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.
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.
This is really heartbreaking. By all accounts, that guy had exceptional friends and family who really cared for him. By the looks of it he is/was intelligent, from a reasonably affluent background, well educated, surrounded by incredibly nice and loving people. 99.99% of us would have good reason to be jealous of this background, I certainly am. One can only speculate what insanity drove him to do this.
Update: it looks like that was utterly false information, originally spewed into the ether by Punditpress. I'm really glad it didn't turn out to be this guy. I hope they do find him or he decides to go home again.
This whole thread puts HN to shame. It is a shame on all of us. Horrific. Just horrific. Shame on the people who threw some innocent Brown (yes, the school, not the skin color) kid under the bus, or MIT or whatever other school. The kid is missing and his family gets death threats for something he didn't do. They even had to take down their searching for him page. Shame on all of us for participating in this.
It pains me to admit this, but your self-righteous indignation is justified. Like I said, I just hope something positive comes out of this and the increased awareness leads to him being found, or better: him deciding it's time to go home to such an amazing group of people who clearly love him very much.
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.
I certainly do hope someone is going to take this down. I did downvote it when the post was first made, but it seems like people have gone crazy over there in the States, what with the public naming and blaming of "suspects".
WCVB is reporting that [NAME 1] has died from his wounds [1]. [NAME 2] is still at large — the police are setting up a perimeter and the search will become much easier in several hours when the sun rises.
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.
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.
Sure, but I mean to ask "who's white hat guy" and "what does Sunil have to do with either of the two attacks"? I saw the name thrown about here but nobody really clarified.
Ah, Redditors were in a large thread looking at the marathon bomb blast pictures, to identify suspects. Someone on reddit linked pictures of one suspect to the missing student, Sunil.
Really? What kind of hacker are you if you don't think about basic statistics and false positives? Jeez... The readership here has dropped to the level of slime mold. I guess I'm starting to fall into this category myself.
I have yet to see an actual news outlet use either of these two names. There have been plenty of tweets referring to a police scanner without anyone actually confirming that the names were used.
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
software developer. His family set up a Twitter account
and a Facebook page last month to help the search for
him. Mr Tripathi was first identified as a suspect in a
crowdsleuthing exercise on the Reddit website.
The other suspect, who was wearing the black hat, has
been named as Mike Mulugeta. He is thought to have died
in hospital after a shoot-out with police.
Their identities have not been officially confirmed.
"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.
You are right - Indian newspapers usually refer to it only when it is at least tangentially relevant - eg. usually they'll refer to some politician's caste. I consider this to be just as bad because it continues to put caste front and center as a factor to be considered when evaluating a political.
The update you quoted above has conveniently been deleted from the source now that the AP has done some real reporting and identified the Russian suspects.
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:
http://twitpic.com/ckd6xd
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...