One Boston Marathon suspect dead, another still on run, officials say
The FBI believes these two men were responsible for the Boston Marathon bombing. The suspect in the white hat is still believed to be at large.
By Becky Bratu, Kerry Sanders and Tom Winter, NBC NewsTwo men identified by law enforcement sources as the Boston Marathon attack suspects — armed with explosives and guns — battled authorities in a Boston suburb early Friday morning, unleashing chaos until cops took one of the men into custody, and the other fled, the sources said.
Officials later said the the suspect taken into custody died.
The standoff in Watertown, Mass., erupted shortly after the
fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer. A transit police officer was also wounded in the Watertown fire fight, officials confirmed to NBC affiliate WHDH. Referencing the photographs that were released by the FBI Thursday,
authorities said the "white-hat" suspect was still on the loose. He is considered armed and dangerous. The suspect at large was described as
"dressed in a grey hoodie, light skinned male, brown curly hair."
“They engaged in gunfire for a few minutes,” Kitzenberg said. “They were also utilizing bombs, which sounded and looked like grenades, while engaging in the gunfight. They also had what looked like a pressure-cooker bomb.”
He said the pair took cover behind the Mercedes SUV and were shooting westward toward the police officers. They also had backpacks.
“It was a firefight,” he added. “There was a long exchange of gunfire
Watertown resident Andrew Kitzenberg described a police earlier standoff outside his house, where the two suspects and police engaged in gunfire for several minutes. The gunmen used "bombs that looked like grenades," Kitzenberg told NBC News.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/19/17817173-one-boston-marathon-suspect-dead-another-still-on-run-officials-say?litethere is a live video going on at that link... it is like a war zone .. fucking MIT?......
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