Police search for suspect after gunfight outside Boston; explosives reportedly detonated | Fox News
Police search for suspect after gunfight outside Boston; explosives reportedly detonated | Fox News.
BREAKING NEWS: Police in Watertown, Mass., reportedly were searching for a heavily armed suspect who may have been involved in the shooting death of an MIT police officer after reportedly taking another suspect into custody early Friday.
Police and federal authorities were investigating if the suspects are possibly tied to the Boston Marathon bombing.
WCBV-TV said the suspects threw and detonated explosives during a car chase with police.
Police were working to apprehend a young male with a hat on who was reportedly pulling on vehicle doors, according to police scanner traffic.
An FBI official told Fox News early Friday that one person was in custody and an officer was down but said it was too early to tell if the police activity in Watertown or the MIT shooting were related to the Boston Marathon bombing.
Dozens of officers and National Guard members descended on Watertown shortly after the shooting outside a building on MIT’s campus in Cambridge, according to the Associated Press.
Authorities were calling for somebody to get on the ground and put their hands up and a loud thud was heard after someone shouted “fire in the hole,” the news agency reported.
Fox News reporters on the scene cannot yet confirm these reports.
Earlier Friday, Cambridge police and the Middlesex District Attorney’s office said the MIT officer was responding to a report of a disturbance when he was shot late Thursday. He later died at a hospital. His name was not immediately released.
State police spokesman Dave Procopio said the shooting took place about 10:30 p.m. outside an MIT building. The area was cordoned off and surrounded by responding law enforcement agencies, according to a posting on the university’s website.
Authorities told MyFoxBoston.com that the officer appeared to have been shot multiple times. There were no other victims.
Procopio said authorities were searching for a suspect or suspects. No arrests have been made.
The university described the situation late Thursday as “active and extremely dangerous.” People were urged to stay away from the Stata Building, a mixed use building with faculty offices, classrooms and a common area.
The shooting came little more than three days after the twin bombings on the Boston Marathon that killed three people, wounded more than 180 others and led to an increase in security across the city.
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WarSclerotic 
April 19, 2013 at 3:21 PM
So now we have some murderous cowardly bastards who are reported to be Chechen Wahabis, much like our Saudi ‘friends’….imagine that! And all the while the MSM was speculating the bombing was an attack by ‘radical right wing’ white boys. What a crock. What a disgrace to have this type of BS being fed to the ‘uninformed’ masses today. And what’s all this hype about Obama rushing off to kowtow to his superiors in the House of Saud? Makes me want to puke. Meanwhile, the poor victims of this attack will never know the real players in this horrific event nor will they experience the bitter-sweet taste of revenge for their loss. The real uncensored photos of these poor souls laying in the street with limbs missing need to be shown to the world so that everyone can see what we are dealing with. People need to be mad as hell and refuse to take it anymore. We are not pawns in this game of ‘shuck and jive’. Thatisall.