And to think I just landed here. Fuck me.
EDIT- Don't worry about me, I'm safe. The hotel I'm in is far from MIT. Any other members in the Boston area, are you guys okay?
Fine here. I live far enough away, that I don't think he'll be anywhere near where I live.
I'm a grad student at MIT, and the location of the (MIT) incident is on my walk home. I was working late today. If I had left 30 minutes later...
*has a shot of whisky*
Stay safe dude.
EDIT:
Okay, so I was just talking with my mom, and this is the story as she's heard it from local news sources:
Apparently the two guys robbed a store, and then shot the MIT officer and stole his car. They then proceeded to later carjack another person, who wound up getting away. Police found them and started after them in a car chase, with them throwing makeshift bombs from the car at police officers. That led to a shootout in Watertown where a MBTA cop was injured. They captured one suspect, but he died of blast wounds, which they are not sure if they were intentional or sustained when throwing bombs at police. The second suspect is still at large and they are urging businesses to stay closed and people to stay indoors as much as 2 towns over from the incident.
EDIT 2:
Was listening to WBZ news radio on my way into work. According to them the two men involved in this are believed by the FBI to be the two men who set off the bombs at the Boston Marathon. They supposedly identified the one who died as matching one of the suspects.