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Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)
- weisser 14y agovia the Atlantic Wire: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/04/theres-shooter-loose-and-officer-down-mit/64379/ http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/04/theres-shoot... MIT issued an emergency alert at 10:48 on Monay night reporting shots fired on the university campus. The school newspaper reports, "Shots fired near 32 Vassar St (Stata Center), police officer down. Please stay inside." For now, details are scarce, but the suspect is on the loose and considered armed and extremely dangerous. This is a developing story. We'll update you as new information comes in.
- TallboyOne 14y agoHope everyone stays safe!
- hiddenfeatures 14y agoI find it very interesting, that there are such websites. I wonder whether it works, but I guess that if only one life is saved by a notice on a website, that is enough
- 27182818284 14y agoAt this point that most higher-ed websites not only have their emergency website, but also a whole system. A lot of universities send out text messages simultaneously.
- jason_pr 14y agoYup. These messages are also sent to MIT students (and, I assume, faculty) via text message, automated phone call, and email.
- weisser 14y agoThis is beamed out to sites that people are actually likely to be looking at meaning it is all inbound to that link. I saw it appear on my FB feed moments after it was posted. My Tweetdeck column for "MIT shooter" is moving nearly as rapidly as the one for #BostonMarathonExplosion and almost everyone is sharing the link to them MIT site.
- homosaur 14y agoYou know I had never thought about that, but Twitter really is the rapid alert system nowadays. You only really need to push messages to a few select parties then boom, everyone knows. It has to be as effective or more than any other alert system we use.
- fredleblanc 14y agoMy last job was doing websites for higher education, and I can tell you that it's very much a thing. It's a part of many universities' emergency protocols, sometimes paired with an alert banner on the homepage. (And that banner may or may not link to a further page of information.) While things like a gunman on campus is most certainly an emergency, these systems also serve other messages. Things like other emergencies (earthquakes, for example), snow days, we're just testing the emergency alarms today, etc. Edit because I had another thought: the whole field of emergency preparedness in higher education is rather fascinating. Most of what I found interesting I had heard second-hand from clients, but you might find it quite interesting.
- homosaur 14y agoAt my old uni, you could submit a cell number to an emergency alert system and you would get texts if something like this went down. I'm guessing MIT has something similar although not sure if this system is part of it. I'm sure someone will clarify soon.
- bphogan 14y agoI wrote a system that did that for students. It was a ton of fun to work on. And then it didn't work because the cell phone towers couldn't handle it. So of course they scrapped my code, went with a third-party system, and had the same problem. Text messages during emergencies? Not a chance. Not when they don't even work for a simple test (hour delays!)
- jason_pr 14y agoMIT's system has been alerting me with automated phone calls and text messages within minutes of emergency reports. I've been really pleased with the speed of the system.
- HarryHirsch 14y agoMy uni has just that, and the nagging question I keep asking myself is just how much money are they spending on that service that is profoundly useless. When there is an emergency the police show up damn quick, and there is nothing to be gained for people on the other side of campus to receive a text that building X is on fire. I feel the money would be of more use elsewhere.
- lostlogin 14y agoMany places face hazards that have a delay before hitting - tsunami is one I know of specifically, and gunmen wondering around would seem to be relevant here. How is this not the best sort of alert system?
- HarryHirsch 14y ago> Many places face hazards that have a delay before hitting You ask yourself how people dealt with large-scale civil emergencies before cellphones became widespread. There were such things as warning sirens, and of course the police with loudspeaker vans. They are still doing that today - every time a hurricane is set to hit Miami the emergency services make the rounds of low-lying areas to get the word out to the homeless. And a gunman or shooter on campus just cannot be hid - people shout warnings, someone will alert the police, who will then cordon off the area. The costs for the messaging system are obvious, high, and altogether the thing appears more like ass-covering for the administration than something that has tangible benefits.
- aaron695 14y agoWell if you truly meant one life saved fair enough. So you'd have to deducted the people killed in making sites like these first. So a web site is possibly $40,000. A humans life in the US is probably worth around $2,000,000. So it might cost one 50th of a humans life to create a site like this. I'd guess not, but the figures are complicated, the site is used for other things for starters. I'd suspect a suicide help line would be better money spent. Don't drink and drive campaigns, healthy eating, quitting smoking help all far better returns I'd guess.
- jessriedel 14y ago1. Human lives are valued at between $6 and $8 million in the US. This is not what can be produced in the average human life, which is probably more like $1 million as I estimated recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5543848 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5543848 . Instead, it's how much it costs to save a human life on the margin, which is the applicable number here. 2. My impression from previous things I've read is that suicide lines are largely ineffective.
- rdl 14y agoThe figure I've seen is $2-4mm (based on payouts from life insurance by the government, etc.), but this was a few years ago, so maybe inflation. Obviously there are huge differences between humans.
- jessriedel 14y agoLife insurance payouts are actually an even worse measure of value here. Life insurance payouts should be set by the liabilities left over when someone dies (i.e. children that still need to be raised). A person with no dependents doesn't need life insurance (except for funeral expenses), but that doesn't mean orders of magnitude less should be spent to save their life.
- Mz 14y agoShould be but frequently are not. Life insurance is frequently based on current income rather than current liabilities, and that is before we get into known cases of fraud involving murder for the insurance money. Still I agree with you. Have a couple of upvotes. You can put a dollar value on a human life but it doesn't really cover it. Life is more than dollars and cents.
- untog 14y agoDon't wish to make light of this at all, but I do wonder- how often does this happen? After all, "shots fired" is not an uncommon thing in many cities in the US. I just wonder whether we will look back in 12 months time at the "week of hell" and realise that it was actually just a week in which we found all the things that usually go on every week that we don't hear about.
- michaelochurch 14y agoI just wonder whether we will look back in 12 months time at the "week of hell" The mid-April week has always had a higher-than-normal rate of manic-type (e.g. spree killings) violence, and there are a lot of theories about it (spring inciting grandeur in unstable men) but no one knows why. Those are very rare, high-visibility events, though. Overall, that time is no more dangerous than any other. (There's only about a +/- 5 percent seasonal difference in violent crime, with summer and December being the worst).
- untog 14y agoI've certainly read before that it being tax day brings out the 'crazies', which makes at least some semblance of sense.
- Kudzu_Bob 14y agoApril is the cruelest month.
- cookiecaper 14y agoTax day is a factor, but other anniversaries are likely to set off right-wing assailants. OKC and Waco both occurred in mid-April. Hitler was born and died in April (relevant only for certain brands of right-wing assailants).
- Surio 14y agoJulius Caesar was murdered in March/April, as I recall!
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- homosaur 14y agoAwful big political play considering you know zero details about this
- shloime 14y agoStay safe everyone.
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- weisser 14y agoNO. Unsure why that is saying edited 4 minutes ago but they are linking to the AP article from Feb 23rd which did turn out to be a hoax. This is the article they link to: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/mit-lockdown-after-reports-armed-gunman http://bigstory.ap.org/article/mit-lockdown-after-reports-ar...
- pegler 14y agoThis seems to be confusing what is happening right now with what happened a few months ago: http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N7/hoax.html http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N7/hoax.html MIT has NOT called off the lock down yet: http://emergency.mit.net/ http://emergency.mit.net/
- escaped_hn 14y agoBoston is not having a good week.
- GabrielF00 14y agoFWIW there have been other shootings in Boston since the marathon. They've just been in places like Dudley Square that the national media don't care about. At least five people were shot in Boston on Wednesday night. http://www.universalhub.com/crime/20130417-night-bloodshed-two-shot-woodrow-avenue-dorchester.html http://www.universalhub.com/crime/20130417-night-bloodshed-t... There is something a bit perverse about the disparity in the media attention given to violence that occurs north of the Mass Pike versus south of the Pike.
- homosaur 14y agoI see from the report that they are urging people to stay away from 32 specifically. Can anyone clarify if they have someone trapped inside the building, or are they just trying to keep people away from the police net?
- emily37 14y agoIt sounds like the suspect fled in an unknown direction.
- weisser 14y ago"MIT officer was shot and firearm was stolen. No suspect description, no direction of flight, happened about 45 minutes ago, was an MIT officer, is at Mass General now." Manually transcribed from police scanner: http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6254/web http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6254/web
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- coryl 14y agoAFAIK, the bombs used were triggered by kitchen timers, not remote detonation.
- cantbecool 14y agoYeah, CNN and NBC were reporting that they were remote detonators. Who knows with all the misinformation floating around the media.
- doktrin 14y agoIf this had involved known suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, there would probably have been a small platoon of federal officers involved. The officer in this instance is MIT police.
- cantbecool 14y agoWow, my hyptohesis was correct, the events were related to each other.
- doktrin 14y agoYeah, it certainly looks that way. I guess we'll know for certain in the morning, but I have no problem admitting being incorrect now :)
- homosaur 14y agoMight have spoken too soon...
- emily37 14y ago"There was a shooting at 32 Vassar St... No suspect description... No direction of flight..." MIT officer was shot and weapon stolen, I think they said the weapon was recovered. Officer is at MGH. Witness in lobby of Stata saw man in cowboy hat. (All that on the police scanner in the last minute or so)
- imjk 14y agoI'm hearing it was armed robbery with life threatening injuries to the MIT police officer: http://www.wcvb.com/MIT-campus-police-officer-shot/-/9849586/19811308/-/dxxpsh/-/index.html#.UXC4sylOZhY.facebook http://www.wcvb.com/MIT-campus-police-officer-shot/-/9849586... https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10151573440556620&id=151608536619 https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1015157344...
- bengl3rt 14y agoOn MBTA police scanner I hear hipsanic, possibly wearing a cowboy hat, with blood on him
- weisser 14y agoLive stream of police scanner: http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6254/web http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6254/web
- marcamillion 14y agoThanks for this. Kinda feels weird sitting in Jamaica listening to the police scanner around MIT. Kinda awesome too - I know the tech is simple...but actually experiencing it, gives you this "world is small" feeling.
- nikatwork 14y agoI would dearly love to be able to listen to the Jamaican police scanner!
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- dr_doom 14y agoEdit again. Much better collection of pics https://twitter.com/JoeXu/status/325086354176364545/photo/1 https://twitter.com/JoeXu/status/325086354176364545/photo/1
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- niico 14y agoRT @NBCConnecticut: #Breaking : Mass State Police confirm #MIT officer wounded in shooting has died.
- weisser 14y ago"The MIT officer, a member of the Cambridge Police Department, died from his wounds just before midnight."
- pseut 14y agoPlease link to the source for quotations like that (or cite it if it's not a webpage).
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- uvdiv 14y agoAn MIT police officer was killed. A university police officer has died after being shot on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge late Thursday, according to state police. http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/18/us/cambridge-gunshots/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/18/us/cambridge-gunshots/index.ht...
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- benatkin 14y agoThe Tech is "MIT's oldest and largest newspaper". https://twitter.com/thetech https://twitter.com/thetech
- dopamean 14y agoI would like to add that the suspect made off with the officer's gun as well. That is according to what I heard on the police scanner.
- anigbrowl 14y agoIt may or may not be connected, but police in Boston have surrounded two men who are exchanging automatic gunfire them and have thrown grenades, another officer down. The grenades have been mentioned repeatedly, it's not 'I think I heard.' http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6254/web http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6254/web via Reddit. :-/
- alwillis 14y agoPossibly related carjacking after the shooting: https://twitter.com/NewsBreaker/status/325105581968994306 https://twitter.com/NewsBreaker/status/325105581968994306
- argonaut 14y agoOn the police scanner, I'm hearing shots fired, grenades, and explosives. Wow. This is not going well. EDIT: And officer down. That's been confirmed again. EDIT 2: Two suspects down, one sent to hospital.
- mindcrime 14y ago"definitely hand grenades and automatic gunfire, and a second officer down". Holy shit... WTF is going on up there?!?
- tagx 14y agoApparently the shooters carjacked a Mercedes and headed towards Watertown (~7mi away) and are throwing explosives Update: One suspect in custody
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- spitx 14y agoPhoto (some gore): http://static.dnaindia.com/images/cache/1824279.jpg http://static.dnaindia.com/images/cache/1824279.jpg Brief video: https://vine.co/v/bUigVwhlIhq https://vine.co/v/bUigVwhlIhq
- hingisundhorsa 14y agoAnyone else get the feeling we are we making HN become like every news/forum site now? Reporting every and any shot fired anywhere in the world?
- ovis 14y agoI would imagine that MIT is particularly close to the hearts of many on this site.
- hingisundhorsa 14y agoSigh. That justifies spamming HN?
- petercooper 14y agoYep, despite the HN guidelines noting that stories about crime are off topic and "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." But, really, if people are voting these stories up, it's democracy in action, off topic or not. It's also ok to flag them as per guidelines.
- weisser 14y ago"Second officer down, hand grenades and automatic gunfire." In Watertown, Spruce and Lincoln. http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6254/web http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6254/web
- vitobcn 14y agoSimilar information available at the Tech twitter stream: https://twitter.com/thetech https://twitter.com/thetech
- icambron 14y agoSomething big definitely just happened. I have never seen so many police cars drive so fast in the same direction. They were all heading north on Mass Ave from me, which is consistent with that location.
- dantillberg 14y agoTo expand, there was an armed carjacking in Cambridge by two men. The carjacking victim escaped after a half hour. Lojack on the car led officers to Watertown. When officers found the car, reports of shots fired, explosions / grenades and a running gun battle. Update: one suspect reportedly in custody en route to hospital. Sounds like second suspect has been taken into custody as well. Later update: NOT clear that second suspect is in custody. Edit: Rough location of the armed confrontation where the suspect(s) were taken into custody and the second officer was reported down. https://maps.google.com/maps?q=spruce+st,+Cambridge,+MA&hl=en&ll=42.36766,-71.170979&spn=0.009687,0.01899&sll=42.369975,-71.171644&sspn=0.009686,0.01899&t=h&gl=us&hnear=Spruce+St,+Watertown,+Middlesex,+Massachusetts+02472&z=16 https://maps.google.com/maps?q=spruce+st,+Cambridge,+MA&...
- weisser 14y ago"All units retreat." Sounds like there are explosives... REMEMBER this is a chase that went from MIT to Watertown. This is NOT at MIT...far away now.
- neghast 14y agoExplosives detonated according to the MIT newspaper, The Tech: https://www.facebook.com/themittech https://www.facebook.com/themittech
- EvanAnderson 14y agoThey are advising all officers to power down their cell phones for fear of explosion. This is bad. They're talking about robots on the scene with "devices". It sounds like there are some suspicious devices, potentially explosives. Yikes.
- mindcrime 14y agoPolice are being asked to power down their cellphones to avoid possibly detonating some explosive devices. "multiple locations of devices"... Damn.
- acomjean 14y agocambridge police on twitter. I live here. Its a somewhat automated system, but the sometime respond to questions. https://twitter.com/CambridgePolice https://twitter.com/CambridgePolice
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- mindcrime 14y agoSounds like things are still pretty sketchy up there. Lots of shouting about possibly another active shooter on the loose. Wow, just wow...
- orangethirty 14y agoAm I crazy or does the person in this photo sort of resemble one of the people in the marathon suspect pictures released by the FBI? http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/759765692.jpg http://d3j5vwomefv46c.cloudfront.net/photos/large/759765692.... I was wrong. But news outlets are reporting the people responsible for this tragedy are the same people suspected for the Boston Marathon bombing.
- WestCoastJustin 14y agoBreakdown of what is happening on this reddit thread [1]. You can listen to the police scanner here [2]. Live steaming video here [3]. For those listening on the scanner this is the area/streets they are talking about [4]. [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1cnwms/mods_removed_thread_live_updates_of_boston/ http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1cnwms/mods_removed_th... [2] http://tunein.com/radio/Boston-Police-Fire-and-EMS-Scanner-s146109/ http://tunein.com/radio/Boston-Police-Fire-and-EMS-Scanner-s... [3] http://www1.whdh.com/video/7newslive http://www1.whdh.com/video/7newslive [4] https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=100+talcott&hl=en&ll=42.363142,-71.162395&spn=0.003413,0.008256&sll=42.363142,-71.16342&sspn=0.003413,0.0103&hq=100+talcott&t=m&z=18 https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=100+talcott&hl=en&ll=4...
- weisser 14y agoA much-needed mirror (broadcastify is getting slammed): http://tunein.com/radio/Boston-Police-Fire-and-EMS-Scanner-s146109/ http://tunein.com/radio/Boston-Police-Fire-and-EMS-Scanner-s...
- WestCoastJustin 14y agoUpdated -- thanks!
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- a_p 14y agoThe most accurate information may be gleaned from police scanners. News cameras may give you pictures of the amount of police officers at the scene, but they cannot get close enough to give you video of what's actually happening. The irony is that of those three sources of information (Web site, radio, news camera), the best source of "real time" information is the oldest. Yes, it's true that the scanner is being broadcast over the internet, but you could listen to the police scanner with amateur radio equipment decades ago. EDIT: I find that it is much easier to listen to the police scanner than a news station, because the SNR ratio is much higher. When there is a break in the action, news reporters fill the air time with speculation or repeat the same old information. On the police scanner, when they have no new information, they are silent. Having said that, I still find it cool to hear an officer ask the dispatcher (on the radio) to tell an overhead helicopter to point a searchlight at a certain location, and moments later see on television a helicopter flying overhead with its searchlight on.
- rexreed 14y agoAn intense twitter feed on the shootout: https://twitter.com/akitz https://twitter.com/akitz
- austenallred 14y agoSet up http://fastlane.grasswire.com http://fastlane.grasswire.com to follow it - hopefully the aggregate of all social media can be of some help
- film42 14y agoI have an exam at 7am tomorrow, please don't crash it again guys. Thanks!!
- sohamsankaran 14y agoMIT Emergency Update: "MIT Police have determined that the suspect in this evening’s shooting is no longer on campus. It is now safe to resume normal activities. Please remain vigilant in the coming hours"
- robot 14y ago25 shots fired in Watertown. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/04/theres-shooter-loose-and-officer-down-mit/64379/ http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/04/theres-shoot...
- weisser 14y agoOne marathon suspect has been captured, according to an official with knowledge of the investigation. Another remains on the loose in Watertown after a firefight with police. Authorities have established a 20-block perimeter as they search for him. Via Boston Globe: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/18/mit-police-officer-hit-gunfire-cambridge-police-dispatcher-says/4UeCClOVeLr8PHLvDa99zK/story.html http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/18/mit-police-offic... Does this source seem accurate? Remember that the globe AND CNN previously claimed an arrest in the marathon bombings had been made and it was incredibly embarrassing.
- pigou 14y agoThe article has been updated to clarify that this is merely speculative: > Authorities would not comment on whether the events were connected to Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings. At least one of the suspects in Watertown appeared to be a man in his 20s. However, the first paragraph still says basically what it said when you posted. > One suspect in Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings has been captured
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- denzil_correa 14y agoIt seems one suspect (at least) connected to the shootings (as heard on the BPD scanner) was identified by reddit user yesterday ID'ed the brown male guy - Sunil Tripathi. Wow!
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- denzil_correa 14y agoThe suspect although brown is a US national brought up in Bryn Mawr, PA. https://twitter.com/MichaelSkolnik/status/325144306698567680 https://twitter.com/MichaelSkolnik/status/325144306698567680
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- nikcub 14y agothe Sunil Tripathi thread started when his roomate saw the FBI photos and said on Twitter that it is Sunil
- sGrabber 14y agoAnother unfortunate incident in Boston. MIT Police is bringing things under control. MIT has reported one MIT officer killed and have again requested everyone to be indoors. Hope Boston becomes normal soon
- pidge 14y agoI'm mapping stuff from the reddit thread here - http://goo.gl/maps/uz6kt http://goo.gl/maps/uz6kt Anyone can edit.
- omegant 14y agoThey are telling that the shooting is related to the marathon bombing.
- spitx 14y agoFamily of missing Brown university student Sunil Tripathi has taken down the Facebook page dedicated to him. Source: http://gawker.com/5995034/active-shooter-incident-at-mit-mit-police-officer-shot http://gawker.com/5995034/active-shooter-incident-at-mit-mit... Cached version of FB page : http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=help+us+find+sunil+tripathi&d=4800958371725771&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=nld1_cZ9TIaHOQiAMeSeWxqLMiqIiDje http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=help+us+find+sunil+tripathi... Twitter account : https://twitter.com/findingsunny https://twitter.com/findingsunny ABC News segment from March 30, 2013: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/sunil-tripathi-video-missing-ivy-league-student-case-18845408 http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/sunil-tripathi-video-missing... Police scanner identifies the names of Boston marathon suspects. Suspect 1: Mike Mulugeta Suspect 2: Sunil Tripathi Source(s) : https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedAndrew/status/325141259515752448 https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedAndrew/status/325141259515752448 https://twitter.com/Salon/status/325152165305937920 https://twitter.com/Salon/status/325152165305937920 https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/325141840561074176 https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/325141840561074176 UPDATE 1: Middlesex DA: One suspect ( donning a black hat in previously released FBI images ) is dead, second suspect is at large, and is believed to be armed and dangerous. Source: http://twitpic.com/ckd6xd http://twitpic.com/ckd6xd UPDATE 2: Boston PD releases picture of Suspect 2 retrieved earlier from the 7-Eleven convenience store, possibly the site of the carjacking. Source: https://twitter.com/Boston_Police/status/325161511549009921/photo/1 https://twitter.com/Boston_Police/status/325161511549009921/... UPDATE 3: Home video footage from a street in Watertown where the exchange of gunfire took place earlier in the night, during which Suspect 1 may have been killed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSlRHJv1nnA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSlRHJv1nnA UPDATE 4: Photo of billboard displaying a missing person alert for Sunil Tripathi http://riehlworldview.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/missing-bilboard-for-bad-guy.jpg http://riehlworldview.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/missing...
- a_p 14y agoWCVB is reporting that [NAME 1] has died from his wounds [1]. [NAME 2] is still at large — the police are setting up a perimeter and the search will become much easier in several hours when the sun rises. [1] http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/metro/Boston-Marathon-suspect-killed-second-sought-after-Watertown-explosions-gunfire/-/11971628/19812240/-/8jn3t7/-/index.html http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/metro/Boston-Marathon-suspect... EDIT: As I follow the news, it becomes clearer that a large majority of the information is coming from the police scanner. It is interesting to see the way old and new technologies are mixing in the coverage. The reddit thread is essentially a scraper of the scanner; it is very useful to have access to the transcription of important audio because you can take breaks without worrying about missing something. EDIT 2: Because the names haven't been confirmed yet (Pete Williams says that Tripathi is not suspect #2), and have been removed from the original article, I thought I would change my post accordingly. The names were picked up from the BPD scanner. [NAME 1: Mike Mulugeta] [NAME 2: Sunil Tripathi]
- tlow 14y agoPolice scanner warns of "explosive object on his person" for the one suspect at large 1:33a pst.
- weisser 14y ago1st suspect had explosive object on his person that detonated when he was caught - possibly what killed him. They need to be incredibly careful with the 2nd suspect if we want any conclusive answers to why all of this happened.
- weisser 14y agoUpdate: Removing info about suspicious MIT package since it has been verified as harmless.
- jcfrei 14y agoa good police scanner feed from the area: http://scanner.wickedlocal.com/metro/cambridge.php http://scanner.wickedlocal.com/metro/cambridge.php
- bane 14y agohttp://www.cnn.com/2013/04/19/us/boston-area-violence/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/19/us/boston-area-violence/index....
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- eranation 14y agoThe MIT shooter was one of the marathon bombing terrorists according to CNN if I got it correctly http://bit.ly/11pohgx http://bit.ly/11pohgx > The search followed a violent night in which authorities say the men allegedly hurled explosives at pursuers after killing a university police officer, robbing a convenience store and hijacking a car. > ...Soon after, in Cambridge, across the Charles River from Boston, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer was fatally shot while he sat in his car, the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said in statement. Police believe the bombing suspects were responsible for the shooting.
- suyash 14y agoMarathon Bomber's Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/J_tsar https://twitter.com/J_tsar #conversationswithothersuspects