Friday, April 19, 2013

BOSTON - One Marathon Bombing Suspect Dead, One Still on the Run

"One Boston Marathon Suspect Dead, One on the Run; Boston on Lockdown" by News Desk, PBS Newshour 4/19/2013

Updated, 12:06 p.m. ET:  The uncle of Dzhozkar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bombing suspect still at large, has urged his nephew to turn himself in.  Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Md., spoke to reporters from his driveway Friday.

"Dzhokhar, if you are alive, turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness,"  Tsarni said.

Tsarni said that Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed overnight, were born in Kyrgyzstan.  NPR's Pam Fessler reported that the two suspects are ethnic Chechens from Kyrgyzstan.  The suspect's aunt told @NPRNews that their family was deported to Kyrgyzstan in the early 1990s from Chechnya.

Tsarni said he hasn't seen them since December 2005 and did not know of any possible involvement in terrorist groups or whether either had any paramilitary training.  He added that his family is ashamed and that he loves and respects the United States.

Updated 11:43 a.m. ET:  The name and a photo of the MIT police officer killed Thursday night have been released.  Authorities say 26-year-old Sean Collier was shot and killed by the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.  MIT says Collier was a Wilmington native and Somerville resident who had worked at MIT since January 2012.  Before that, he was a civilian employee of the Somerville Police Department.  Collier was found shot several times in his vehicle at about 10:30 p.m. Thursday.




Need I say, considering the above article much in the below video is an understatement.

"FBI Releases Photos of Boston Blast Suspects, Asks for Help From Public" PBS Newshour 4/18/2013

Excerpt

SUMMARY:  The FBI released pictures and video of two suspects who may have planted a device at the site of the explosion near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.  Jeffrey Brown talks with David Boeri of WBUR Public Radio about how investigators have combed through thousands of tips so far.

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