Shots fired at MIT

[MacGyver]

Let's hope this isn't what it appears:

http://emergency.mit.net/

Thursday, April 18, 2013 10:48 PM
At 10:48 PM today gunshots were reported near Building 32 (Stata) which is currently surrounded by responding agencies. The area is cordoned off. Please stay clear of area until further notice. Unknown if injuries have occurred.. Although the situation is considered active and extremely dangerous, an investigation is underway. Updates will be provided at this site when more information becomes available.

[MacGyver]

Radio feed reporting officer down.

[Wingshooter]

Oh, geez. Another big shooting and the libs in DC will be giddy with excitement. I hope everyone is ok and the downed officer is not seriously injured. I sure hope it's not a big event.

[rugerla1]

It's neverending! Thanks for the heads up, I hope officers lay the piece of sh!! down!

[MacGyver]

Looks like an armed robbery at a nearby 7/11.

[rugerla1]

Talking about it on Fox News now

[bvarnell]

Fox reported the officer was shot with his own gun.

Not much the anti's can do with that if true.

[TNcitizen22]

Fox reported the officer was shot with his own gun.

Not much the anti's can do with that if true.

 

Well if the officer didn't have a gun, he couldn't have been shot with it...

 

#englishcops

[Oh Shoot]

Well, the situation up there has gone ape.

 

Some kind of officer killed on or near MIT campus as per this thread.

 

Now 4 miles a way (maybe due to chase from MIT, maybe not) big gunfight and bombs exploded. One suspect in custody one on the loose, police going door to door in neighborhood. Definitely footage of guy spread-eagled on street.

 

Reports are going wild of course, reported that FBI said he's one of the bombers, now another has said he's not, etc. One witness even says he saw one of the guys with a pressure cooker, probably just some neighborhood nut, who knows.

 

And simultaneous to all this, FBI releases more close up pictures, best yet, of the two suspected perps.

 

Update: now saying that FBI says guy on right is definitely one captured, guy on left is one on the loose. Take with grain of salt at this point, seems.

 

Who knows, I'm going to sleep,  y'all carry on as you wake up to reports before me. :)

 

 

- OS

Edited April 19, 2013 by Oh Shoot

[RichardR]

Boston.com is now reporting one marathon bombing suspect is in custody, still searching for 2nd.

[Chucktshoes]

Suspect names overheard on scanner. Mike Mulugeta and Sunil Tripathi. Reddit actually had named Tripathi earlier in the day as a Brown University student that had gone missing, looks like he has been found. Well almost. He is still loose as of right now.

[Chucktshoes]

Now seeing reports that one suspect is dead.

[Guest 6.8 AR]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ap-surviving-boston-bomb-suspect-identified-as-dzhokhar-a-tsarnaev-19-of-cambridge-mass/2013/04/19/5d9de6ee-a8de-11e2-9e1c-bb0fb0c2edd9_story.html

 

This one is evidently still alive.

 

First comment on that page: "They are brothers and Chechen, mostly Muslim country. Oh hell..."

Edited April 19, 2013 by 6.8 AR

[Lumber_Jack]

I've already seen comments asking "where'd they get their guns". Holy shit, they have bombs Edited April 19, 2013 by Lumber_Jack

[JR2ATN]

We all know most hardcore right-wing Tea-partiers come from Chechnya.   :rolleyes:   Wasn't O or someone in his administration sayin' this might be about tax day...what a joke they are.