Explosions at the Boston Marathon

[Deltaphoenix]

UHH.....Holy shit...from an article...

Key moments related to the search for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, based on reports from the Middlesex County district attorney, Massachusetts State Police and Boston police.

— At 5:10 p.m. Thursday, investigators of the bombings release photographs and video of two suspects. They ask for the public's help in identifying the men.

— Around 10:20 p.m., shots are fired on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, just outside Boston.

— At 10:30 p.m., an MIT campus police officer who was responding to a disturbance is found shot multiple times in his vehicle, apparently in a confrontation with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects. He is later pronounced dead.

— Shortly afterward, two armed men reportedly carjack a Mercedes SUV in Cambridge. A man who was in the vehicle is held for about a half hour and then released unharmed at a gas station on Memorial Drive in Cambridge.

— Police soon pursue the carjacked vehicle in Watertown, just west of Cambridge.

— Some kind of explosive devices are thrown from the vehicle in an apparent attempt to stop police. The carjackers and police exchange gunfire. A transit police officer is seriously injured. One suspect, later identified as Suspect No. 1 in the marathon bombings, is critically injured and later pronounced dead.

— Authorities launch a manhunt for the other suspect.

— Around 1 a.m. Friday, gunshots and explosions are heard in Watertown. Dozens of police officers and FBI agents converge on a Watertown neighborhood. A helicopter circles overhead.

— Around 4:30 a.m., Massachusetts state and Boston police hold a short outdoor news briefing. They tell people living in that section of eastern Watertown to stay in their homes. They identify the carjackers as the same men suspected in the marathon bombings. Overnight, police also release a photograph of a man believed to be Suspect No. 2, apparently taken from store video earlier in the evening at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Cambridge. He is wearing a gray hoodie-style sweatshirt.

— Around 5:50 a.m. authorities urge residents in Watertown, Newton, Waltham, Belmont, Cambridge, Arlington and the Allston-Brighton neighborhoods of Boston to stay indoors. All mass transit is shut down.

— Around 6:35 a.m., The Associated Press reports that the bomb suspects are from a Russian region near Chechnya and lived in the United States for at least a year.

— Around 6:45 a.m., The Associated Press identifies the surviving Boston bomb suspect as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, who has been living in Cambridge.

— Around 8 a.m. Boston's police commissioner says all of Boston must stay in their homes as the search for the surviving suspect in the bombings continues.

— Around 8:40 a.m., a U.S. law enforcement official and the uncle of the suspects confirm that the name of the slain suspect is Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's older brother.

[D.o.S.]

Yeah dude, shit's going down.

I was tentatively moving to Cambridge next month, too. But that's gotten all fucked up.

[dubkitty]

well, what's the likelihood of another pair of Chechen bombers showing up in your neighborhood?

[jrmy]

Yeah. Helluva way to wake up this morning, even from 60 miles away. The entire Boston area is on lockdown - this article shows typically busy streets completely empty:

http://www.businessinsider.com/eerie-ph ... own-2013-4

[D.o.S.]

It's way more mundane stuff, actually. Like getting a hold of the dude to sign the lease, making sure all my Boston based friends and homies are still in a position to move, trying to find employment while I'm down there, so on.

[jrmy]

It's way more mundane stuff, actually. Like getting a hold of the dude to sign the lease, making sure all my Boston based friends and homies are still in a position to move, trying to find employment while I'm down there, so on.

On a pleasantly mundane note, how long you planning on being in the area?

[D.o.S.]

It's looking like May-September for now.

[jrmy]

It's looking like May-September for now.

Nice. Well, it'll certainly make getting together for beers & shows easier!

[D.o.S.]

Yussss. Several Boston-based internet homies I'd like to meet in real life, for sure.

This whole thing is going down in what was my backyard for seven or eight months--we lived on Walden Street. It's pretty surreal.

[D.o.S.]

just got a text from those dudes "I was up all night on the porch listening to assault rifle firefights and grenades. SWAT and the FBI are arresting people on the street. Our neighbors have ironing boards on the windows. etc." Glad I ran to the hills, as it were.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysGdhiyjMNg[/youtube]

[bigchiefbc]

So yeah, HOLY SHIT

The suspect brothers lived one FUCKING block from my best friend in Cambridge. We walked right by that damned house on Wednesday night to go get beer.

The shootout between the suspects and the police in Watertown was right next to one of our main bars that we always go to (Donahue's).

And that's in addition to the 3 friends of mine who were running in the marathon and were less than a half-mile away from the bombs.

I have had e-FUCKIGN-nough of this week. FUCK this week.

[D.o.S.]

Pretty much. I realize that this is not, in the grand scheme of the world, a particularly unique phenomenon, but this is pretty gnar.

[bigchiefbc]

So yeah, HOLY SHIT

The suspect brothers lived one FUCKING block from my best friend in Cambridge. We walked right by that damned house on Wednesday night to go get beer.

The shootout between the suspects and the police in Watertown was right next to one of our main bars that we always go to (Donahue's).

And that's in addition to the 3 friends of mine who were running in the marathon and were less than a half-mile away from the bombs.

I have had e-FUCKIGN-nough of this week. FUCK this week.

Oh yeah, and on top of all that, I blew out a tire on my car, and came home from work to a kitchen full of water yesterday (the water line that feeds my fridge sprung a leak).

[LOCOPELAND]

This shit is fuckin' wild. Glad all you cats over that way are safe and sound.

[Quiet Things]

Yeah. Helluva way to wake up this morning, even from 60 miles away. The entire Boston area is on lockdown - this article shows typically busy streets completely empty:

http://www.businessinsider.com/eerie-ph ... own-2013-4

I haven't been to Boston in a few years, but a lot of those images resonate with me in a weird way, because I remember how fucking PACKED everything was, all the time. And to see it all deserted...so goddamn unreal.

I wish people would just stop blowing each other up.