Explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon

[Tale]

MIT area has cops responding to:

1. this cop shot dead
2. lobby fire at nearby address
3. carjacking nearby by two armed men

See @MichaelPageWx on Twitter. Editing as he tweets:

- the carjacked black Mercedes with the two armed men is being tracked in Watertown.
- Shots fired near Dexter Ave. and Laurel.
- Explosions reported by cops on scanner.
- White male with white T-shirt. Running near Mt. Auburn St. Still firing their weapons

Still wondering if you'll have to merge this back into the bombing thread. Suspects are student age, and this is a trail of destruction starting at MIT. Can't tell.

[Tale]

Area scanners: http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/ctid/1221

[MahrinSkel]

They're in a stolen state police SUV now.  Go to the twitter feed, people, this is insane.

--Dave

EDIT: Explosions confirmed, police are talking about dynamite.  We can officially call this related to the bombings, I think, common carjackers don't use explosives.  Seriously, go to the twitter feed, I'm not going to keep echoing it

2) Scanner feed overloaded, CNN live feed shut down, MSNBC doing some "healing boston" filler piece.

3) Suspects in custody, one on the way to the hospital, and every mainstream news site is still not showing a damned thing.  Seriously, guys?  Instant reporting of every half-assed piece of bullshit, and something real happens and you're all on a smoke break?

4) I am officially done with cable TV news.  Fuck, you can give me breaking coverage of Kim Kardashian going to yoga, but this happens and all you've got is news of the first shooting, posted on your websites 1 to 2 hours after it happened by interns that copy-pasted the AP report?  While your "24 Hour News Network" gives me Wolf Blitzer, Nancy Grace, and Bill O'Reilly re-runs?  Fuck you guys.

And kudoes, Tale.  Australian news scoops the billion-dollar "infotainment" colossus, and thank you for cluing us in.

5) Even Google News is still two hours in the past.  I'm told you can't drive near the courthouse or the bombing site for news vans, hotels all over the city booked up with crews, and the only guy actually being a fucking journalist is the god-damned *weatherman* on Twitter?  Just give it up, burn your press cards, tear up your "communications" degrees, and fuck right off.

[Rendakor]

And they have dynamite. 

[Tale]

Dark sideways video said to be of suspects in shootout: http://twitter.yfrog.com/1fu2xpnryybxwjqpdtnynwdaz

Similar clothing to bombers.

[Abagadro]

There is just some sort of crazy cosmic shit that attaches to this week of the year.

[Ghambit]

OFFICER ASSIST
04/19/13 01:27   (WATERTOWN - ) UPDATE:2 PIPE BOMBS IN THE ROADWAY- 1 BEING NEUTRALIZED- 2ND LIVE- AREA BEING EVACUATED. [MAS163]
OFFICER ASSIST
04/19/13 01:05   (WATERTOWN - ) UPDATE: UN-EXPLODED ORDINANCE LOCATED- REQ. EODS TO SCENE. [MAS163]
OFFICER ASSIST
04/19/13 01:00   (WATERTOWN - ) UPDATE: 1 SUSPECT DOWN @ 49 LAUREL ST- 2ND SUSPECT SILL AT LARGE- LARGE PERIMETER. [MAS163]

[Abagadro]

Ya, listening to the scanner and they are still looking for a guy.

MIT & Watertown may be two separate things.

[MahrinSkel]

Ya, listening to the scanner and they are still looking for a guy.

MIT & Watertown may be two separate things.

When was the last time you heard of carjackers with pipe bombs/dynamite?

--Dave

EDIT: Or are you saying there may be a third person still at large?

[Tale]

Could this be the bombing suspect with the black cap and sunglasses?



They also got this guy:

[Abagadro]

Guy laying down was apparently let go. Wrong place wrong time nothing to do with it.

[Ghambit]

The one guy who had to strip down before being taken into custody is thought (by a reporter) to possibly be the darker skinned bomber.
The other guy that was on the ground (in the cnn video) didn't look much like the gimpy-legged bomber, but it's tough to tell with his face on the concrete and no hat on.  It's possible; hair color was right but it didnt seem curly enough.  Then again, maybe he was an accomplice.

Fuck this scanner feed, every tom dick and harry in the country is listening in.  Is there a mirror feed somewhere?

edit: and u beat me to the pix

[Abagadro]

Description of guy at large was "light skin, hat".

[Abagadro]

Making entry into a house with a Tac squad.

[Tale]

Resident's video of gunfire and shouting

And kudoes, Tale.  Australian news scoops the billion-dollar "infotainment" colossus, and thank you for cluing us in.

I just happened to be following the right Boston reporters, who in turn followed and retweeted the right people. It didn't much help me in my job, other than passing the right tweets on to my co-workers, as I'm not working on this story.

Fuck this scanner feed, every tom dick and harry in the country is listening in.

You mean "in every country" :)

[Ghambit]

This guy has a pretty badass twitter feed.  He's fairly certain they're the bombers from his language.
https://twitter.com/akitz

[Tale]

Boston Globe says they have officially been told one Marathon bombing suspect has been caught, and another is on the loose in Watertown after a firefight with police.

[Abagadro]

New FBI close up photos and they don't look anything like the guy they have bent over the car.

http://www.fbi.gov/news/updates-on-investigation-into-multiple-explosions-in-boston/updates-on-investigation-into-multiple-explosions-in-boston

[Ghambit]

Found the bomb drop pic (8-yr old martin on the rail with his father btw):

[MahrinSkel]

never mind

[Abagadro]

I'm listening here which is the main Boston scanner feed:

http://tunein.com/station/?StationId=146109

[Hammond]

I am listening to the same Boston Scanner feed as Abagadro

[Tale]

The New York Times has a good story after talking to @akitz (linked above), the Twitter user living across the street from the gunfire (he's now tweeting pics of bullet holes in his furniture).

Andrew Kitzenburg, 29, said he looked out of this third floor window to see two young men of slight build in jackets shooting at dozens of police officers from behind a black Mercedes SUV. The officers and the men were 70 yards apart, he said, and engaged in “constant gunfire.”

A police SUV “drove towards the shooters,” he said, and was shot at until it was severely damaged. It rolled out of control, Mr. Kitzenberg said, and crashed into two cars in his driveway.

The two shooters, he said, had a large and unwieldy bomb. “They lit it, still in the middle of the gunfire, and threw it. But it went 20 yards at most.” It exploded, he said, and one of the two men ran towards the gathered police officers. He was tackled, but it was not clear if he was shot, Mr Kitzenberg said.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/policeman-killed-at-mit-sparking-manhunt-20130419-2i4xc.html#ixzz2Qt9cHdsQ

[Ghambit]

Theory (if it's them):
Some vigilant MIT student reported the bombers to campus PD, PD responded, got shot and killed, and from that point the bombers went on the run.

[Abagadro]

Very clear call of the description they are looking for: White Male, Black Curly Hair, Grey Hoodie, armed with assault rifle and possible explosive.

This is them.

[Abagadro]

Yup, dispatch just said "it's the guy in the white hat from the photo."

[murdoc]

BPD scanner has identified the names : Suspect 1: Mike Mulugeta Suspect 2: Sunil Tripathi. Suspect 2 is the missing Brown University student from Providence, if this info is correct.

[MahrinSkel]

Can't get any of the scanners to come up for me, listening to WBZ News Radio.

--Dave

[MahrinSkel]

BPD scanner has identified the names : Suspect 1: Mike Mulugeta Suspect 2: Sunil Tripathi. Suspect 2 is the missing Brown University student from Providence, if this info is correct.

reddit 6 hours ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1cn9ga/is_missing_student_sunil_tripathi_marathon_bomber/

--Dave

[Abagadro]

Foot pursuit. Calling for SWAT assets to assist.

[Tale]

Friend of Sunil Tripathi: https://twitter.com/kmattio

[Ghambit]

https://twitter.com/findingsunny/status/323775164775022592

This is some surreal shit.  Maybe merge the threads?

[Abagadro]

Can I just take a moment to comment how amazing it is I am sitting in Utah, listening to a police scanner in Mass. in real time, looking at a photo taken by a satellite in space to see the locations they are referring to?

I also have the cable TV news on next to me and it is sooooo embarrassing how far behind they are and how they are focusing on stuff that has been completely debunked. They come off as completely clownshoes if you are following this shit in real time.

[Cyrrex]

Even just following this thread from work is a bit surreal.  Good job, all of youse.

[Tale]

There's a story about the finding of homemade explosives at Hanover, Massachusetts, last month. Witnesses saw two separate explosions and several unexploded devices were found.

And the police officer to contact is called Officer Moar. Moar investigation!