MIT Police Officer Slain, Prompting Mayhem in Boston

[SlyPokerDog]

Mayhem erupted in Boston early today as police captured suspects thought to be armed with automatic weapons and explosives after the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus officer.

Police responded en masse to reports of a carjacking and the possible shooting of a second officer about six miles from MIT, according to law enforcement radio transmissions. The radio reports indicated that two suspects were in custody, with one taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and a third thought to still be at large.

Warnings were issued by police over radio about “multiple explosive devices.” People in the area were told to stay off their mobile phones to avoid setting off any potential bombs.
The violence broke out when the MIT officer was shot on the school’s campus. The officer, who was not identified, was responding to reports of a disturbance on campus last night when he was shot, according to a statement from Middlesex Acting District Attorney Michael Pelgro.

The officer was found with multiple gunshot wounds and taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Pelgro said.

The incident at MIT erupted with Boston still coming to grips with the April 15 bombing of the city’s annual marathon that killed three people and injured more than 170 others. The Federal Bureau of Investigation yesterday released images of two men it said were suspects in the attack and asked for public help in identifying them.

Gunshots were heard at about 10:48 p.m. local time last night near the Ray and Maria Stata Center, and people have been asked to stay clear of the area, according to a statement posted on the university’s website.

Dogs Sniffing

“Although the situation is considered active and extremely dangerous, an investigation is under way,” according to the statement.

Officers from state and local law enforcement units were on the shooting scene early today, along with some personnel wearing FBI jackets. Two police dogs were seen sniffing around a building marked the McGovern Institute for Brain Research.

About 20 police vehicles with lights flashing were seen along Vassar Street, which was cordoned off with yellow crime- scene tape. A police boat with lights flashing was patrolling the nearby Charles River, and a helicopter hovered over the campus.

The Cambridge Police Department issued a message of condolences through a posting on the Twitter social network.

“Our thoughts & prayers are with the officer’s family & our brothers & sisters at the #MIT Police,” the Cambridge police said.

To contact the reporters on this story: Annie Linskey in Boston at alinskey@bloomberg.net; Stephen Merelman in New York at smerelman@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Stephen Merelman at

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-...shot-prompting-partial-closure-of-campus.html

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Crazy

 

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[SlyPokerDog]

Wrong guy, lol. Released and walked home.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Posted on facebook - https://www.facebook.com/video/embed?video_id=10152778880075249

 

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

 

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Two young men, armed with guns and explosives in what appeared to be backpacks, engaged in a violent standoff with dozens of police on a street in Watertown, Mass., Thursday night, a resident said.

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.
The other, he said, got back into the SUV, turned it toward the officers and “put the pedal to the metal.” The car “went right through the cops, broke right through and continued west.”
The two men left “a few backpacks right by the car, and there is a bomb robot out there now.” Police had told residents to stay away from their windows, he said.
The standoff came within hours of an incident at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in which a campus police officer was shot and killed.
The officer, who was not named, responded to a report of a disturbance near Vassar and Main Streets, the Middlesex County District Attorney Michael Pelgro said in a statement early Friday. He was found, the statement said with “multiple gunshot wounds” and taken to Massachusetts General Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
M.I.T. said in an update on its campus alert Web site after midnight that the “shooter remains at large, police continue to search the campus,” and asked students to stay indoors until further notice.
At the campus, helicopters whirred overhead, and police cars were dotted through the streets. A crime scene was cordoned off, and at least one dog unit was on the scene.
The two incidents came as the area was already on edge following the bombings at the Boston Marathon on Monday.



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/us/explosives-detonated-in-massachusetts-standoff.html?_r=2&

 

[SlyPokerDog]

WATERTOWN — One suspect in Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings 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.
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 apparent carjacking led police on a wild chase into Watertown.
Witnesses in Watertown said they heard explosions. Police officers were screaming about improvised explosive devices.
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.


http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...lOVeLr8PHLvDa99zK/story.html?s_campaign=sm_tw

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Unconfirmed possible video of shoot out taken by neighbor sounds like 40 shots

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[Further]

Fuck

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Dozens of police officers descended on Watertown Square after midnight. “This is still extremely dangerous,” an FBI agent said. The Cambridge bomb squad arrived in Watertown shortly after 1:30 a.m.

A man in handcuffs was being questioned by the FBI in the back of an ambulance.

At Arsenal Court and Arsenal Street in Watertown, an officer bellowed: “Ya gotta get outta here. There’s an active shooter here with an active explosive. Go!”

Peter Jennings, 33, said he was sleeping just before 1 a.m. in his home on Prentiss Street in Watertown when he was awakened by a huge boom.

“It sounded like a stick of dynamite went off,” he said. “I looked out the window, and it was like nothing I’ve ever seen – blue light after blue light after blue light.”

He said more than three dozen emergency vehicles with sirens blaring were heading down Rt. 16 West. He went to the end of his street, where some neighbors were gathering. The air, he said, smelled like “at the end of a fireworks show, like a wick smell.”

“I had a bad feeling because of what happened on Monday,” he said.

John Antonucci’s 79-year-old mother called him hysterical from her home in Laurel Street. She heard about five gun shots and didn’t know what to do.

“She was saying they’re running down the street shooting,” Antonucci said standing outside if yellow police tape. “She was crying so hard I couldn’t understand what she was talking about.”

So he told her: Stay inside the house.

Residents describe the neighborhood as safe and family oriented, where they leave open doors and windows and feed stray cats.

Standing on the corner of Quincy and Nichols as police officers hastily strung up caution tape, Lindsay Gaylord, 25, and Collin Ausfeld, 26, peered over the scene to get a glimpse of their apartment about a block away on Dartmouth Street.
“I was buying ice cream right there” -- Gaylord pointed to a structure a few steps away, behind the caution tape “just this afternoon.”

Ausfeld stared at the crime scene in front of him, trying to make sense of what he was seeing. As an afterthought, he muttered, “I hope the apartment doesn’t blow up.”

The couple said they moved to the neighborhood in January, leaving behind their Belmont place, because Watertown was closer to the city, and their block was quiet, safe, and friendly.

“After this, I still feel safe on this street,” Gaylord said. “I mean, you just never know with these things.”

Adam Healy, 31, said he stepped outside for a cigarette near one of the shooting scenes in Watertown, when he heard gunfire.

“I just heard tons of gunshots,” he said. “Gunshot, gunshot, gunshot, gunshot. Then I saw an explosion and saw a burst of light in the sky.”

Imran Saif, a cab driver, was parking his car for the night near Dexter and School streets and was preparing to bike home from Cambridge when he heard a series of loud noises that he said “sounded like fireworks.” He said he biked toward the sounds, thinking they fireworks, when people in nearby houses began waving him back, telling him it was gunfire.

“It just sounded like there was automatic weapons going off, and I heard a few explosions,” he said. “They sounded like fireworks, mostly, big fireworks going off -- tons, I’d say. I’m really scared. When I found out it was gunshots, that just knocked the wind out of me.”

Police were demanding that cellphones be turned off.

The MIT officer, who has not been identified, was shot multiple times at 10:48 p.m., according to the Middlesex district attorney’s office. No one else was hurt, and no *arrests had been made by early Friday.

The manhunt fanned out from *Kendall Square over an area that has endured a tragic and tumultuous week, in the aftermath of the fatal explosions at Monday’s Boston Marathon. There was no report of a connection between the two events, but the swarm of sirens and circling helicopters rattled a region already on edge.

Police from several agencies were conducting a manhunt for the gunman across the school campus and on the T’s Red Line, according to authorities.

MIT and Cambridge police responded to a report of shots fired at 10:48 p.m. Thursday near Main and Vassar streets, according to the university.

Police officers and canine units swept the campus, and a big swath of Vassar Street was blocked.

The university issued an alert to students and faculty to remain inside.

An eerie quiet descended on the campus as teams of *police officers combed the campus block by block. SWAT teams were present.

Police checked bushes and alleys and yanked on doors.

Officers from the MIT and Harvard departments, as well as Cambridge and State Police, were present.

Siddhartha Varshney was walking home from dinner with two friends when they were stopped at the police cordon.

“Initially, we thought they had caught the suspect in the bombing,” the 28-year-old said. But they then learned it was a shooting involving an MIT officer.
“Well, I — honestly — I mean, I can’t think what I make of it. The situation is a little tense,” he said. “And I hope that whoever he is gets caught.”

Few seemed to be out on the campus at the time of the shooting. One professor, standing feet from the police tape, said he came out of his office when he heard a commotion of sirens and saw *police lights.

At around midnight, a frantic scene was unfolding at Massachusetts General Hospital, where a dozen police cars arrived with sirens on and several women were brought in by police, looking deeply *upset.

Marcella Bombardieri, *Brian MacQuarrie, Martine Powers, Maria Sacchetti, and Milton J. Valencia of the Globe staff and correspondents Jeremy C. Fox, Haven Orecchio-Egresitz, Jaclyn Reiss, and Gal Tziperman Lotan contributed to this report.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/20...lOVeLr8PHLvDa99zK/story.html?s_campaign=sm_tw

 

[SlyPokerDog]

A Marathon bombing suspect is in custody

http://www.bostonglobe.com/

 

[oldmangrouch]

An obvious question springs to mind: if these were the Boston bombing suspects, why would they draw that kind of attention to themselves? What agenda could they have that would be advanced by shooting a random campus security guard?

 

[NOVoodoo]

Watching this on Fox News right now, because they've seemed to have the best coverage... there's a lot to wrap your head around with this one, but it seems like you've been beating the information from the news coverage with your online postings Sly. Thanks for that...

 

[MickZagger]

A 2nd suspect has been caught. Middle eastern. The other suspect is white and naked. According to CNN.

 

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An obvious question springs to mind: if these were the Boston bombing suspects, why would they draw that kind of attention to themselves? What agenda could they have that would be advanced by shooting a random campus security guard?

It wasn't a security guard, it was a police officer. And perhaps (we don't know) the officer was persuing them or was uncovering their gear or hideout.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Local Boston CBS station has live video of a suspect at gunpoint - http://boston.cbslocal.com/

 

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[OSUBlazerfan]

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

 

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https://twitter.com/mikemulugeta

 

[NOVoodoo]

Apparently the one suspect, Sunil Tripathi, had been a missing person who disappeared without a trace from Brown University. He was a philosophy major whose father was a rich software engineer...

 

[MickZagger]

Apparently he's a left wing marxist of Brahmin Indian descent.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Apparently he's a left wing marxist of Brahmin Indian descent.

and UPS temp worker.

 

[MickZagger]

Apparently the one suspect, Sunil Tripathi, had been a missing person who disappeared without a trace from Brown University. He was a philosophy major whose father was a rich software engineer...

Well they found him

 

[SlyPokerDog]

K9 Units deployed. 465 Arsenal Street

All officers no involved in static posts are to report to Arsenal.

 

[MickZagger]

The high school classmate of his that came forth with the resemblance:

 

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Pressure cooker found at watertown
reddit

 

[MickZagger]

Apparently, Sunny is missed....

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[SlyPokerDog]

The Boston Globe ‏@BostonGlobe 27s RT @shelleymurph: Source: One of suspects in Boston Marathon bombing captured in Watertown, second one on the run. #bostonmarathon