Martial arts gym disavows ties to dead suspect and one time Golden Gloves competitor Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
Another dispatch from TPM Reader CM, from in the search area in Watertown …
I thought I’d follow up with you from my e-mail from early this morning, “In Watertown”. It was a very long night, but both my wife and I are perfectly fine — at least physically. Things are very quiet in our part of the neighborhood now; our corner has become an extemporaneous gathering point for law enforcement to take a breather, grab some Dunkin’ Donuts coffee, and talk amongst themselves. The temperature is perfect outside, and if it wasn’t for the larger circumstances, one would feel inspired to go hang out with them.
Day after bombing, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (the brother who remains alive and at large) picked up car from auto mechanic’s shop in Somerville. It had been brought with bumper damage two weeks before. When told it wasn’t ready yet, Tsarnaev replied: “I don’t care, I don’t care, I don’t care, I need the car right now.”
This image, taken through the window screen of a woman’s home in Watertown, gives you a sense of what was and is happening on the ground.
Sean Collier, 26, the MIT police officer killed last night in the first link in the chain of events that lead us to this on-going chase, little more than 12 hours ago.
Over night, as I was monitoring events and trying to report what we could confirm in the editor’s blog, I was so focused on phone reporting, monitoring twitter and monitoring police scanners, that I oddly neglected what has always been one of TPM’s core ways of collecting information, our emails from you. I followed the situation from the first alert about the shooting at MIT until about 6 AM when I turned things over to the rest of the team and got a few hours of sleep. I’d missed reports like this one from TPM Reader CM sent in at 1:36 AM last night …
I’m a Prime subscriber and a long-time reader. I live on Dexter Ave. in Watertown, Mass. where we just experienced what I can only describe as war.
More info on Dzhokar Tsarnaev, Suspect #2, who remains at large, from his page on a Russian social media site (via the AP): He graduated from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School in Cambridge, Mass., in 2011.
Here’s a helpful timeline to catch you up on overnight events in the Boston Marathon bombing manhunt.