Boston bombing suspect shot dead, suspect # 2 on the run
One of the suspects in the deadly Boston Marathon bombings was killed during a shoot-out while a hunt for a white-hatted "terrorist" is on at Watertown town near Boston, city police said on Friday.
Police
are hunting in Watertown, 10-km from Boston, for someone they believe
is the white-hatted "suspect number two" in the Marathon bombings, after
a police officer was shot dead last night on the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology campus.
One
suspect was killed in a shootout with police in Watertown, while the
second fled on foot, State Police Colonel Timonty Alben said in an early
morning press conference.
Police are seeking
is "consistent with the description of suspect No 2 who was involved in
Monday's bombing at the Boston Marathon," Alben said in a reference to
the man in the white hat seen in images released by the FBI on Friday.
Earlier the FBI released pictures and videos of two suspects and sought the public's help in identifying the men who are seen carrying backpacks near the finish line of the race before the blasts that killed three persons and injured over 180.
Earlier the FBI released pictures and videos of two suspects and sought the public's help in identifying the men who are seen carrying backpacks near the finish line of the race before the blasts that killed three persons and injured over 180.
"He
is a white skinned Caucasian male with longer brown curly hair. You
have the picture, you have seen it, that's the individual we are looking
for...suspect number 1 has been shot dead," said another city police
official.
Boston Police
Commissioner Edward F Davis said that they "believe this to be a
terrorist. We believe this to be a man here to kill people."
Police
have also warned residents in East Watertown to stay in their homes,
and not to answer the door unless they see a uniformed police officer
outside.
The chaotic
incident began with a report of shots fired on the MIT campus at about
10:20 pm (local time) on Thursday night, the Middlesex District
Attorney's office said.
A few minutes
later, an MIT campus police officer was found with multiple gunshot
wounds in his vehicle. He was pronounced dead at Massachusetts General
Hospital, the Boston Herald reported.
Police
then received reports of a carjacking at gunpoint by two men in the
area of Third Street in Cambridge. The SUV proceeded out Memorial Drive
toward Watertown followed by a long train of police vehicles in pursuit.
At
one point during the pursuit, the two suspects opened fire on Watertown
police and a Transit Police officer, who was shot and who is now in
critical condition at a Boston-area hospital.
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