R.I.P. Scout26
Updated 12:02 a.m.: MIT issued an emergency alert at 10:48 on Thursday night reporting shots fired on the university campus. MIT's school newspaper, The Tech, reports, "Shots fired near 32 Vassar St (Stata Center), police officer down. Please stay inside." That report is backed up by CBS News's Bonney Kapp who reports hearing "officer down" on the police scanner just before the MIT alert went out. The Tech followed up a few minutes later, reporting that the injured officer was a member of the MIT campus police and was taken to Mass. General Hospital. According to the Massachusetts State Police, the officer died from his wounds just before midnight.
Wow, this thread is so done. Remember at the beginning, when it was about a bunch of innocent people getting their legs blown off?
I was always pleasant, friendly and within arm's reach of a gun.
If government is the answer, it must have been a really, really, really stupid question.
An act of terrorism that resulted in one of the worst abrogations of gun rights in American history btw.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/04/18/shooting-reported-on-mit-campus/MIT campus cop got shot tonight.Our "non-suspect" who is extremely armed and dangerous? Hiding with a sympathetic friend at a neighboring school, or using the MIT computer lab or library for anonymous computer use?
Yeah, they're currently working on blowing-in-place devices these guys left. The surviving one is the Brown University student that went missing a while back,Sunil Tripathi is the name,
Who is this Sunil guy?
Cool link, sounds ongoing, an advisement for plainclothes to be identifiable and stick with uniforms in order to not get shot. Leaving it up to listen in background.Abandon houses? Devices? WTF?
did some le get shot due to poor id?
The violence began around 10:30 p.m., with the robbery of a 7-11 in nearby Cambridge, authorities said. The two men then fatally shot an MIT campus police officer and carjacked a Mercedes sport-utility vehicle at gunpoint, keeping the vehicle's owner hostage for about a half-hour, police said. The owner was released at a gas station in Cambridge, authorities said. He wasn't injured.
Law enforcement officials said the tumult began just before 11 p.m., when the suspects approached a police officer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and shot him in the head.The two then stole the officer’s cruiser, robbed a nearby 7-Eleven, carjacked a Mercedes SUV and briefly kidnapped the driver, the sources said. The suspects threw explosives out the window during the chase that followed, they said. A Boston transit police officer was shot and wounded, authorities said.