Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick justified the stay-indoors order on Boston based on the scale of the firefight with the suspects late Thursday night.
“There was a firefight out here last night, some 200 rounds and explosives,” he said. “So we were very justified, I believe, based on what we understood about the investigation in taking what we knew was a big step in asking people to stay indoors when we went house to house here and to other communities close by…which law enforcement believed the suspect could have fled.”
