MIT: Shooter On Loose; Officer Down

Atlantic Wire ^ | 18 April 2013

[NautiNurse]

MIT issued an emergency alert at 10:48 on Thursday night reporting shots fired on the university campus. The school newspaper reports, "Shots fired near 32 Vassar St (Stata Center), police officer down. Please stay inside." That report is backed up by CBS News's Bonney Kapp who reports hearing "officer down" on the police scanner just before the MIT alert went out. For now, details are scarce, but the suspect is on the loose and considered armed and extremely dangerous.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

Thanks. One less thing to struggle over! lol

[AllAmericanGirl44]

Thanks for the link. At least one loose end tied up!

[EternalVigilance]

Beautiful. Thanks.

[MarMema]

http://vk.com/id160300242

Very interesting stuff here...another FReeper just shared it with me. I had not seen it before, nor have I seen it posted...

[okie01]

I was repeating what they said on MSNBC at the time.

And, as is their fashion, they screwed it up pretty badly.

Not Turkey. Russia. Not Czech. Chechen.

See tag line...

[penelopesire]

Going back through the thread....wanted to give you kudos..first person to mention Chechens...good job!!

[MHGinTN]

The Russian flag at one of the bomb spots could have been a clue ...

[stlnative]

check these out...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2312123/Boston-latest-Terrorista-1-license-plate-friends-Boston-bomber-arrested-female.html#ixzz2R3tMQw6R

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3010362/posts

[penelopesire]

After the fact, saturday, of course. I was referring to the beginning of this thread, when the chase began and we did not know the perps identity. Folks were wondering how the perps being described as middle eastern could look white or be jihadi islamists. The poster I gave kudos to was the first to say the terrorist could be Chechen in the thread during the shoot out.

[stlnative]

adding this little tidbit about finding the shootout pressure cooker lid embedded in a car...

http://news.yahoo.com/boston-bombing-suspect-still-hospitalized-guarded-072110364.html

“We’re in a gunfight, a serious gunfight. Rounds are going and then all of the sudden they see something being thrown at them and there’s a huge explosion,” Watertown Police Chief Edward Deveau said Saturday of the melee.

The chief said one of the explosives was the same type used during the Boston Marathon attack, and authorities later recovered a pressure cooker lid that had embedded in a car down the street. He said the suspects also tossed two grenades before Tamerlan ran out of ammunition and police tackled him.

[Half Vast Conspiracy]

Suspect 1: Mike Mulugeta

Suspect 2: Sunil Tripathi.

Where did you get this info? I thought I heard it on the police scanner. I also thought that I posted the name when I heard it. Now, I can't find my post. I'm wondering if I was too tired to recall correctly. Or, I'm just plain stupid. ;)

[onyx]

I got it from caww.

[Mat_Helm]

One gun, these bozos only had one gun and killed the MIT officer just to steal his gun and couldn't even remove the weapon from the slain officers holster. The shoot out with hundreds of rounds going off was all handgun rounds with a single Ruger 9mm in the hands of the suspects. Nuts!