Thread: MIT campus police killed in campus shooting

MIT campus police killed in campus shooting

Updated 9:26 pm, Thursday, April 18, 2013

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Authorities say a campus police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has died from injuries in a shooting on the campus outside Boston.

Cambridge police and the Middlesex District Attorney's office says the officer was responding to a report of a disturbance when he was shot multiple times. He later died at a hospital. His name was not immediately released.

State police spokesman Dave Procopio says the shooting took place about 10:30 p.m. outside an MIT building.

Procopio says authorities are searching for a suspect or suspects.

There are no other victims.

About 11,000 people attend the prestigious school.

The campus website said police were sweeping the campus and urged people to stay indoors.

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BOMB SUSPECT DEAD, MANHUNT FOR 2ND
Boston suspects ID'd as brothers

•Dead: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26;
still at large: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19
•Much of Boston on lockdown
•Chaos overnight: Bullets, bombs
•1 officer killed, 1 hurt |

FULL STORY http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/19/us/bos...nce/index.html

Boston on lockdown as details pour in: Suspects told carjack victim they were marathon bombers

Matt Rourke / AP
Police officers during the lockdown in Watertown, Mass.

By Pete Williams, Richard Esposito, Michael Isikoff and Tracy Connor, NBC News
Boston and its suburbs, universities and transit system were on total lockdown Friday as police hunted for marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev -- on the loose after his accomplice brother was killed in a stunning chain of events that left one cop dead and another injured, officials said.
During a desperate effort to flee after their photos were released by the FBI, the brothers carjacked a Mercedes SUV and told the driver they were the men behind Monday's double-blast attack at the race and had just killed a campus security officer, a source told NBC News. The driver was released unhurt.
The older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed after a wild chase and firefight, but Dzhokhar was still at large in a densely populated area, and an associate was being sought. Adding to the nightmare, an explosive was found in Boston Friday morning and disabled, an official said.

The suspects' uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, called them "losers" and urged Dzhokhar to turn himself in. "We're ashamed," he thundered outside his Maryland home.
Three dozen FBI agents were surrounding the Cambridge, Mass., home where the brothers, of Chechen origin, grew up after moving to the U.S. a decade ago, seeking asylum. They feared it could be booby-trapped, Boston police sources said.
NBC's Lester Holt reports from Watertown, Mass., where Boston and state police, SWAT teams and a helicopter are engaged in a tense search for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing who is still at large.

Across the area, as police cars screamed down streets and helicopters hovered overhead, authorities urged the public to stay inside and keep their doors locked to anyone but law-enforcement officers.
"There is a massive manhunt under way," Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said. "We are asking people to shelter in place."
Subways and buses were shut down, and Amtrak service to Boston was cut. Harvard University, Boston University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Emerson University were all closed and students were told to stay inside. The University of Massachusetts' Dartmouth campus was being evacuated because someone wanted in the case is registered at the school.
The lockdown initially affected more than 300,000 people in Cambridge, Watertown, Newton, Brighton, Allston and Belmont, but by 8 a.m., the entire city of Boston was paralyzed, officials said.
Watertown, where the second suspect was last seen, was the epicenter of a sprawling search. Frightened residents were trapped in their homes as convoys of heavily armed officers and troops arrived by the hour.
The overnight violence began near MIT about five hours after the FBI released surveillance photos of the two men suspected of planting two bombs near the finish line of Monday's Boston Marathon, killing three and wounding 176.
Read more: Who are the brothers accused of the Boston Marathon bombing?
Tips about the identity of the suspects were still pouring in when the Tsarnaev brothers robbed a store and then fatally shot MIT police officer Sean Collier, 26, in his vehicle at 10:20 p.m., law enforcement officials said.
The brothers then carjacked a Mercedes SUV, holding the driver captive for a half-hour while they tried to use his cash card to get money from three ATM's, a source said. At the first, they put in the wrong number; at the second, they took out $800 and at the third, they were told they had exceeded the withdrawal limit, the source said.

The man was released unharmed at a gas station in Cambridge, sources said. As they sped toward Watertown, a police chase ensued and the suspects tossed explosive devices out the window, officials said.
Uncredited / AP
FBI photos of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, brothers from the Chechen Republic. The man on the left is dead. The man on the right, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is still at large.

There was a long exchange of gunfire, according to Andrew Kitzenberg of Watertown, who took photos of the clash from his window and spread them on social media.
“They were also utilizing bombs, which sounded and looked like grenades, while engaging in the gunfight,” he told NBC News in an interview. “They also had what looked like a pressure-cooker bomb.
“I saw them light this bomb. They threw it towards the officers,” he said. “There was smoke that covered our entire street.”
A transit officer, identified as Richard H. Donahue, 33, was seriously injured during the pursuit. Authorities said he was in surgery at Mount Auburn Hospital.
Kitzenberg said he saw the firefight end when Tamerlan Tsarnaev ran toward the officers and ultimately fell to the ground.
Tamerlan— the man in the black hat from FBI photos released six hours earlier — had an improvised explosive device strapped to his chest, law enforcement officials said.

Dzhokhar -- who was wearing a white hat in the surveillance photos from the marathon -- drove the SUV through a line of police officers at the end of the street, Kitzenberg said.
Police said Dzhokhar has a Massachusetts driver's license and lived in Cambridge. He was described as light-skinned and with brown, curly hair, and wearing a gray hoodie. The FBI was releasing more photos of him.
His father, in Russia, told the Associated Press he was "a true angel" and described him as a medical student who was expected to visit for the holidays.
Authorities painted a starkly different picture.
"We believe this man to be a terrorist," Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said. "We believe this to be a man who's come here to kill people."
Armored humvees and busloads of law-enforcement could be seen rolling into Watertown in the hours after the gunfight. A photo showed two officers in military gear lying on a backyard shed with their weapons trained on a home.
"We've got every asset we could possibly muster on the ground right now," Patrick said.

Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller headed to the White House to brief President Obama on the developments.
Secretary of State John Kerry, who is from Massachusetts, praised law enforcement for their work during "a pretty direct confrontation with evil."
"In the past few days we have seen the best and we've seen the worst of human behavior, and it's the best that all of us really want to focus on," he said.
Senate Intelligence Committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein told NBC News it's clear the marathon bombing was "a terrorist attack."
"It's also clear, you know, that you know you don't have to be a card-carrying member of any terrorist group to commit a terrorist attack," she said.
NBC News' Kasie Hunt contributed to this story
Slideshow: Search for suspects in Boston Marathon bombings


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A tense night of police activity that left a university officer dead on campus just days after the Boston Marathon bombings and amid a hunt for two suspects caused officers to converge on a neighborhood outside Boston, where residents heard gunfire and explosions.

Launch slideshow

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Watertown couple wake up to find bullet in their home
Timeline of terror hunt: From the release of suspect photos to a rolling shootout
Boston transit shut down
Photos from locked-down Bostonians
　

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Sean Collier: MIT Police Officer Killed in Shootout





Patrol Officer Sean Collier

BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff

April 19, 2013 3:51 pm

MIT Patrol Officer Sean Collier was the man killed Thursday night in a shootout between police and the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, MIT said Friday.

The 26-year-old Somerville, Mass., native, drew praise from superiors and was known for his affable personality.

“Sean was one of these guys who really looked at police work as a calling,” MIT Police Chief John DiFava told MIT News. “He was born to be a police officer.”

Well-liked by students, Collier was active with the MIT Outing Club, an outdoors club, according to MIT News:

Dozens of other students and alumni who met Collier in his 15 months at MIT described him as “dedicated,” “cheerful,” “personable,” “charming” and “kind.” Many encountered him through his involvement with MIT-EMS, the Institute’s ambulance service — which transported the wounded officer to Massachusetts General Hospital last evening.
“Many on campus knew him because he was just so friendly,” junior Max Ting recalled. “I had known of him for many months before having the pleasure of meeting him. … He was always smiling, always had a funny story to tell, and he would always remember what I was up to last time we spoke and would ask about it. … He truly was an asset to our campus.” [...]

The young officer, MIT senior Noel Morales said, was a regular presence at student events — and one who would always introduce himself to students, ask their names, and crack jokes. “He was always really fun to hang out with,” Morales said.

Boston Globe reporter David Abel spoke with Colliers roommate Friday, who said, “He was the nicest person.”

At some point Thursday night, the two bombing suspects engaged MIT police officers with gunfire and carjacked a Mercedes. Another shootout later occurred, which killed Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the elder suspect.
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