Gunshots heard on Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus -school website

[Zimbow]

Reuters – 7 mins ago

(Reuters) - Gunshots were heard near a building on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, the school said on its website on Thursday.

The shots "were reported near Building 32 ... which is currently surrounded by responding agencies," according to a statement on the MIT website for emergency information.

Representatives for local police agencies could not immediately be reached for comment.

(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Stacey Joyce)

http://news.yahoo.com/gunshots-heard...032912007.html

UPDATED - Reuters – 31 mins ago

(Reuters) - A police officer for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was shot to death on Thursday night at the school's Cambridge campus, authorities said, adding no suspects were in custody.

MIT police were investigating the shooting and had issued a campus-wide emergency alert. Massachusetts State Police and Cambridge police said they were assisting in the investigation.

The shots "were reported near Building 32 ... which is currently surrounded by responding agencies," MIT said in an emergency statement warning students to "stay indoors and away from the area."

"Responding agencies continue to investigate the situation," MIT said on its website. "Police are sweeping the campus at this time, please continue to stay indoors and remain inside until further notice."

MIT police representatives could not be reached immediately for comment.

(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles, David Bailey in Minnesota and Kevin Gray in Miami; Editing by Kevin Gray and Peter Cooney)

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/business...?date=20220323

[JustAlex]

I thought armed guards was the solution to these school shootings?

Wasn't that what the NRA said?

Yeah, OK.

[Zimbow]

One Boston Marathon bombing suspect killed, another at large

By Wesley Lowery, Akilah Johnson, Eric Moskowitz and Lisa Wangsness
| Globe Staff April 19, 2013


http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/201...9zK/story.html

[shrewsbury]

alex an armed guard is not gong to stop a crazed terrorists in most cases, their training is very limited, this poor guy stepped into something way bigger than he could handle and has lost his life.

[mrveggieman]

Here's the latest update to the case:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/19...on-mit-campus/

I hope if this guy is caught alive his tourted in the most brutal way possible if he is dead he died a slow painful death.

[Wickabee]

http://www.castanet.net/edition/news...9-5-.htm#90669http://www.castanet.net/edition/news...9-5-.htm#90669

1 Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect Dead
The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing killed an MIT police officer and hurled explosives at police in a car chase and gun battle overnight that left one of them dead and his brother on the loose, authorities said Friday as thousands of officers swarmed the streets in a manhunt that all but paralyzed the Boston area. The suspects were identified by law enforcement officials and a family member as Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, brothers from a Russian region near Chechnya, which has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency that has carried out deadly bombings. They lived near Boston and had been in the U.S. for about a decade, an uncle said.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a 26-year-old who had been known to the FBI as Suspect No. 1 and was seen in surveillance footage in a black baseball cap, was killed overnight, officials said. His 19-year-old brother, dubbed Suspect No. 2 and seen wearing a white, backward baseball cap in the images from Monday's deadly bombing at the marathon finish line, escaped.
The law enforcement officials spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the unfolding case.
Authorities in Boston suspended all mass transit and warned close to 1 million people in the entire city and some of its suburbs to stay indoors as the hunt went on. Businesses were asked not to open. People waiting at bus and subway stops were told to go home.
"We believe this man to be a terrorist," said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis. "We believe this to be a man who's come here to kill people."
The bombings on Monday killed three people and wounded more than 180 others, tearing off limbs in a spray of shrapnel and instantly raising the spectre of another terrorist attack on U.S. soil.
The endgame, at least for Suspect No. 1, came just hours after the FBI released photos and video of the two young men at the finish line and appealed to the public for help in identifying and capturing them. Tips came pouring in to the FBI immediately, but exactly how authorities managed to close in on the two was not immediately disclosed.
The men's uncle, Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Md., told The Associated Press that the men travelled here together from the Russian region near Chechnya.
Their father, Anzor Tsarnaev, said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from the Russian city of Makhachkala that his younger son, Dzhokhar, is "a true angel."
"Dzhokhar is a second-year medical student in the U.S. He is such an intelligent boy. We expected him to come on holidays here," the father said.
The White House said President Barack Obama was being briefed on developments overnight by Lisa Monaco, his assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism.
The images released by the FBI depict the two young men walking one behind the other near the finish line. Richard DesLauriers, FBI agent in charge in Boston, said Suspect No. 2 in the white hat was seen setting down a bag at the site of the second of two deadly explosions.
Authorities said surveillance tape recorded late Thursday showed Suspect No. 2 during a robbery of a convenience store in Cambridge, near the campus of MIT, where a university police officer was shot to death while responding to a report of a disturbance, said State Police Col Timothy Alben.
From there, authorities said, the two men carjacked a man in a Mercedes-Benz, keeping him with them in the car for half an hour before releasing him at a gas station in Cambridge. The man was not injured.
The search for the vehicle led to a chase that ended in Watertown, where authorities said the suspects threw explosive devices from the car and exchanged gunfire with police. A transit police officer was seriously injured during the chase, authorities said.
In Watertown, witnesses reported hearing multiple gunshots and explosions at about 1 a.m. Friday. Dozens of police officers and FBI agents were in the neighbourhood and a helicopter circled overhead.
Watertown resident Christine Yajko said she was awakened at about 1:30 a.m. by a loud noise, began to walk to her kitchen and heard gunfire.
"I heard the explosion, so I stepped back from that area, then I went back out and heard a second one," she said. "It was very loud. It shook the house a little."
She said a police officer later knocked on her door and told her there was an undetonated improvised explosive device in the street and warned her to stay away from the windows.
"It was on the street, right near our kitchen window," she said.
State police spokesman David Procopio said: "The incident in Watertown did involve what we believe to be explosive devices possibly, potentially, being used against the police officers."
Boston cab driver Imran Saif said he was standing on a street corner at a police barricade across from a diner when he heard an explosion.
"I heard a loud boom and then a rapid succession of pop, pop, pop," he said. "It sounded like automatic weapons. And then I heard the second explosion."
He said he could smell something burning and advanced to check it out but area residents at their windows yelled at him, "Hey, it's gunfire! Don't go that way!"
Doctors at a Boston hospital where Suspect No. 1 died said they treated a man with a possible blast injury and multiple gunshot wounds.

[shrewsbury]

veggie, you seem to be in the torture mood lately

[habsheaven]

veggie, you seem to be in the torture mood lately

Lol, it's to the point now that it goes without saying. We know every thread he is going to say it in.

[mrveggieman]

Ya'll can think this is funny all you want but these monsters killed someone's child. If it were your family member you would want to killers to die a slow painful death as well.

[Wickabee]

Ya'll can think this is funny all you want but these monsters killed someone's child. If it were your family member you would want to killers to die a slow painful death as well.

Nope. Just die. No need to waste time and energy on someone who's already a waste of skin and breath.
Doesn't make me feel better to see any human suffer, no matter what they've done. If your ultimately want them to die, just kill them and be done with it. What you speak of is legal, socially condoned psychosis. Anyone who wants to see anyone suffer is sick.

In short, no one thinks this is funny. They think you're funny. I'm sad for you, myself.