BU News Service reporter Ben Levine was out in Watertown as the shelter-in-place restrictions were in place to aid the law enforcement officers in a massive man hunt for the second marathon bombing suspect.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev is the subject of what was titled “Will Box for Passport,” a photo essay by Johannes Hirn for the 2010 issue of The Comment, a BU graduate student magazine.
An interactive timeline of the unfolding events in the manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.
Gun shots rang out in Watertown and law enforcement officials converged on a boat in a backyard on Franklin Street in Watertown, and peacefully took marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev into custody.
Boston area in lockdown as police hunt for second suspect in Watertown. Photos of empty roads and highways shared via social media tell the story.
At about 10:45 pm Thursday night an MIT Police Officer, Sean Collier, 26, of Somerville, was shot and killed responding to a call at Vassar and Main, said police.
The trustees of Boston University have established a scholarship fund to honor the life of BU’s Lu Lingzi (GRS ’14). Board members started the fund by donating more than half a million dollars.
The FBI released photos and video of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing on Thursday afternoon and asked for the public’s help in identifying them.