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This is all surreal. People across social media are sharing pictures all across Boston of how empty and quiet the streets and neighborhoods are.
Never quite seen anything like this. I'm amazed at how well the whole area is working together.
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Geeze ... barely keeping up with this story. Heard about the MIT shooting last night, and someone openly wondering if it was related to the bombers ... and now all this. Here's a story to help people catch up with all these events: http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/19/us/boston-area-violence/index.html?hpt=hp_t1(CNN) -- One suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings is dead. The other -- his brother- - was on the run Friday, pursued by an army of police whose manhunt virtually shut down the city.
A man identified by several sources as Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died after an overnight shootout with police. He's the man described Thursday by the FBI as black-capped Suspect No. 1 in the attacks Monday that killed three. His brother, Dzhokar Tsarnaev, apparently escaped -- leading police to throw a huge dragnet around the region.
Developments moved quickly:
-- Connecticut authorities said a gray Honda CR-V with Massachusetts license plates had been recovered in the Boston area. An earlier alert said the vehicle "could possibly be occupied" by the surviving suspect. Meanwhile, heavily armed police swarmed over a Watertown, Massachusetts, neighborhood looking for the man, identified by Boston police as Dzhokar Tsarnaev, 19.
-- Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was wearing explosives and a triggering device when he died, a source briefed on the investigation told CNN's Deborah Feyerick.
-- A Maryland man who said he was the suspects' uncle told CNN affiliate WBZ that Tamerlan Tsarnaev "got what he deserved." "What can I say for people who have been murdered? Sympathy," Ruslan Tsarni said. But a former teacher at the high school Dzhokar Tsarnaev attended, who lives near Tsarnaev's residence now, described the younger brother as "a wonderful kid" who seemed incapable of such violence.
-- According to a source briefed on the investigation, the brothers came from the Russian Caucasus and had moved to Kazakhstan at a young age before coming to the United States several years ago.
Suspect's friend: 'Doesn't make sense' Witness: We heard explosions, gunshots Armed police sweep Boston homes Deadly shooting at MIT
-- Police ordered businesses in the suburb of Watertown and nearby communities to stay closed and told residents to stay inside and answer the door for no one but authorities. Boston authorities advised the same. The city's subway, bus, Amtrak train systems and Greyhound and Bolt Bus -- a regional carrier -- have been shut down. Taxi service across the city also was suspended for time during the manhunt. Every Boston area school is closed.
--The search followed a violent night in which authorities say the men allegedly hurled explosives at pursuers after killing Massachusetts Institute of Technology police Officer Sean Collier, robbing a convenience store and hijacking a car.
Police warned Watertown residents to lock their homes and stay away from their windows and doors.
"It's jarring," said CNN Belief blog writer Danielle Tumminio, who lives in Watertown.
Oluwaseun Odewale, who lives in Arlington, described his neighborhood as "deathly quiet."
"All my doors are double-locked. It's silent all around, there are no usual sounds of cars, nothing," he said.
Boston's public transit authority sent city buses to Watertown to evacuate residents while bomb experts combed the surroundings for possible explosives.
Police officers in full body armor, carrying automatic weapons, flooded the area, traveling the streets in convoys and going door-to-door to track the suspect down.
Massachusetts State Police spokesman Col. Timothy Alben asked residents for patience.
"We need more time," he said. "We're making significant progress up there. But it may take hours to do this."
"This situation is grave," Alben said earlier. "This is a very serious situation that we are dealing with."
Violent night
The violence began late Thursday with the robbery of a 7/11 convenience store, according to Alben. Soon after, in Cambridge, across the Charles River from Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier was fatally shot while he sat in his car, the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said in statement. Police believe the bombing suspects were responsible for the shooting.
The two suspects, according to authorities, then hijacked a car at gunpoint in Cambridge. They released the driver a half-hour later at a gas station.
As police picked up the chase, the car's occupants threw explosives out the windows and shot at officers, according to the district attorney's office.
Officers fired back, wounding Tamerlan Tsarnaev. He later died at Beth Israel Hospital. A source briefed on the investigation says Tsarnaev was wearing explosives and an explosive trigger when his body was recovered. His brother apparently escaped on foot.
Richard H. Donohue Jr., 33, a three-year veteran of the transit system police force, was shot and wounded in the incident and taken to a hospital, a transit police spokesman said Friday. The officer's condition was not immediately known.
Details about the suspects
Police believe the brothers are the same men pictured in images released Thursday by the FBI as suspects in the marathon bombing that killed three people Monday.
The men are shown in the images walking together near the marathon finish line.
The first suspect -- apparently Tamerlan Tsarnaev, according to authorities -- appears in the images wearing a dark hat, sunglasses and a backpack. The second suspect, wearing a white cap, is the one who remains at large, police said.
The men moved to the United States at least a few years ago, according to sources.
A statement from the office of Chechnya's president echoed that: "According to preliminary information, coming from the relevant agencies, the Tsarnaev family moved many years ago out of Chechnya to another Russian region," press secretary Alvi Kamirov told Russia's semi-official Interfax news agency. "After that they lived for some time in Kazakhstan, and from there went to the U.S. where the family members received a residence permit. Therefore the individuals concerned did not live as adults in Chechnya."
Tamerlan Tsarnaev had studied at Bunker Hill Community College and wanted to become an engineer, the source said. He then took a year off to train as a boxer.
The source said that a posting on a social media site in his name included the comments: "I don't have a single American friend. I don't understand them."
Dzhokar Tsarnaev attended Cambridge Rindge & Latin, a public high school, said Eric Mercado, who graduated a year behind the suspect. Mercado said Tsarnaev had worked at Harvard University as a lifeguard.
"We hung out; we partied; we were good high school friends," Mercado told CNN.
"We're all, like, in shock. We don't really understand. There were no telltale signs of any kind of malicious behavior from Dzhokar. It's all coming as a shock, really."
Mercado said he lived a block away from the suspect and did not know his older brother.
Larry Aaronson, Dzhokar Tsarnaev's neighbor and a former teacher at the high school Tsarnaev attended, called him a "wonderful kid."
"He was so grateful to be here, he was compassionate, he was caring, he was jovial," Aaronson told CNN.
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There was an NBC report that the one who got his citizenship got it on 9/11.
That kinda sounds too weird to be true.
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There is a picture of the 8 year old that was killed, the bomb and the bomber.
Really sick to look at.
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Found out this morning that I have a "distant" connection to two of the injured runners in the Marathon.
I was visiting Boston with my wife a few years ago. My partner sent a limo to pick us up so that we could all go to dinner. My partner uses the same limo driver all the time.
Two of the injured were his nephews. Both had their legs blown off.. At last conversation, both were still alive, but it's kinda touch and go with them
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Feds think this guy might have a bomb strapped to him.
I don't know know if we have any Boston dawgs here, but I do have friends in Boston, and here in Chicago that are from Boston.
I am pulling for everyone, this thing is so scary.
Everyone there that I have talked to says they can't believe this is happening. Like a really really bad dream.
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I wish to wash my Irish wristwatch......
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I don't know know if we have any Boston dawgs here, but I do have friends in Boston, and here in Chicago that are from Boston.
I am pulling for everyone, this thing is so scary.
Everyone there that I have talked to says they can't believe this is happening. Like a really really bad dream.
The Onion, while comical to me, often hits the nail directly on the head.
I believe there was a headline on there to the effect of "This what world like from now on"
I am unfamiliar with this feeling of optimism
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I'll bet there are a lot of gun haters wishing they had a 9mm on their nightstand in Boston right now. Maniac on the loose in the area? Man, I'd be keeping a gun close to hand. Hope they put this guy down quick before he hurts anyone else.
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It's a very real possibility, no? Picture yourself, living in the area that is under lockdown. Would you feel better having a gun, or having a phone? If someone knocks on your door that isn't in a police uniform, what would you grab first, gun, or phone.
I don't know about you, and I certainly won't judge any decision you would make as being good or bad. However, if I lived there, knowing that this guy (believing anyway) set bombs to kill people, his brother had explosives attached to his body, they killed a cop just sitting in his car.............myself, I'd want a gun. The cops can come take a report. That's what they do. Would you want the cops report to say you died, or he died? It'll all be in the report, which report would you prefer?
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Really?
Or, maybe you are in favor of having background checks for purchases of pressure cookers? Or perhaps you would like background checks, in depth background checks, for people that purchase backpacks?
Certainly those checks, if we just had them, would've prevented this bombing, right?
I say that only partly in jest.
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It's a very real possibility, no? Picture yourself, living in the area that is under lockdown. Would you feel better having a gun, or having a phone? If someone knocks on your door that isn't in a police uniform, what would you grab first, gun, or phone.
I don't know about you, and I certainly won't judge any decision you would make as being good or bad. However, if I lived there, knowing that this guy (believing anyway) set bombs to kill people, his brother had explosives attached to his body, they killed a cop just sitting in his car.............myself, I'd want a gun. The cops can come take a report. That's what they do. Would you want the cops report to say you died, or he died? It'll all be in the report, which report would you prefer?
No, but the good news is, you can have one if you want and I'm happy for you... 
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I know if I was living in an area and something like that was going on, there would be at least one loaded firearm within reach at all times.
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Yep.
I've been debating getting firearms. Not debating the moral part of it, I've always been pro guns but debating if I thought I personally needed one.
I've found myself over the past year coming to the realization it's better to have them and not need them than to need them and not have them.
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.. " I've found myself over the past year coming to the realization it's better to have them and not need them than to need them and not have them..."
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I don't know how anybody would deny feeling safer knowing they had a self defense weapon in their home with a homicidal criminal running loose in their neighborhood.
Pro-guns/Anti-guns - if you feel your life may be in eminent danger, wouldn't you want the means to protect yourself?
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CNN reporting...shots fired in Watertown...
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Something just went down.. wonder if they got him.
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They have him cornered and are shooting gas at him per CNN.
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Per FOX News the Boston Police are sending a robotic device where the 2nd suspect is and will be checking to see if there are any bombs in that area.
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Doesn't look like they got him alive.
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If you give me the option of a 9mm or a SWAT team on my block, I'll take the SWAT team. Also, I love that Newtown was not the time for the gun control debate, a bombing apparently makes it okay... 
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CNN is now reporting the older brother was questioned by the govt in 2011 at the request of another foreign govt due to ties to an extremist group.
This is all rather intense. They better capture this guy alive.
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Not happening. I'd bet a good deal on it.
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I'm beginning to think he's been dead all this time and they haven't found him yet.
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Isn't it obvious?
If you're pro-guns, after Newton wasn't the time, but now is.
If you're anti-guns, after Newton was the time, now isn't.
Why? Because Newton gave anti-gun people a lot of good arguments.
Now gives pro-gun people a lot of good arguments.
Truthfully, neither incident should be used just to promote an agenda.
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Spoke too soon.
Fox News is reporting he is alive.
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Spoke too soon.
Fox News is reporting he is alive.
Damn...beat me to it.
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I saw they have dogs. I was wondering why they didnt have dogs last night to send after him.
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Just the other night at my place in roanoke,VA a helicopter was hovering over and near the house for about an hour. Turned on my iPad police scanner to see if it was police looking for someone - sure enough it was. Got my 9mm out of the lock box - I slept well knowing it was on the night stand next to me.
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Earlier reports said he might be wearing a bomb vest ... its possible he's down but still dangerous. I hope they don't waste any dogs' lives on this POS.
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Looks like we're in for a long standoff.
This is just me thinking out lout.
They say he's in the boat, refusing to come out.
My guess is he's got a bomb, and he's trying to make the authorities approach him so he can take some people out with him.
And obviously the authorities are going to be on that, so we're in for a pretty long standoff, I think.
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Too bad we can't put a SWAT team on every block. Like the saying goes, "when seconds matter, the police are minutes away".
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Thanks everyone for keeping us still at work up to date. You're much faster than the news websites. Please keep it coming...
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The boat was searched earlier today and they didn't find anything.
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The owner was quoted as saying the shed door was open and she could see blood. Maybe he was in the shed or somewhere and he moved to that boat later. Just speculation.
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Maybe, but I assumed if they're going to search the boat, they would have checked the shed, too lol.
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Donno if this site will work at work ... but there's a live news feed and video:
http://news.yahoo.com/control-room/?vp=1
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