One of the Boston
bombing suspects is dead and the second is on the loose and said to be 'armed
and dangerous' after a dramatic shootout in the suburbs of the city.
The terrorist dubbed
'Suspect 1' by the FBI died in hospital with multiple gunshot wounds and
possible blast injuries after a fierce gun battle rocked the Watertown area
hours after a police officer was shot dead at the nearby MIT campus.
The other, named today
as 19-year-old Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, who was seen
on CCTV wearing a white baseball cap, has gone on the run.
Boston Police Chief
Ed Davis said: 'There is a terrorist on the loose who wants to kill people
- do not open your door'.
Today, sources said
the suspects were believed to be brothers from the Russia region near Chechnya
and had lived in U.S. for at least one year.
Boston was in
lockdown as police hunted the second suspect through the streets, with all mass
transit shut and residents warned to stay inside.
A transit police
officer was critically wounded in the exchange of gunfire with the suspects,
police added.
Dzhokhar A Tsarnaev
is believed to be a legal immigrant to the U.S., who arrived in the country one
year ago from Chechnya.
He may have had
military training, according to NBC. The 19-year-old, who attended Cambridge Rindge and
Latin School, is an amateur wrestling champion.
'Suspect 1' who died
in hospital is believed to be 20 years old and the brother of 'Suspect 2' Dzhokhar.
The older brother
attended Bunkerhill Community College and was studying to become an engineer
but took a year off to pursue boxing.
The drama unfolded
hours after the FBI released images of two men named as suspects in the Boston
blast which killed three and injured 176 on Monday.
The Middlesex
district attorney said the two men are suspected of killing a Massachusetts
Institute of Technology police officer on campus in Cambridge late last night,
then stealing a car at gunpoint.
Dozens of police
officers, FBI agents, national guard, K-9 units and SWAT teams rushed to
Watertown after midnight after a reported car chase involving the two suspects
in a black 2013 Mercedes.
A short time later,
police received reports of a carjacking by two men who kept their victim inside
the car for about half an hour, the statement said.
Police pursued that
car to Watertown, where explosives were thrown from the car at police and
gunfire was exchanged, the statement said.
'During the exchange
of the gunfire, we believe that one of the suspects was struck and ultimately
taken into custody.'
A doctor from Beth
Israel Deaconess Medical Center said the suspect died after suffering multiple
wounds from gunshots and possibly the blast of an explosive.
'There were signs of
more than just gunshot wounds, said the doctor, who did not give his name.
'A second suspect was
able to flee from that car and there is an active search going on at this point
in time,' Colonel Timothy Alben, superintendent of the Massachusetts State
Police, told a news conference.
'What we are looking
for right now is a suspect consistent with suspect No 2, the white-capped
individual who was involved in Monday's bombing of the Boston Marathon,' Alben
said.
Police say the two
suspects discharged several explosives at police from the vehicle during the
pursuit.
According to eyewitness
reports, two men believed to be in their early twenties engaged in a furious
gun fight with dozens of police on a backstreet of Watertown.
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