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Just saw a report online that at 10:48 PM EDT there was a report of an officer shot and a shooter loose on the MIT campus. Why is all I want to know. Why?!?!
Add: You'll have to excuse me, as a former member of law enforcement I take these things personally. I grieve for the officer's family, and the MIT community.
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Reports said possibly an officer was down.
http://www.ibtimes.com/mit-shooting-officer-shot-campus-mass...
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What is going on with everyone?
Sephrena
Here's my source
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/04/theres-shoot...
Campus is on lockdown.
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
Officer has died
It has been reported by MIT police chief that the officer died just before midnight their time (EDT).
Requiescat In Pace
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
:(
... may he rest in peace and be reborn to a better life.
Sephrena
More bad news
I used to go to Cambridge MA, every year for meetings that took place at Harvard. I cannot imagine things like this happening there (nor could I imagine the Bombing). What a nasty world we seem to have now.
The cloth
Of our civilization is being tested by the barbarians that live among us. Those who think they can tame and bend these forces to use to there services are fools, history shows they will fail.
All of us are being tested as to our resolve to hold onto civilization and not allow the barbarians to take our knowledge away from us that we know what is right, this time Civilization will hold and they will fail. There is only one way we will go forward. And that is together.
So mote it Be.
In faith
In love
Michele Wilkinson WhiteWolf
With those with open eyes the world reads like a book
Come to Fiji
We have had only 1 shooting death in the last 13 YEARS, and that was accidental. Yet the US, Australia, and New Zealand governments say it is unsafe because we don't have a democratically elected government. Go Figure. Our Prime Minister has a 66% approval rating.
Cheers,
Caren
I wish
Right now I can't afford to get my prescriptions filled, Fiji is just a wisp of smoke on the horizon.
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
Multiple Incidents in Boston Area
News is reporting police left the area of the MIT shooting to respond to a carjacking ?? where someone was shooting out of the car at police. In Watertown there was a gun fight and one suspect is down and reports of IEDs thrown out the car. Also reported as grenades. Second suspect has fled in another vehicle.
As of 1:38A reporter heard a loud boom another reporter saw a wounded officer. Report is they are still looking for an active shooter.
Also earlier a person was removed by stretcher from a subway station one stop from
MIT.
Reporter is watching an arrest happen.
Update. Eyewitness saw a bomb disposal robot being used after shootout with 20+ shots fired.
Michelle B
Boston Update
As of 6:30 AM Boston radio and TV stations are reporting:
One of the Marathon bombers is dead, the other is at large.
The entire Boston area public transportation system (MBTA, buses, subway and commuter rail) is shut down.
MIT, Harvard and Emerson college have cancelled classes.
There is an intense search going on in the Waltham neighborhood where a shootout occured. SWAT teams are going house to house and removing the residents who have been trapped in their homes all night.
The string of incidents started with a convience store robbery in Cambridge followed by the shooting and killing of the MIT campus police officer. The supects hijacked a car and released the occupant in Cambridge on Memorial Drive and continued into Watertown which is west of Cambridge where the shootout occured.
Update as of 7:30 AM.
The second injured officer is a MBTA transit police officer and is in critical condition.
Michelle B
I First Thought...
that someone might have identified one of the bombers and they were in a shootout with police, but they said the suspect was wanted in a robbery. It kind of makes sense that the bombers might have a strong background in electronics so when they said M.I.T, I thought they might be on to something.
Bomb suspect
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22212946
It seems to be the bombers.
lockdonw
What i know from local authorities and news reports is that my hometown newton, Watertown (which is north of me), Wellesley (which is east of me), Needham (which is southwest of me), MIT, WIT, and various other things are currently on lock down. while i can go to work, it has been seriously advised that i stay inside. reason is do to last nights firefight but no more info then that.
Ill give more details as i get them.
Update: boston.com
Update on what is known.
Bombing suspect
The second brother has finally been captured. He is presently being transported to the hospital for wounds he recieved during the shootout that killed his brother.
YES!!!
Something to be thankful about!
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin