Federal agents swarmed neighboring Watertown
after local police were involved in a car chase and shootout with at least one
of the suspects. During the pursuit, officers could be heard on police radio
traffic describing the suspects as having grenades and other explosives.
At approximately 10:30 p.m. Thursday, a robbery
was reported at a 7-Eleven in Cambridge, Davis said. An MIT officer responding
to the robbery was shot, and later pronounced dead. The suspects fled in a
stolen Mercedes-Benz. Watertown Police spotted car and shots were fired between
police and the suspects.
One suspect was shot by police and later died,
but the second fled on foot, and a tense manhunt ensued.
"We believe this to be a terrorist,"
Davis told reporters at a hastily arranged press conference in Watertown.
"We believe this to be a man who has come here to kill people. We need to
get him into custody."
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See video and more pictures after the cut...
An MTA officer was seriously wounded during the exchange of gunfire, Davis said.
The FBI has yet to publicly confirm a connection
between the events in Watertown and the twin explosions that killed 3 people
and injured 170 others at the Boston Marathon on Monday. But according to
Boston Police, the suspect who remained at large—a.k.a Suspect Two—was the
"one in the white hat" seen in the photos released by the bureau on
Thursday.
In a radio alert sent issued to fellow officers,
the suspect was described as a "white male with dark complexion or a
Middle Eastern male with thick curly hair wearing a charcoal gray hooded
sweatshirt ... possibly with an assault rifle and explosives." Police in
Watertown, Newton, Brighton and Cambridge were put on high alert as the suspect
was said to be armed with a "long gun."
"We are aware of the law enforcement
activity in the greater Boston area," Boston FBI spokesman Greg Comcowich
said in a statement to Yahoo News. "The situation is ongoing. We are
working with local authorities to determine what happened."
Source: Yahoo News
Source: Yahoo News
Btw i so like American Police! More updates coming ...
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