Boston Marathon investigation: FBI may have suspect in bombings

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Liz Goodwin, Yahoo! News | The Lookout


Authorities believe they have identified a suspect from video footage in the Boston Marathon bombings, Reuters reported Wednesday.

The FBI is holding a press conference at 5:00 p.m. and is expected to announce the news then. CNN reported that the breakthrough in the investigation came from analyzing department store surveillance video and video from a news station.

The Boston Globe reported that officials have found an image of "a suspect carrying, and perhaps dropping, a black bag at the second bombing scene."

An FBI spokesman in Boston declined to comment on the reports to Yahoo News.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Hopefully its a white american..... or so I have read.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By DENISE LAVOIE | Associated Press


BOSTON (AP) — A suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings is about to be arrested, a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation said Wednesday.

The official was not authorized to divulge details of the investigation and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The suspect was to be taken into custody by federal marshals and taken to a Boston courthouse, the official said.

The official spoke shortly after several media outlets reported that a suspect had been identified from surveillance video taken at a Lord & Taylor store between the two bomb blasts.

An official news briefing was scheduled later Wednesday.

Law enforcement agencies had earlier pleaded for the public to come forward with photos, videos or any information that might help them solve the twin bombings that killed three people and wounded more than 170 on Monday.

Investigators circulated information about the bombs, which involved kitchen pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails and other lethal shrapnel. But the FBI said nobody had claimed responsibility.

A person close to the investigation had previously told AP the bombs consisted of explosives put in 1.6-gallon pressure cookers, one with shards of metal and ball bearings, the other with nails.

Investigators in white jumpsuits had fanned out across the streets, rooftops and awnings around the blast site in search of clues on Wednesday. They combed through debris amid the toppled orange sports drink dispensers, trash cans and sleeves of plastic cups strewn across the street at the marathon's finish line.

President Barack Obama branded the attack an act of terrorism. Obama plans to attend an interfaith service Thursday in the victims' honor in Boston.

Scores of victims of the Boston bombing remained in hospitals, many with grievous injuries. Doctors who treated the wounded corroborated reports that the bombs were packed with shrapnel intended to cause mayhem. In addition to the 5-year-old child, a 9-year-old girl and 10-year-old boy were among 17 victims listed in critical condition.

The trauma surgery chief at Boston Medical Center says most of the injuries his hospital treated after the marathon bombings were to the legs.

"We have a lot of lower extremity injuries, so I think the damage was low to the ground and wasn't up," Dr. Peter Burke said. "The patients who do have head injuries were blown into things or were hit by fragments that went up."

Dozens of patients have been released from hospitals around the Boston area.

At Massachusetts General Hospital, all four amputations performed there were above the knee, with no hope of saving more of the legs, said Dr. George Velmahos, chief of trauma surgery.

"It wasn't a hard decision to make," he said Tuesday. "We just completed the ugly job that the bomb did."

An intelligence bulletin issued to law enforcement includes a picture of a mangled pressure cooker and a torn black bag that the FBI said were part of a bomb that exploded during the marathon.

The bombs exploded 10 or more seconds apart, tearing off victims' limbs and spattering streets with blood. The blasts near the finish line instantly turned the festive race into a hellish scene of confusion, horror and heroics.

The blasts killed 8-year-old Martin Richard, of Boston, and 29-year-old Krystle Campbell, of Medford. The Shenyang Evening News, a state-run Chinese newspaper, identified the third victim as Lu Lingzi. She was a graduate student at Boston University.

[Muddy]

I just saw what appears to be some doctored footage by the media on facebook.

I have no clue if this link works..

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=238382442969690&set=vb.316852408377305&type=2&theater

[PorkChopSandwiches]

thats weird. Not sure what the point would be

[Hal-9000]

I just saw what appears to be some doctored footage by the media on facebook.

I have no clue if this link works..

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=238382442969690&set=vb.316852408377305&type=2&theater

I'm getting content not available Muddy, but it does go to the Facebook site

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Jana Winter - FOX News


DEVELOPING: Investigators have arrested a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing after reviewing photos and video from Monday's event, a federal source confirmed to FoxNews.com.

The suspect, who is expected to appear in federal court in Boston later today, has not yet been named by authorities. He was seen on surveillance footage that showed a young man carrying – and perhaps dropping – a black bag at the second bombing scene at the finish line of Monday's race, where two bombs exploded, killing three and injuring 176. The camera at a Boylston Street Lord & Taylor directly across the street from one of the blasts, has given investigators clear video of the area, according to the unnamed official.

“The camera from Lord & Taylor is the best source of video so far,” said Dot Joyce, a spokeswoman for Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino told the Boston Globe. “All I know is that they are making progress.”

Earlier, Fox News learned that the circuit board suspected of being used to detonate the at least one of the bomb has been recovered, and that FBI investigators continue to scan and analyze the cell phone tower records to identify positive hits for signs of calls that may have triggered both explosions remotely.

According to a FBI and Department of Homeland Security bulletin, the evidence at this time supports just one pressure cooker used. Shrapnel in that device included nails, BBs and ball bearings. The main charge - possibly low explosive - has not been identified. The other device "was also housed in a metal container, but currently there is insufficient evidence to determine if it was also a pressure cooker. The fuse system and method of initiation for the two devices are unknown at this time."

Pressure cooker bombs have been used in high-profile bombings in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and have been touted in the Al Qaeda in Yemen's online propaganda magazine Inspire and in the "The Anarchist Cookbook."

[Hal-9000]

so when they say pressure cooker, they mean crock pots or slow cookers?

[Teh One Who Knocks]

so when they say pressure cooker, they mean crock pots or slow cookers?

No, pressure cookers are old school

http://i.imgur.com/BRIBTTT.jpg

It was used to cook things faster than usual

[redred]

Good for stews

[Hal-9000]

No, pressure cookers are old school

http://i.imgur.com/BRIBTTT.jpg

It was used to cook things faster than usual

hence the term I guess, thanks...


I watched the explosions yesterday on the news...they were a lot louder and contained more flames etc, than I expected. Similar to a movie explosion.
Had no idea one of those cooking things could house such a huge blast

[Muddy]

Good for stews

Good for infusing pork juice into greens..

[Teh One Who Knocks]

One story I have seen says the FBI will be holding a press conference at 5 PM EDT or just over 2 hours from now.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

And now another story says there has been no arrest, but a suspect has been identified :wtf:

[Hal-9000]

unrelated....but where has RBP been since this event happened?

He usually has some good insight on these tragedies..

[Acid Trip]

And now another story says there has been no arrest, but a suspect has been identified :wtf:

Seems like the story has been changing every few minutes.