15.33 (10.33) The University of Massachusetts Darmouth has confirmed that one of the bombers went there. We believe it is Dzhokhar, whose father earlier said he was a second year medical student.
15.20 (10.20) Dzhokhar could be wearing an explosive vest, police fear, according to the Boston Globe.
15.18 (10.18) There are lots of reports about a train being stopped in Connecticut relating to this manhunt. But it's not clear if Dzhokhar is meant to be on this train or if there is a third suspect.
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UPDATE 10:17 a.m. ET — NBC News reports 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev was found with an improvised explosive device on his body.
UPDATE 10:03 a.m. ET — From the Boston Globe: The Tsarnaev family moved to Dagestan from Kyrgyzstan in 2001, a spokesman at a school the children attended told Russia Today [...] “He arrived at our school in first grade and left in second,” Irina Bandurina, the secretary at Makhachkala’s School No.1, told RT. “They arrived from Kyrgyzstan and departed to the US. I’m telling you they lived here for a year. Not the whole year. They arrived at the school in 2001 and departed in March 2002 … There were four of them – two sisters and two brothers… It’s written here that they are from Kyrgyzstan. They are Chechens.”
Update, 10:37 a.m. EST: TheDC’s Patrick Howley has put together all we currently know about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the now-dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect. He “was a student at Bunker Hill Community College and a Golden Gloves boxer who trained at Wai Kru mixed martial arts gym in Boston and competed in a national Golden Gloves competition.” He also described himself as a “very religious” Muslim. Read the full story here.>/P>
Update, 10:20 a.m. EST: The now-deceased bombing suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, apparently posted a video touting an Al Qaeda-linked “prophesy.” You can watch it here.
Update, 10:03 a.m. EST: Buzzfeed reports that high school classmates of at-large Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev, 19, are shocked by today’s news. The former classmates describe Dzokhar as a “sweet, sort of quiet” boy with a number of friends at the prestigious Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.
Update, 9:37 a.m. EST: Anzor Tsarnaev, the father of both Boston Marathon bombing suspects, spoke with The Associated Press by telephone from the Russian city of Makhachkala on Friday: “My son 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.” Read the full AP story here.
Update, 9:14 a.m. EST: The Weekly Standard reports that wanted Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev received a city scholarship from Boston in 2011, and attended the same prestigious secondary school as actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.
Update, 9:07 a.m. EST: It appears Boston PD was relaying threats posted by this Twitter account . … It is possible but unconfirmed that someone impersonating Boston Marathon bombing “Suspect 2″ Dzhokhar Tsarnaev created the account on Twitter one hour ago, tricking Boston police.