Boston lived through a night of terror as police chased two individuals believed to be behind Monday's Boston Marathon bombings across the city.
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The pair shot and killed an MIT campus police officer and left another transportation police official gravely wounded, according to a Middlesex County DA release.
Here are some images from the night.
An shot from the MIT crime scene was posted to Twitter by the school's student newspaper:
Soon after (or before according to other reports) "Suspect 2" allegedly attempted to rob a 7-Eleven, as captured in this image:
Next the suspects apparently hijacked a Mercedes SUV at gunpoint. The driver was held in the car but eventually dropped off unhurt, according to the DA.
But it led to a cross-town police pursuit from Cambridge into Watertown. There was gunfire and explosions, thought to be from improvised explosive devices.
Suspect 1 was killed in the police standoff, though the DA does not specify when this occured.
Read the full DA release here >
Here are images from the pre-dawn crime scene in Watertown:
Hospital officials who treated Suspect 1 suggested he may have been wearing an explosive device, although they would not confirm this.
Suspect 2 managed to escape.
He is now being hunted in a 20-block vicinity in Watertown.
Here are images from the scene there:
Twitter user Shawna England posted this alleged image, evidently from a window:
The scene at School and Walnut streets:
Military Police arrive in armoured vehicles at the parking lot of the Arsenal Mall:
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