Watertown Police Chase: Gunfire, Explosions Reported

Roald said:

the obvious answer to all this is more guns!

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Boston Bomb Suspect's Dad Tells Him to Surrender, Warns ' Hell Will Break Loose' if Son Dies

The father of suspected Boston Marathon bomber called on his son today to give up peacefully, but warned the U.S. that if his son is killed "all hell will break loose."

Anzor Tsarnaev spoke to ABC News from his home in the Russian city of Makhachkala as Boston police carried out an intense dragnet for his son Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, survived a running gun battle with police during the night that left an MIT security officer dead and a Boston cop badly wounded. His older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in the shootout.

The father said he spoke to his sons by phone earlier this week. "We talked about the bombing. I was worried about then," Anzor Tsarnaev said.

He said his sons reassured him, saying, "Everything is good, Daddy. Everything is very good."

The elder Tsarnaev insisted that his sons were innocent, but said he would appeal to his son to "surrender peacefully."

"Give up. Give up. You have a bright future ahead of you. Come home to Russia," the dad said.

The father warned, however, "If they killed him, then all hell would break loose."

"If they kill my second child, I will know that it is an inside job, a hit job. The police are to blame," the father told ABC News. "Someone, some organization is out to get them."

The father said his two daughters, ages 22 and 24, live in New York.

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is now described as willing to die in a battle with police, was more striking for taking acting classes, advanced placement courses and being a star athlete with lots of friends in high school.

"He never seemed out of the ordinary at all," high school classmate Sierra Schwartz told "Good Morning America" today. "This is not someone who seemed troubled in high school or shy. He was just one of us. It's very weird."

Steven Owens told ABC News, "I met him when I was in seventh grade and he was just a great kid. He was fun to be around. Very studious, very smart. I don't remember a time when he was ever having trouble in school. He was a great athlete. Great to be around."

Owens said Tsarnaev "always had a positive attitude," but had expressed some political opinions in school.

"He always thought the war [Iraq, Afghanistan] was stupid," Owens said. "He didn't enjoy the idea of war. We didn't really talk about it much. The only time it ever really came up was when we were learning about it in school."

When Owens first saw authorities' photos of Tsarnaev, he wasn't positive it was him since he hadn't seen him in a few years.

"I started looking through my yearbook because I thought I recognized him and there he was," Owens said. "I was just so surprised."

Students at UMass Dartmouth are being evacuated from their dorms, following confirmation that Tsarnaev lived in the Pinedale residence hall.

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The search for Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, Mass., has effectively shut down Boston and its surrounding cities today, including Watertown, Mass., where his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in an overnight shootout.

Boston is on lockdown and police are engaged in a large operation in Watertown.

Law enforcement sources tell ABC News the suspects are believed to be brothers are of Chechen ethnicity and their family came from the semi-autonomous Russian province of Dagestan. A law enforcement source confirmed that at least one of the brothers is a legal permanent resident in the United States.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was born in Kyrgyzstan, a law enforcement source citing State Department documents told ABC News. The brothers are believed to have spent time there.

Schwartz went to Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School with Dzhokhar, who is now the target of a massive police dragnet.

She recognized him immediately when she saw his photo released by authorities.

"I was like, 'Wow, that looks just like Dzhokhar…," she said. She then noticed that his Facebook page had been deleted.

Schwartz knew he went to college, but did not remember where. She last saw him in Cambridge in the summer of 2011 before starting college. She was not aware that he had a brother.

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ApolloBalboa said:

They have the uncle in an interview on tv right now, and it's amazing how stupid some of the reporters are. "Is this revenge for Chechnya?" "How do you feel about America?" "Why did they choose to come to Cambridge?" "Are you ashamed?" "When did you last speak with them?" "Where were they born?" I hear those questions being repeated over and over, even after he's answered them, and seriously, "are you ashamed?" What do you think he's going to say on live tv, "No, I think they're doing God's work"? He's human, just like the rest of us, of course he's ashamed at how members of his family have now brought him into the limelight unwillingly.

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ApolloBalboa said:

They have the uncle in an interview on tv right now, and it's amazing how stupid some of the reporters are. "Is this revenge for Chechnya?" "How do you feel about America?" "Why did they choose to come to Cambridge?" "Are you ashamed?" "When did you last speak with them?" "Where were they born?" I hear those questions being repeated over and over, even after he's answered them, and seriously, "are you ashamed?" What do you think he's going to say on live tv, "No, I think they're doing God's work"? He's human, just like the rest of us, of course he's ashamed at how members of his family have now brought him into the limelight unwillingly.

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Iceman322 said:

Invade Chechnya or Kyrgyzstan or wherever the fuck they're from. We're out of Iraq and getting out of Afghanistan soon so we need another war

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alexpnz said:

The young one will NEVER be taken alive.

He will either kill himself of GET himself killed.

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Iceman322 said:

The suspect's Twitter page. Crazy how he's been tweeting since the bombing on Monday
https://twitter.com/J_tsar

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SabrinaDeep said:

Are you sure this is the guy's Twitter? One year in the US and he speaks better English+slang than me? Alright.

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animus fox said:

It turns out their family immigrated here in 2002.

He's alive and taken into custody.

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SabrinaDeep said:

Ok, so he didn't reach the US one year ago. Then that makes sense.

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