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From the Boston Globe:

WATERTOWN — One suspect in Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings has been apprehended, according to an official with knowledge of the investigation. Another appears to remain on the loose in Watertown after a firefight with police. A 20-block perimeter was established as authorities searched for him.

The Middlesex District Attorney’s office said that the suspect taken into custody was pronounced dead at a hospital. The DA’s office did not independently confirm the connection to the marathon bombings.

A scene of chaos descended on Cambridge and Watertown late Thursday night and early Friday morning, as police confirmed an MIT police officer was shot and killed, and an armed carjacking led police on a frenetic chase into Watertown. Hundreds of police officer flooded Cambridge and Watertown.

A spokesman for the MBTA said that a transit officer had been shot and was in serious condition.

Go here to read the rest.  Go here for the latest developments.

 

Update I:  AP is reporting that the two bombers are from Chechnya and have been in this country for about a year.

Update II:  And the second suspect is in police custody.  Good swift work to all involved:

 

 

In the waning moments of daylight, police descended Friday on a shrouded boat in a Watertown backyard to capture the suspected terrorist who had eluded their enormous dragnet for a tumultuous day, ending a dark week in Boston that ­began with the bombing of the world’s most prestigious road race.

The arrest of 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of Cambridge ended an unprecedented daylong siege of Greater Boston, after a frantic night of violence that left one MIT police officer dead, an MBTA Transit Police officer wounded, and an embattled public — rattled again by the touch of terrorism — huddled inside homes.

Tsarnaev’s elder brother and ­alleged accom­plice — 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the second suspect in Monday’s Boston Marathon attack — was pronounced dead early Friday morning at Beth Israel ­Deaconess Medical Center, ­after suffering shrapnel and bullet wounds in a gunfight with police.

“It’s a proud day to be a Boston police officer,” Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis told his force over the radio moments after the arrest. “Thank you all.”

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T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Friday, April 19, AD 2013 11:57am

It’s about 1PM and they haven’t finished it.

Sadly, there will be more cause for mourning before it’s over.

JL
JL
Friday, April 19, AD 2013 1:28pm

The Atlantic broke the MIT shooting last night, but neither I nor they made the possible connection between that incident and the bombing. With a brother at HLS, this is getting a little too close for comfort.

JL
JL
Friday, April 19, AD 2013 1:29pm

Also, I believe the brothers had been in the US for something closer to 10 years, only gaining citizenship in the past year.

Clinton
Clinton
Friday, April 19, AD 2013 1:36pm

So MSNBC and NPR and the other mainstream media will be walking back
their attempts to link the bombings to domestic, right-wing groups– when?

Phillip
Phillip
Friday, April 19, AD 2013 5:47pm

“So MSNBC and NPR and the other mainstream media will be walking back
their attempts to link the bombings to domestic, right-wing groups– when?”

Still to be clarified. But perhaps one of the bombers liked Obama:

http://www.bob-owens.com/twitter-feed-suggests-boston-marathon-terrorist-was-an-obama-supporter.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BobOwens+%28Bob+Owens%29

Phillip
Phillip
Friday, April 19, AD 2013 6:22pm
J. Christian
J. Christian
Friday, April 19, AD 2013 8:51pm

Phillip,

Interesting about his Twitter feed and supportive statements about Obama. Any chance the press will run with that one? Maybe ask our President if this kid’s values are similar to Obama’s (at least in the early, Alinsky years)? What if this guy had made supportive statements about Bush? Hmm…

Phillip
Phillip
Friday, April 19, AD 2013 9:11pm

J. Christian,

We’ll see if it turns out to be true. But if so, I’m sure the media will be all over it. Yeah. Any minute.

J.A.C.
J.A.C.
Monday, April 22, AD 2013 10:20am

Hmmm…the media is all over this story which IS important…but what about the Gossnell trial???

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