Crime & Safety

Boston Bombing Suspect In Custody

The 'second suspect' in the Boston Marathon bombing is in police custody. He had been surrounded in a boat sitting in a Watertown backyard.

Police have the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing in custody after a stand-off in a Watertown backyard.

Elsewhere tonight, three people have been taken into custody in New Bedford as part of the terror investigation.

Watertown residents, just after the day-long "shelter in place" order had been lifted, were again asked to stay indoors as shots were fired in the area. 

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A resident reported a guy had crawled under a boat and police and SWAT officers moved in on the location. About a dozen shots were fired in the vicinity.

Investigators spent much of Friday searching for the second suspect in Watertown following a chaotic night that left the first suspect dead.

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The Associated Press is reporting the surviving Boston bomb suspect is identified as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge.

"We believe this man to be a terrorist," Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said at a post-4 a.m. press conference about the at large suspect. "We believe this to be a man who's come here to kill people. We need to get him in custody."

An MBTA Transit Police Officer was shot during the overnight manhunt through Cambridge and Watertown.

Richard (Dic) H. Donohue Jr., 33, is in surgery now at Mt. Auburn Hospital, according to a police spokesman just after 8 a.m.

The suspect is considered armed and dangerous.

Here are links to some of the most recent articles on Patch sites in the Boston area that will give you up-to-date information:

http://watertown.patch.com/articles/mit-officer-killed-in-campus-shooting

http://watertown.patch.com/articles/watertown-police-stay-in-your-homes-roads-closed-to-traffic

http://watertown.patch.com/articles/police-continue-to-hunt-for-clue-in-bombings-that-left-2-dead-dozens-injured


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