Boston Marathon Bombing Discussion

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**KalashnikovMarine**

apparently my friend is reading me twitter postings off from boston emergency communications
Shooting/murder at MIT, carjacking a few miles away by two Middle Eastern males, both armed. Now in Watertown after being chased. Shooting at police, grenades, explosions. Officers screaming on scanner "LOUD EXPLOSIONS! LOUD EXPLOSIONS!!"

@BlogsofWar: Boston scanner - "They have explosives here at the scene." "Officer down""

@NewsBreaker: BREAKING: Scanner: Dispatcher: "Retreat, retreat" after officer radios in there are undetonated devices
@BlogsofWar: Boston scanner - Explosives on scene. Dispatcher "All units retreat. retreat." One suspect MAY be injured. Needs to be dead!
@BlogsofWar: Boston scanner - Bomb squad responding to a "package in the roadway"

Now there's live coverage from the local news affiliates.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/live-video/

One suspect in custody! Man hunt continues for second suspect.

**Coolyo294**

This has been a really crappy week.

**Somedude593**

Isnt the west supposed to be the wild part of our country?

**KalashnikovMarine**

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

1 officer KIA, one officer WIA was taken to Beth Israel hospital, no update on his condition.
One suspect is in police hands, manhunt and house by house search is continuing for other suspect, Mt Auborn hospital just went on Code Black (bomb thread condition)

**RatBot**

Jesus fething Christ.

**KalashnikovMarine**

http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/metro/Uncut-Shootout-between-suspects-in-Watertown/-/11971628/19812452/-/cjrx2vz/-/index.html?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=wcvb&utm_source=hootsuite&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=wcvb%2Bchannel%2B5%2Bboston

Uncut footage of part of the shoot out.

Situation is ONGOING police preparing to enter home.

According to the Boston Globe this situation IS related to the Marathon bombing.

@BostonGlobe: One Marathon bombing suspect has been caught, and another is on the loose in Watertown after a firefight with police, officials said.

**thenoobbomb**

Mother of god.

**Hordini**

This is crazy.

**LordofHats**

The gak is going down man.

**motyak**

Well at least there is only one left roaming, right? Or am I misunderstanding this

**SagesStone**

Are they really suspects in the bombing before, or is the Globe just assuming this?

They've at least got one of them anyway, shame about the officer though. They'll get the other guy eventually, just hopefully it won't lead to bystanders or more officers being injured.

**Hordini**

motyak wrote:
Well at least there is only one left roaming, right? Or am I misunderstanding this

That's the way it sounds so far from listening to the radio chatter, but I don't think anything has been confirmed yet.

**KalashnikovMarine**

Apparently one suspect was shot and killed according to the local NBC news affiliate

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/18/mit-police-officer-hit-gunfire-cambridge-police-dispatcher-says/4UeCClOVeLr8PHLvDa99zK/story.html?s_campaign=sm_tw

**SagesStone**

Shame that you can't really take their word for it any more and need to wait for stuff to be confirmed properly.

Cause on that stream, they're talking about how they're still looking for him and that's what they had just been told by the police. Really that radio link is probably the best source to follow it.

Edit: Unless they had killed the first guy instead of arresting him.

**Grey Templar**

Well feth

**KalashnikovMarine**

BREAKING: State Police spox: 2 suspects have been "accounted for" in Watertown scene; don't know how many there are in all -
Mass State Police: Multiple explosive devices used against police tonight in Watertown

**DA's Forever**

Hopefully it was only two and we can put this to rest.. Also, More explosives? How much of this crap did they have laying around?

**KalashnikovMarine**

Much apparently.

From a scanner: "The white male should be considered armed and dangers. Possibly with explosives and an assault rifle."

**DA's Forever**

Jesus... This craps outta hand

**SagesStone**

Scary to think what they were trying to do at that MIT building with all this stuff.

**RatBot**

fething hell. I've never been in a war zone, but when they play the video footage of the shoot out(s), I imagine that's exactly what one sounds like. Maybe with less automatic weapon fire.

**KalashnikovMarine**

80 to 100 rounds fired as a conservative estimate from someone on the scene.

Wars make that sound like fire crackers though

**RatBot**

Well, in any event, I hope these fethers are neutralized soon, one way or the other.

**DA's Forever**

n0t_u wrote:
Scary to think what they were trying to do at that MIT building with all this stuff.

Yeah very scary, Looking at the suspect pictures if they are supposed to be the Boston Marathon bombers, looks like they could be students there. Which brings up a few unpleasant ideas

**KalashnikovMarine**

More raw video of the shoot out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wSlRHJv1nnA

Definently sounds like rifle fire to me. For sure some 5.56 reports, probably from police officer patrol rifles (AR-15/M16s) and the deeper report sounds like AK fire to me. Does NOT sound like full auto fire though. Until right at the end any way, that sounds like some 5.56 full auto fire, which I'd attribute to police officers returning fire.

BPD scanner has identified the names : Suspect 1: Mike Mulugeta Suspect 2: Sunil Tripathi”

Watertown residents told to "roll up their windows, locks their doors & stay inside" -- This is still VERY active

**DA's Forever**

Hopefully they have the Fugger penned up in an area and not running loose

**KalashnikovMarine**

BREAKING: Scanner: Watertown PD in foot pursuit of suspect near Cypress & Dexter. ONLY SWAT units being assigned to back them up

**Ouze**

What's with all the "BREAKINGS"?

Also, one of the suspects has been purportedly identified as that missing college student. Who knows if that's true, at this point people are just making stuff up to fill the silence, but interesting if it turns out to be. I wonder what was in that note now.

That turned out to not be true.

**KalashnikovMarine**

I'm copying this stuff off twitter cause they're typing faster then I am even though we're listening to the same scanners. They seem to like "Breaking"

**Ouze**

If you want to follow it on fark, they have a thread here - go to the last page and just keep refreshing.

Not sure which source is better, if either, but I'm sure they're both better than the Dewey defeats Truman info CNN keeps posting.