<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of the Boston Globe at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://tinyurl.com/bu2g5hu">http://tinyurl.com/bu2g5hu</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">--------------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: 'Miller Headline Bold', 'Times New Roman', Times, Georgia, serif; font-size: 4.6em; line-height: 1.04347826; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; ">One Boston Marathon bombing suspect killed, another at large</span></div><div><content><p></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">WATERTOWN — Police this morning are searching a 20-block area here for one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects after a violent night during which an MIT Police officer lost his life and a Transit Police officer was seriously wounded in a firefight. The other Boston Marathon bombing suspect, who was wearing a black hat in photos released Thursday evening, is dead after firing bullets and launching explosives at police.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis said the man now known as Marathon bombing Suspect #2, the man with the white baseball cap who actually dropped the bombs at the race finish line, is the person being sought by a massive collection of federal, state, and municipal police.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We believe this to be a terrorist,’’ Davis told reporters about 4:30 a.m. today. “We believe this to be a man here to kill people.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Police are warning residents in East Watertown to stay in their homes, and not to answer the door unless they see a uniformed police officer outside. They said drivers should not stop in the area roughly bounded by Dexter, Laurel, and Arsenal</span></p><div data-adname="CENTRAL" class="ad aside" data-adname-complete="true" style="text-align: -webkit-auto; margin: 0.5em -62px 1.5em 30px; padding: 0px; border-width: 1px 0px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; clear: both; display: inline; float: right; width: 311px; "><img alt="A combination of closeups of the two suspects in the Marathon bombings." data-fullsrc="//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_460w/Boston/2011-2020/2013/04/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/suspectcloseups0419.jpg" src="http://c.o0bg.com/rf/image_460w/Boston/2011-2020/2013/04/19/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/suspectcloseups0419.jpg" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; max-width: 100%; display: block; width: auto; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><iframe src="http://rmedia.boston.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream_sx.ads/www.bostonglobe.com/metro/massachusetts/article/@CENTRAL?rid=1751718018&status=loggedout" width="100%" height="260" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; max-width: 310px; min-height: 265px; "></iframe></span></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">The officer was pronounced dead at Massachusetts General Hospital.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to State Police Colonel Timothy Alben, the night’s outbreak of violence began about 10:30 p.m. police received reports of a robbery of a convenience store in Kendall Square near MIT. A few minutes later, an MIT police officer, who has not been identified, was shot multiple times while in his cruiser at Main and Vassar streets, near Building 32, better known as the renowned the Stata Center on the MIT campus.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A short time later, two men carjacked a Mercedes SUV at gunpoint, and the owner of that car was able to flee at a gas station on Memorial Drive. The SUV proceeded out Memorial Drive toward Watertown followed by a long train of police vehicles in pursuit.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At one point during the pursuit, the two suspects opened fire on Watertown police and a Transit Police officer, who was shot and who is now in critical condition at a Boston-area hospital this morning.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">During the gunfight, the man known as Marathon suspect #1 was wounded. He was taken into custody and later died at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Alben said.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Police have since been searching for the other bombing suspect.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">The night’s chaos began about six hours after law enforcement released images of suspects in Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings that left three people dead and 170 wounded. After responding to the shooting at MIT, police streamed to Watertown, sirens blaring.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There, the night was punctuated with gunfire and explosions.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Police warned that spectators were in danger. 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!”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Peter Jennings, 33, said he was sleeping just before 1 a.m. in his home on Prentiss Street when he was awakened by a huge boom.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“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.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said more than three dozen emergency vehicles were heading down Route 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.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I had a bad feeling because of what happened on Monday,” he said.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">John Antonucci’s 79-year-old mother called him hysterical from her home in Laurel Street. She heard about five gunshots and didn’t know what to do.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“She was saying they’re running down the street shooting,” Antonucci said, standing outside yellow police tape. “She was crying so hard I couldn’t understand what she was talking about.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So he told her: Stay inside the house.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Residents describe the neighborhood as safe and family oriented, where they leave doors and windows open, and feed stray cats.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Standing at Quimby Street and Nichols Avenue 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.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I was buying ice cream right there” -- Gaylord pointed to a structure a few steps away, behind the caution tape -- “just this afternoon.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“After this, I still feel safe on this street,” Gaylord said. “I mean, you just never know with these things.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Adam Healy, 31, said he stepped outside for a cigarette near one of the shooting scenes in Watertown, when he heard gunfire.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“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.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Imran Saif, a cab driver, was parking his car for the night near Dexter and School streets and was preparing to bike home to Cambridge when he heard a series of loud noises that he said “sounded like fireworks.” He said he biked toward the sounds, thinking they were fireworks, when people in nearby houses began waving him back, telling him it was gunfire.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“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.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan MacDonald, who lives on Bigelow Avenue and Mount Auburn Street, near Watertown Square, said he was watching TV and talking with his girlfriend when they began hearing sirens -- just a few at first, then more -- “maybe five or seven, racing at this point.” Then in the distance they heard gunshots, about 15, he said, within 10 seconds.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I kind of ran downstairs and came outside,” he said. “They were coming from the Arsenal Street area up Bigelow Avenue. There were about 10 cop cars, they took a left on Mount Auburn Street heading toward Galen Street.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The bedlam in Watertown was preceded by a spasm of violence in Kendall Square, in Cambridge.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At MIT earlier during this drama, the university issued an alert to students and faculty to remain inside, which was later lifted.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">An eerie quiet descended on the campus as teams of police officers combed the campus block by block. SWAT teams were present.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At MGH tonight, family members of the officer shot and killed declined to comment. About a dozen gathered outside the hospital’s emergency room, hugging and consoling one another through the night.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Siddhartha Varshney was walking home from dinner with two friends when they were stopped at the police cordon.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“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.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“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.”</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">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.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.125em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Early Friday, MIT issued a statement about the death of the officer. “MIT is heartbroken by the news that an MIT Police officer was shot and killed in the line of duty on Thursday night on campus. Our thoughts are now with the family.”</span></p></content></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">--------------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>