Search for marathon bombing suspect locks down Watertown, surrounding communitiesBy Shelley Murphy, Milton J. Valencia, Wesley Lowery, Akilah Johnson, Eric Moskowitz, Lisa Wangsness, Brian MacQuarrie, John R. Ellement and Martin Finucane
Globe Staff April 19, 2013
WATERTOWN — With nearly a million residents of the Boston area hunkering down behind locked doors, heavily-armed police are making their way through a 20-block area of this community, searching for one of the suspects in the deadly Boston Marathon terror bomb attacks, authorities said this afternoon.
The search comes after a chaotic, violent night in which a second suspect died in a firefight with police, and one police officer was killed and another was seriously wounded.
Colonel Timothy Alben, head of the State Police, said in a news conference shortly after 12:30 p.m. that there had been “no apprehension at this point,” but said the situation was changing moment by moment.
Local, state, and federal law enforcement officers, including the Secret Service, are undertaking a door-to-door search of the area in Watertown. K-9 teams, explosives experts, and SWAT officers are involved, said State Police spokesman David Procopio. Alben said the search was about 60 percent complete.
Authorities cannot rule out the possibility that the suspect is wearing an explosive vest, Procopio said.
Authorities are searching for Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, a government official told the Globe this morning. The dead suspect is his brother, a separate source said. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is a native of Kyrgyzstan, the Kyrgyz state news agency said. He was studying at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, university officials said.
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