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It seems one suspect (at least) connected to the shootings (as heard on the BPD scanner) was identified by reddit user yesterday ID'ed the brown male guy - Sunil Tripathi. Wow!
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https://twitter.com/MichaelSkolnik/status/325144306698567680
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Having never lived in the US, I find it astounding that you could make a comment like that and get so many nods. I've never even heard a gunshot, and I don't know anyone who ever has.
Amen to that sentiment! Although, I've been there couple of times, yes I totally agree with you. A couple of times in my visit, gun shots plus/followed by siren wails in the distance have had the combined effect of inducing sleepless nights and prayer-mode in me, many times. :-) I know, I know... crossing the street, swimming, etc., all carry equal risks, but for a lot of people like me, "rat-a-tat" and "bang-bang-ka…
Hope Boston becomes normal soon
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Source:
http://gawker.com/5995034/active-shooter-incident-at-mit-mit...
Cached version of FB page :
http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=help+us+find+sunil+tripathi...
Twitter account :
https://twitter.com/findingsunny
ABC News segment from March 30, 2013:
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/sunil-tripathi-video-missing...
Police scanner identifies the names of Boston marathon suspects.
Suspect 1: Mike Mulugeta
Suspect 2: Sunil Tripathi
Source(s) :
https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedAndrew/status/325141259515752448
https://twitter.com/Salon/status/325152165305937920
https://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/325141840561074176
UPDATE 1:
Middlesex DA: One suspect ( donning a black hat in previously released FBI images ) is dead, second suspect is at large, and is believed to be armed and dangerous.
Source:
UPDATE 2:
Boston PD releases picture of Suspect 2 retrieved earlier from the 7-Eleven convenience store, possibly the site of the carjacking.
Source:
https://twitter.com/Boston_Police/status/325161511549009921/...
UPDATE 3:
Home video footage from a street in Watertown where the exchange of gunfire took place earlier in the night, during which Suspect 1 may have been killed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSlRHJv1nnA
UPDATE 4:
Photo of billboard displaying a missing person alert for Sunil Tripathi
http://riehlworldview.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/missing...
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Watertown is the next town over, and just up the road from where they filled up with fuel after carjacking... so, yeah, looks like it might be very related.
I heard the carjacking reported on scanner while the MIT standoff was still going on, and there was a pretty short time between police at the MIT incident switching channels and some frantic-sounding talk from police following up on LoJack's report that the stolen car was in Watertown. So I'm inclined to believe these are two separate things.
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=200082141349599835237.0...
Family of missing Brown university student Sunil Tripathi has taken down the Facebook page dedicated to him. Source: http://gawker.com/5995034/active-shooter-incident-at-mit-mit... Cached version of FB page : http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=help+us+find+sunil+tripathi... Twitter account : https://twitter.com/findingsunny ABC News segment from March 30, 2013: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/sunil-tripathi-video-missi…
[1] http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/metro/Boston-Marathon-suspect...
EDIT: As I follow the news, it becomes clearer that a large majority of the information is coming from the police scanner. It is interesting to see the way old and new technologies are mixing in the coverage. The reddit thread is essentially a scraper of the scanner; it is very useful to have access to the transcription of important audio because you can take breaks without worrying about missing something.
EDIT 2: Because the names haven't been confirmed yet (Pete Williams says that Tripathi is not suspect #2), and have been removed from the original article, I thought I would change my post accordingly. The names were picked up from the BPD scanner.
[NAME 1: Mike Mulugeta]
[NAME 2: Sunil Tripathi]
Don't wish to make light of this at all, but I do wonder- how often does this happen? After all, "shots fired" is not an uncommon thing in many cities in the US. I just wonder whether we will look back in 12 months time at the "week of hell" and realise that it was actually just a week in which we found all the things that usually go on every week that we don't hear about.
I just wonder whether we will look back in 12 months time at the "week of hell" The mid-April week has always had a higher-than-normal rate of manic-type (e.g. spree killings) violence, and there are a lot of theories about it (spring inciting grandeur in unstable men) but no one knows why. Those are very rare, high-visibility events, though. Overall, that time is no more dangerous than any other. (There's only about…
