Two Boston area officers allegedly shot by the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings — one killed, one seriously wounded — were friends who met in 2010 while training at a police academy, the New York Times reported.
Sean A. Collier, a 26-year-old officer at M.I.T., was killed in a possible ambush of his vehicle by the two suspects on Thursday night. Hours later, Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority police officer Richard H. Donohue was wounded during an intense firefight with the two suspects. Donohue was listed in critical but stable condition as of Friday evening.
The two men were both members of the M.B.T.A. Transit Police Academy’s 25th Municipal Police Officers Class in 2010, according to the Times.
