Friday, April 19, 2013

Boston Bombing Suspect Killed in Shootout; Boston in Lock-down



From the WSJ: U.S. authorities on Friday locked down the Boston area in the hunt for one of two brothers of Chechen background suspected in Monday's Boston Marathon bombings.

Authorities identified one suspect as 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed in a confrontation with police in Watertown, Mass., according to a U.S. law-enforcement official.

A manhunt was on for the second suspect, identified as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19 years old. Both Chechnyan Muslim brothers were believed to be involved in the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus police officer during a chaotic series of events Thursday night….

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