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UPDATE 6: 08.49: The names Sunil or Sunny have been heard on the Boston police scanner tonight referring to Suspect No 2, the man who is still on the run
by spitx 13y ago
UPDATE 6:
08.49: The names Sunil or Sunny have been heard on the
Boston police scanner tonight referring to Suspect No 2,
the man who is still on the run. Sunil Tripathi, a
philosophy major at Brown University has been missing for
a month. Local press reports say that Boston police have
identified him as a suspect.
Mr Tripathi is described as a left-wing Marxist of
Indian Brahmin descent, whose father is a successful
software developer. His family set up a Twitter account
and a Facebook page last month to help the search for
him. Mr Tripathi was first identified as a suspect in a
crowdsleuthing exercise on the Reddit website.
The other suspect, who was wearing the black hat, has
been named as Mike Mulugeta. He is thought to have died
in hospital after a shoot-out with police.
Their identities have not been officially confirmed.
Source:
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/americas/article3743697.ece http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/americas/article374...
- ajju 13y ago"Brahmin"!? His caste is relevant, how, exactly? Only a British (or worse, Indian) newspaper would find the necessity to point out the caste of some person being tried by a public mob based on things heard on a police scanner.
- asimov42 13y agoI have never read an Indian newspaper making reference to someone's caste unless it was somewhat related to the story.
- ajju 13y agoYou are right - Indian newspapers usually refer to it only when it is at least tangentially relevant - eg. usually they'll refer to some politician's caste. I consider this to be just as bad because it continues to put caste front and center as a factor to be considered when evaluating a political.
- signed0 13y agoThe AP just reported that they are from Russia. https://twitter.com/AP/status/325196873486962688 https://twitter.com/AP/status/325196873486962688 Update: AP now reports the suspect is Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev https://twitter.com/AP/status/325198361428893698 https://twitter.com/AP/status/325198361428893698
- snarf 13y agoThe update you quoted above has conveniently been deleted from the source now that the AP has done some real reporting and identified the Russian suspects.