Posted on 04/15/2014 5:12:30 PM PDT by kristinn
Barefoot and wearing a black veil, the man dropped a large backpack shortly before being apprehended by police. The area is on high alert as commemorations for the victims of last year's bombing are underway Tuesday.
The area around the Boston Marathon finish line has been evacuated as cops investigate two suspicious backpacks left along Boylston Street.
Ceremonies throughout the day commemorated the victims on the one year anniversary of the bombing at the site that killed three and injured more than 260 people.
Around 7 p.m., a barefoot man wearing a black veil and yelling “Boston Strong!” as he ran left one of the backpacks at the finish line near Boylston and Dartmouth, WBZ-TV reported.
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tweet from Jonathan Elias of WBZ-TV:
>>JUST IN: Source tells WBZ suspect stopped by police told officers he had a “rice cooker” in his bag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hYXbBjRvJyc
possibly him? Kayvon Edson 2007 Wakefield MA high graduate
Boston Radio Watch tweet:
>>His name is all over Twitter now. Sounds like many people recognized him from that photo of the arrest.
bkmark ... Thank You.
no prob— btw a quick websearch turned up his twitter account or one of them
https://twitter.com/KayvonTheFGGT
I’m not kidding about the last part.
Thank You ... Headline (as you know) is stating was a hoax. Will take a look at account. My Thanks once more.
Whew, after reading am going to need a shower.
This guy should be put away for a long, long time. I don’t care if he meant it as some kind of joke.
Exactly..even if he meant for it to be a “joke’ joking about something like that on a day like this is NOT funny..he seems like a whack job to me
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