Boston officials have extended to the whole city an order that residents remain inside their homes behind locked doors as thousands of law enforcement officers search for one of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings.
Late last night, the two suspects killed an MIT police officer, authorities said, and hurled explosives at police in a car chase and gun battle that followed. The events left one suspect dead and the other on the loose.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a 26-year-old known to the FBI as Suspect No. 1 and seen in surveillance footage in a black baseball cap, was killed overnight, reported The Associated Press quoting officials. His 19-year-old brother Dzhokhar — dubbed Suspect No. 2 and seen wearing a white, backward baseball cap in the images from Monday's deadly bombing at the marathon finish line — escaped.
Boston police said he should be considered armed and dangerous.
"We believe this man to be a terrorist," said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis. "We believe this to be a man who's come here to kill people."
The Associated Press spoke to the uncle of the suspects, Ruslan Tsarni, who said they have been in the United States for about a decade and had travelled there together from a Russian region near Chechnya, which has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency stemming from separatist wars.
The lockdown, which initially applied to just a number of areas and neighbourhoods west of Boston, was extended to the whole city Friday morning.
"This is a serious situation, we're taking it seriously," said Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. "We're asking the public to take it seriously as well and to assist law enforcement by following those simple instructions."
Patrick said that residents in Boston, as well as surrounding areas of Watertown, Cambridge, Waltham and Belmont, should stay inside and only open the door to properly identified police officers.
The entire Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority has also been suspended to aid the massive police effort in locating the surviving suspect. Police have also asked that businesses remain closed until the man can be apprehended.
Heavily armed police have cordoned off several areas and teams of tactical officers could be seen going door to door in one neighbourhood.
Campus officer killed
On Thursday, the FBI released images of the two men believed to be responsible for the twin bombings at the Boston Marathon, one identified by a black hat and the other by a white hat.
Three people were killed and injured more than 180 others were injured in the attack, some of whom have had limbs amputated.
The suspects' clashes with police began only a few hours after the FBI released photos and videos of the two young men, who were seen carrying backpacks as they mingled among marathon revellers.
The Boston Marathon bombing suspect in the black hat has been killed during a shootout with police, while the suspect in the white hat is at large. (FBI/Reuters) Authorities said surveillance tape recorded late Thursday showed the suspect known for the white hat during a robbery of a convenience store in Cambridge, near the campus of MIT. That's where a university police officer was killed while responding to a report of a disturbance, said State Police Col Timothy Alben.
The officer, identified as Sean Collier, 26, of Somerville, Mass., died of multiple gunshot wounds.
Two men carjacked a vehicle soon after and for a period of time kept the driver hostage before releasing him.
Police pursued the vehicle into Watertown, a suburb west of Boston, while explosives were reportedly thrown from the vehicle and gunfire exchanged.
Watertown resident Christine Yajko said she was awakened at about 1:30 a.m. by a loud noise, began to walk to her kitchen and heard gunfire.
"I heard the explosion, so I stepped back from that area, then I went back out and heard a second one," she told The Associated Press. "It was very loud. It shook the house a little."
Multiple gunshot wounds, blast trauma
During the pursuit, another police officer was injured and taken to hospital.
The first of the two suspects was critically wounded and taken to hospital, where he died.
Doctors at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston said they treated a man who was brought in with police but wouldn't say if it was the suspect with the black hat. They treated the man, who showed signs of blast trauma and multiple gunshot wounds, but he was pronounced dead at 1:35 a.m. ET. Friday.
The state police bomb squad is assessing and removing any potentially explosive devices that may have been thrown on the street during the pursuit of the suspects.
Boston cab driver Imran Sais said he was standing on a street corner at a police barricade across from a diner when he heard an explosion.
"I heard a loud boom and then a rapid succession of pop, pop, pop," he said. "It sounded like automatic weapons. And then I heard the second explosion."
He said he could smell something burning and advanced to check it out but area residents at their windows yelled at him, "Hey, it's gunfire! Don't go that way!"
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