots and an explosion, Watertown Patch reports.
Rebecca Krieger has now heard bursts of gunfire twice from her “shelter in place” in Watertown. Last night, she tells HuffPost in a phone interview, she could faintly hear the shootout, its gunshots and explosions. Just minutes ago, shortly before 7:00, she said she heard about 20 shots just outside her window, and that 30-40 cops are walking nearby.
She said she lives between a half mile and a mile from last night’s shootout.
Krieger, 17, is a junior at Watertown High School. “We complain about it being boring, and then this happens,” she said.
Reports of gunshots fired around 7:00 p.m., approximately one hour after authorities told the public that the lockdown had been lifted, sent law enforcement officials scrambling to a crime scene in Watertown, Mass.
Read more here.
Reporters Christina Wilkie and Michael McLaughlin are close to the crime scene and will be reporting from there soon.
The FBI admitted Friday they interviewed the now-deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev two years ago and failed to find any incriminating information about him.
As first reported by CBS News correspondent Bob Orr, the FBI interviewed Tsarnaev, the elder brother of at-large bombing suspect Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, at the request of a foreign government to see if he had any extremist ties, but failed to find any linkage.
Read more here.
