One Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect Dead, Other At Large After Shootout With Police 1109
theodp writes "During the night, The Tech broke news that gunshots were reported at MIT near 32 Vassar Street (the Ray and Maria Stata Center for Computer, Information, and Intelligence Sciences), and one officer was shot and taken to Mass General Hospital. MIT's Emergency Information page also reports that injuries have been reported. Sadly, CNN is now reporting that the university police officer has died. Look for updates on Twitter."
The two suspects identified earlier as being behind the Boston Marathon bombings are believed to be responsible for this. They were found by police. One suspect, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed in a shootout. The other suspect, 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is still being pursued. The Associated Press reports that the two are believed to be from the Russian region near Chechnya. During the firefight, the suspects threw explosive devices at police. Public transit in Boston has been shut down, and hundreds of thousands of people have been asked to not leave their homes. Here are live feed for local TV news and emergency services audio. Police have been warned that the remaining suspect may have a suicide vest.
Reader Okian Warrior points out a related story worthy of notice: "The 4chan crowd, poring over images of the Boston marathon, identified two dark-skinned and bag-carrying suspects (among others). This was then picked up by The New York Post, who ran the image on Thursday's front page with the headline 'Feds seek these two pictured at Boston Marathon.' And now, a completely innocent teen now finds himself scared to leave his home."
Reader Okian Warrior points out a related story worthy of notice: "The 4chan crowd, poring over images of the Boston marathon, identified two dark-skinned and bag-carrying suspects (among others). This was then picked up by The New York Post, who ran the image on Thursday's front page with the headline 'Feds seek these two pictured at Boston Marathon.' And now, a completely innocent teen now finds himself scared to leave his home."
Re:Holy crap! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:One Suspect Dead (Score:5, Funny)
A brilliant plan with only two drawbacks. One, they didn't have any anaesthetic bullets. Two, there isn't such a thing as anaesthetic bullets.
Re:infowars.com (Score:5, Funny)
clearly you don't know how conspiracy theories work.
the fact that they weren't wearing illuminati sigils proves that it was the stone masons pretending to be illuminati to hide the fact that there were martians disguised as humans running in the marathon.
Re:News for nerds? (Score:3, Funny)
Besides, the police said to not leave your home. A huge number of Redditors and Slashdotters won't be affected by this story at all.
Sexist!!!!!!!!!! (Score:5, Funny)
Why is it always MALES??
I mean, why can't we get more WOMEN into terrorism? We can't seem to get them interested in Engineering, and now it seems we need more equal opportunity for terrorism.
What can be done about this? Sheesh, will the sexism never end for us??
neither is "Ayn Rand" (Score:5, Funny)
"couldn't they use some kind of anaesthetic bullets?"
BATMAN ISN'T REAL.
Re:One Suspect Dead (Score:5, Funny)
"You fool! I asked for general anesthetic bullets, not local. Now they're unstoppable!
Re:Sexist!!!!!!!!!! (Score:1, Funny)
Deliberately blowing up Tits is a crime against nature.
Re:Terrorist or freedom fighter? (Score:2, Funny)
I said on a few occasions that this had to do with the marathon, not with the date. If the marathon took place a day later or a day earlier, that's when the bombs would have gone off.
You're saying "They hate our marathon runners!"?
Same is here, this is profiling and it works.
If profiling works, then you should be closely watched yourself. Right wing extremists being one of the notable terrorist groups.
Re:One Suspect Dead (Score:5, Funny)
The closest possible device would be tranquilizer darts, which are usually fired from shotguns. They aren't very accurate, so you have to get pretty close. Plus, they take a while to work. Sometimes minutes.
Every tranq dart I've seen fired hits it's target, in the neck on the first shot, and the target either faints immediately, or gets drowsy and is down in at least ten seconds. Where'd you get your information? Not Hollywood? ppphhhffff!
Re:Gotta Love 4chan (Score:5, Funny)
Let's see: these guys went to MIT.
MIT has Fraternities
There were Fraternaties in the movie Animal House, in which Kevin Bacon had a role.
Kevin Bacon's last name is the same as a popular pork based breakfast food.
Pork is an unclean animal and not allowed in Islamic culture.
Al Qauida is an Islamic terror group.
=> these guys are linked to Al Qauida (let lose the drones of war)