Dead suspect identified as Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26; the one still being sought is ID'd as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, age 19. http://t.co/qFpywu2cIG"
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BOSTON IN LOCKDOWN
One bomb suspect killed in shootout; second on run
Police swarm through Boston trying to track down "suspect number 2,"
warning he is believed to be armed. They identify an officer killed
during the manhunt.
BOSTON BOMBING SUSPECTS
- FBI: Help us ID suspects
- What we know
- 2 suspects 'acted differently'
- See video of the suspects
- 'You just watch things more closely'
- Witness photos
| Victim's fear
Boston police confirm bombing suspect at centre of manhunt is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19.
April 19, 2013 -- Updated 1319 GMT (2119 HKT)
Witness: We heard explosions, gunshots
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- NEW: Suspects came to the U.S. several years ago, source tells CNN
- NEW: Most of Boston is on virtual lockdown as authorities hunt one suspect
- NEW: Search, restrictions, could last "hours" police official says
- Events unfold after chase in which one marathon bombing suspect was shot dead
The manhunt effectively shut down a large portion of the nation's fifth-largest metro area.
Developments moved quickly:
-- Police swarmed over a
Watertown, Massachusetts, neighborhood looking for the surviving
suspect, identified by Boston police as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, age 19.
-- Several sources told
CNN that the dead suspect was Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26. According to a
source briefed on the investigation, the suspects are originally from
the Russian Caucasus and had moved to Kazakhstan at a young age before
coming to the United States several years ago.
Police: 1 suspect dead, 1 on the run
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 and Amtrak train systems have been shut down. Taxi service across
the city was suspended. 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 a university police officer,
robbing a convenience store and hijacking a car.
"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 warned Watertown residents to lock their homes and stay away from their windows and doors.
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."
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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, a Massachusetts
Institute of Technology police officer 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 one of the men, possibly the person identified by the FBI as
suspect No. 1, who is seen in the images released Thursday in a dark
cap, sunglasses and wearing a black backpack.
The man died at Beth
Israel Hospital. He had bullet wounds and injuries from an explosion,
according to officials. The second man 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.
CNN photographer Gabe Ramirez arrived in Watertown as the chase ended.
"Police were in a
standoff with the vehicle just down the hill," Ramirez said. They
ordered one suspect out and commanded him to strip down completely naked
before putting him in a patrol car, which did not leave the scene.
The man was later released and is not a suspect in the case.
But while the man was
being held, FBI agents approached the squad car, and police ordered the
man back out of the car. FBI agents questioned him -- still fully
undressed -- on the sidewalk.
In an early phase of the
lockdown, a man could be seen lying face down on the street with his
hands outstretched in front of him and his legs crossed. It is unclear
whether this was the man who was arrested and ordered to undress.
Details about the suspects
The men moved to the United States at least a few years ago, according to sources.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the
older brother, 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 told CNN's
Deborah Feyerick 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."
The source added that it should not be assumed that either brother was radicalized because of their Chechen origins.
CNN's Terence Burke, Dave Alsup, Carma
Hassan, Jake Tapper, Drew Griffin, Steve Almasy and Chandler Friedman
contributed to this report.
BOSTON BOMBING
- FBI: Help us ID suspects
- People of Boston 'will not submit'
- 2 suspects 'acted differently'
- See video of the suspects
- 'You just watch things more closely'
- Witness photos
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