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Interesting. here's a little more of what we know. pete reported on part of this earlier. the 7-eleven robbery takes place a few blocks on the north street and cambridge where the two brothers lived. robbed the 7-eleven. they then shoot the m.i.t. campus police officer, who is in his car. the reasoning we're told is he, they probably thought that the police officer recognized them from their photographs being published everywhere and up on the tv screens everywhere and hours earlier by the fbi in the afternoon. they carjack an individual who is driving a mercedes suv. authorities know who the ...

Attack not to have been a suicide bombing. that indicates that there were more plans. if you look at this carjaing tonight, it's very clear that this car was hijacked over at m.i.t. where the shootingf the policeman occurred on the m.i.t. campus. they were taking this, it was a black suv mercedes. they were stoppingy the convenience store trying to get gas to get out of town. that's when they pushed t owner of the vehicle out. that's when he ran in, as was reported, into the convenience store and began his tale and said, call 911. call 911. this was a huge break. it's not clear wre they were h...

There are reports of explosions and gunfire in watertown, massachusetts. this after earlier reports of violence in nearby cambridge, massachusetts, where an m.i.t. campus police officer was fatally shot this evening. nbc news' kerry sanders is live on the scene in watertown with the latest. what can you tell us about what's happening there tonight? >> reporter: well, things have certainly calmed down for a moment. the anxiety was quite high. the officers are still pushing people out of the way. the anxiety is relatively down. the officers chased over here, about 15 miles an hour if you were dr...

We have new video we have for you. i believe it is pictures of the shootout. let's listen in. >> you can hear the gunshots being fired. that is courtesy of wcvb. we don't know if this is close to the m.i.t. campus or later o e in watertown. but explosive s thrn from a car, u0 gunshots fir a wild, wild situation. once again, with a convenience store robbery, the shooting, the fatal shooting of a. campus police officer and a wild police chase and carjacking that went to watertown and ended with one suspect dead and her spect fleeing from

They were holding him at gunpoint from about 10 feet. so they had him... in a firm position down, but they were very worried about the explosives and i think that they held him as much as i could see, trying not to let the police not push me too far back. but i could see that they were holding the situation into control he was not giving any resistance. >> griff, you mentioned you were on the m.i.t. campus earlier. have you heard anything more about that initial shooting? you know, what started all of this? >> no. i do not. no. i have a source that is on the faculty. he showed me an alert, a n...