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Watertown Patch: Four Bombing Suspects in Custody Friday

Patch's sister site reports that authorities have captured Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev alive, and arrested three additional suspects in New Bedford, MA.

Editor's note: This article has been updated for clarity; the man apprehended is a suspect in the cases related to the bombing at the 2013 Boston Marathon and the Thursday night police activity.

Crowds cheered in Watertown, MA, as Police rolled by after detaining the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing--reported to be Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge--after a stand-off in a Watertown, MA, backyard.

that elsewhere tonight, three additional people have been taken into custody in New Bedford as part of the terror investigation.

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After 102 hours of terror, mourning, striving and struggle, police have killed one and captured the second marathon bomber suspect, Watertown Patch reported Friday. With both of the suspected bombers accounted for, law enforcement believe they have nabbed the men responsible for the deadliest domestic bombing attack in the 21st century.

A hair-raising Thursday night/Friday morning chase and firefight led to the death of MIT Police Officer Sean Collier, the shooting of Transit Police officer Richard Donohue, a dead suspect and another in handcuffs. Along the way, nearly one million Greater Boston residents were trapped in their homes as the suspects tossed explosives engaged in heavy arms fire with police, and finally (after one was killed) the survivor barricaded himself in a Watertown house.

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Watertown residents, just after the day-long "shelter in place" order had been lifted, were again asked to stay indoors as shots were fired in the area Friday evening. 

A resident of Watertown reported a guy had crawled under a boat and police and SWAT officers moved in on the location. About a dozen shots were fired in the vicinity, including possible "flash grenades," intended to stun and disorient the suspect.

Investigators spent much of Friday searching for the second suspect in Watertown following a chaotic night that left the first suspect dead, and seven communities around Boston locked down, affecting about one million people.

The Associated Press is reporting the surviving Boston bomb suspect is identified as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge.

Watertown Patch shared video of a sweep search of the men's home, and live reported the day-long manhunt after the men allegedly carjacked a man in his vehicle and drove to Watertown, where police confronted them, killing one man, suspected bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

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