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Summerville police department. i hope posthumously that comes out of it, he's allowed to get that other banl because he was a great kid. he was a terrific kid. >> bill, you were texting last night as this news was developing. you felt right away this was it, with the first reports coming in from m.i.t. >> i did. lawrence, first name that popped in my head was officer tippett after the kennedy assassination and running across, you know, a jittery assassin and unfortunately being the first person to run into him, i fear that may be what happened last night after the revelation of the photos and ...

He was a terrific kid. >> bill, you were texting last night as this news was developing. you felt right away this was it, with the first reports coming in from m.i.t. >> i did. lawrence, first name that popped in my head was officer tippett after kennedy assassination, running across a jittery assassin, being the first to run into him, i fear maybe what happened last night after the revelation of the photos and everything, it just -- the sequence of me hit me in the gut, it was so unusual to happen on an m.i.t. campus, of all places, kendall square. it didn't add up to me. law enforcement did ...

They released two fophotos of t two suspects. late that night around 10:30 there was reports of shots fired on the m.i.t. campus. necessity found an officer killed in his car. then there was a carjacking in cambridge. they chased them to watertown andy engaged them in a shootout. that's when they found out they were the suspected marathon bombers. the older brother, the suspect's older brother was shot and killed during that. they actually found that he was wearing an ied on his chest. the younger brother, the 19-year-old that is now in the hospital and under arrest was able to flee the scene....

Of killing an m.i.t. campus police officer, 26-year-old sean collier, who was sitting in his patrol car. now, police are hoping that the surviving suspect, that 19-year-old who is in serious condition, they hope that he will be able to give them some critical information about a possible motive and whether more people were involved. nbc's kate ty tur joins me from boston. katy, what's the scene like today? >> reporter: today there's still a police presence here. we still have the crime scene on boylston street still closed off. a good part of the city is still closed off. in terms of relief, t...

Yesterday evening. suspect number one and suspect number two. they asked the public for help in identifying them and tracking them down. that was 5:20 p.m. yesterday. by 7:08 nbc's pete williams was reporting that the fbi was getting calls from people claiming to know the identity of the suspects. at 7:18 someone posted this high resolution photo to an online running forum that appeared to show one of the suspects leaving the scene just after the explosions. that new photo quickly went viral. by 11:13 p.m. that photo had been verified with the "new york times" reporting it had been taking by a...