Late this afternoon, Massachusetts state and local officials held a press conference informing Watertown residents that after a door-to-door search by SWAT police, the remaining Boston bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had not been found, but that the lock down was lifted and residents were now free to leave their homes.
Less than an hour after the press conference, police were told someone was found in a boat in the back yard of a home on Franklin St., Watertown. Shots were heard just before 7 p.m. and the area was cordoned off.
After a nearly two-hour standoff, Tsarnaev was taken alive and driven by ambulance to Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge where he is being treated for injuries (read more here).
The harrowing day for the people of East Massachusetts began in the wee hours this morning in Cambridge, MA, where the two alleged Boston Marathon bombings suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, ages 26 and 19 respectively, shot dead an MIT campus police officer Sean Collier, 26.
The two brothers carjacked a Mercedes, then released the driver unharmed. The two men drove to Watertown, where they engaged in a gun battle with police. Tamerlan was killed or blew himself up with explosives. A police officer, Richard Donahue, 33, was gravely wounded and taken to a hospital.
Click here for a gruesome photo of the post-mortem body of Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
The Tsarnaev brothers were natives of Russia, near Chechnya, but as refugees had legally immigrated to the United States several years ago. They received their U.S. citizenship on Sept. 11, 2012.
For more details on today, see “Who are the two Boston bombings suspects? (Updates)” and “One Boston Bombing Suspect Is Dead.“
~Eowyn