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Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by ajju »

spitx wrote: post #230
spitx wrote: post #187

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…

UPDATE 6: 08.49: The names Sunil or Sunny have been heard on the Boston police scanner tonight referring to Suspect No 2, the man who is still on the run. Sunil Tripathi, a philosophy major at Brown University has been missing for a month. Local press reports say that Boston police have identified him as a suspect. Mr Tripathi is described as a left-wing Marxist of Indian Brahmin descent, whose father is a successful…

"Brahmin"!? His caste is relevant, how, exactly? Only a British (or worse, Indian) newspaper would find the necessity to point out the caste of some person being tried by a public mob based on things heard on a police scanner.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by acconrad »

spitx wrote: post #187

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…

I was a mile away from the bombings and I'm a Brown graduate. It's seriously freaking me out.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by signed0 »

spitx wrote: post #230
spitx wrote: post #187

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…

UPDATE 6: 08.49: The names Sunil or Sunny have been heard on the Boston police scanner tonight referring to Suspect No 2, the man who is still on the run. Sunil Tripathi, a philosophy major at Brown University has been missing for a month. Local press reports say that Boston police have identified him as a suspect. Mr Tripathi is described as a left-wing Marxist of Indian Brahmin descent, whose father is a successful…

The AP just reported that they are from Russia. https://twitter.com/AP/status/325196873486962688

Update: AP now reports the suspect is Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev https://twitter.com/AP/status/325198361428893698

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by Udo »

__david__ wrote: post #224
kawsper wrote: post #219

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> To go from that to discovering he's one of the marathon bombers... Wait, is that confirmed?

I read this: http://globalgrind.com/news/411-sunil-tripathi-missing-brown... which seemed legit, until I read the source: http://www.punditpress.com/2013/04/sunil-tripathi-informatio... which seems really sketchy. I've seen it a bunch of places, making it seem like it was confirmed but people are now refuting it: https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedAndrew/status/325176638537076736 I hope for his family's sake it's not him. E…

They're saying it was two Russians now on WCVB. Not sure how credible that is yet. On the other hand, the mere existence of that information on Punditpress is a good reason to doubt its accuracy.

Update: It's semi-official now (on WCVB): the two men were apparently from Chechnya.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by rikacomet »

StavrosK wrote: post #223
signed0 wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They look like different people to me.

They look pretty similar to me.

I feel this is horrible way of morphing the two pics, the lips are totally different in proportions, that is the hardest thing to morph. Any wrong assumptions can get someone killed, please refrain. Calm down people.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by StavrosK »

rikacomet wrote: post #236
StavrosK wrote: post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They look pretty similar to me.

I feel this is horrible way of morphing the two pics, the lips are totally different in proportions, that is the hardest thing to morph. Any wrong assumptions can get someone killed, please refrain. Calm down people.

Oh, I don't know who either of the two is, I was just remarking that they look similar. Can someone clarify?

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by [deleted] »

__david__ wrote: post #224
kawsper wrote: post #219

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> To go from that to discovering he's one of the marathon bombers... Wait, is that confirmed?

I read this: http://globalgrind.com/news/411-sunil-tripathi-missing-brown... which seemed legit, until I read the source: http://www.punditpress.com/2013/04/sunil-tripathi-informatio... which seems really sketchy. I've seen it a bunch of places, making it seem like it was confirmed but people are now refuting it: https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedAndrew/status/325176638537076736 I hope for his family's sake it's not him. E…

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Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by pinaceae »

spitx wrote: post #187

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…

Can this please be taken down?

AP just confirmed the name of the second suspect and it's not one of those above.

You're smearing innocents.

Re: Shots fired at MIT - report of an active shooter near Bldg. 32 (Stata)

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Post by akjetma »

mikeknoop wrote: post #194
spitx wrote: post #187

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…

"White hat guy" vs "Sunil Tripathi" http://i.imgur.com/3Bh7rkc.gif

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy
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