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Boston: One dead, one captured, city re-opened

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I'm confused as to how the FBI and other agencies are involved right now. Are they using BPD radio or their own? What is their role right now, they're not doing the house by house sweep.
They are on a secure channel , the one you are hearing is a small scope of the whole operation.
 
I think this guy may have managed to disappear. He had so much time.

I'm worried about that too. There was a decent time between when they were first spotted and when they started the perimeter. I hope he didn't run for it and make it out of there before they secured it.
 
Is there a summary of what's happened so far? 1 suspect dead?

If I'm not mistaken (I didn't have a lot of time to read everything):

One suspect dead, he shot one police officer (dead) and died after an explosive device attached to his body went off. (He died in the hospital)

The other one is on the run. I'm not sure if the police had him in his sights.

Not sure what the car chase was about.
 
No. If anything, people are leaning towards the opposite.
Well a lot of gaffers were 100% certain. I hope they realise how wrong they were. I also hope they stay away from future facial recognition threads in the future. Truely baffling how they just toyed with the image of a missing kid who clearly didn't look like the suspect (if you have normal working eyes).
 
Now they're talking about clearing houses again. So whoever said they had the suspect was either wrong or talking about a different one.

They had detained some people that fit the suspect's description. Police will be extra jumpy from here on out.
 
I'm worried about that too. There was a decent time between when they were first spotted and when they started the perimeter. I hope he didn't run for it and make it out of there before they secured it.
Yes there was a decent amount of time between when they saw him and when the perimeter went up.
 
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I agree. I think there is more of a resemblance than not.

Well if one of his friends can post in her twitter account claiming that it is him, then there must be enough physical similarities to fool her. But she might have been so shocked that she might have not been thinking things through clearly when she saw the photos.
 
If I'm not mistaken (I didn't have a lot of time to read everything):

One suspect dead, he shot one police officer (dead) and died after an explosive device attached to his body went off. (He died in the hospital)

The other one is on the run. I'm not sure if the police had him in his sights.

Not sure what the car chase was about.

We don't know if that explosive is what killed him. He had many shots in him as well. We don't know if the attached explosive is what went off either. They were apparently throwing explosives. You can hear at least one in a video online.
 
Is there a summary of what's happened so far? 1 suspect dead?

Here's some info.

Saw a couple more asking and since we're after 6am decided I might as well dump this out truncated one more time:

THESE ARE THE MARATHON BOMBING SUSPECTS

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Scanner: http://audio2.radioreference.com/446184308
http://tunein.com/radio/Boston-Police-Fire-and-EMS-Scanner-s146109/

Local News (who have dominated all night):
http://www1.whdh.com/video/7newslive
http://livewire.wcvb.com/Event/117th_Running_of_Boston_Marathon

Better summary:



This was the DA statement and press conference earlier, may be off since I just jotted it down, but is generally what I heard across those sources:


MIT classes cancelled. MIT says he sacrified to save the campus.

Police are waiting for daylight to do a house to house sweep of a 20 block area they have sectioned off.
 
So they're still just sweeping houses and responding to potential threats. Guess the snipers were just positioned like that because the one house seemed potentially dangerous.
 
They had so much time between Mon/Thur. I'm surprised they were still in Boston. I doubt this guy has gone far.
I don't think he wants to get out of dodge. I think he wants to plan another attack. These guys have no tact. They just want to cause mayhem. Escaping the net for a while gives him more time to do some heinous shit.
 
No, the opposite.

And considering the long history of people who have been mistakenly IDed as a criminal, I don't know why people are so eager to name someone.

Does it matter? Why does the race or political identity or religious affiliation have to be proven at all? Whoever these people are, it's not like they are true representatives of that nationality/religion/political ideology.

People are curious. You don't need to assume that there is malice or a political agenda behind speculation.
 
what's the story about the sunil guy? just some guy that went missing that "looks" like the one suspect?

i dont think it looks like him, after doing a quick picture search, but the hair is what kind of makes people think it is.
 
Now they're talking about clearing houses again. So whoever said they had the suspect was either wrong or talking about a different one.
They likely have to clear houses for bomb threats regardless. Also, someone can be a suspect without being THE suspect.
 
First day of Finals cancelled at Northeastern University...it's safe over here, though. I think they closed the campus moreso because of the MBTA.
 
Yes there was a decent amount of time between when they saw him and when the perimeter went up.

It's weird, feels like there was a few times where they got super close but the guy just vanished (like when they were about to call a pursuit on foot).
 
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