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"Second officer down, hand grenades and automatic gunfire."

In Watertown, Spruce and Lincoln.

http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6254/web

To expand, there was an armed carjacking in Cambridge by two men. The carjacking victim escaped after a half hour. Lojack on the car led officers to Watertown. When officers found the car, reports of shots fired, explosions / grenades and a running gun battle.

Update: one suspect reportedly in custody en route to hospital. Sounds like second suspect has been taken into custody as well. Later update: NOT clear that second suspect is in custody.

Edit: Rough location of the armed confrontation where the suspect(s) were taken into custody and the second officer was reported down. https://maps.google.com/maps?q=spruce+st,+Cambridge,+MA&...

Thanks for adding more details. It's hard to keep the updates going.

Update (1:41am est): Does not seem like second suspect is currently in custody...

Sounds like most of the Watertown stuff moved to a different channel to free up regular traffic. Do you know how to stream that?

It's still working on the same link...

http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/6254/web

Some people are having trouble getting it to load. 50k listeners - that may be higher than when I was listening after the bombing - try a couple different windows and refreshing. Once connected it's very clear audio (I've been listening flawlessly for over 30 minutes).

Not sure about other mirrors but they must exist. Edit: Here's a mirror - http://tunein.com/radio/Boston-Police-Fire-and-EMS-Scanner-s...

The stream is working for me, it's just that a lot of the radio traffic about Watertown has moved to "channel 1"

Being able to hear this happen in real time is surreal.

Something big definitely just happened. I have never seen so many police cars drive so fast in the same direction. They were all heading north on Mass Ave from me, which is consistent with that location.

The feed is no longer working for me, maybe too much traffic? Does anyone know of a live transcript?

http://webchat.freenode.net/ ##bostonscanner

http://tunein.com/radio/Boston-Police-Fire-and-EMS-Scanner-s...

Second suspect may be in custody: https://twitter.com/intent/user?screen_name=SeanKellyTV

If scanner link stopped working for you, try http://www.hack3r.com/ocyrus/bostonscanner.m3u

Similar information available at the Tech twitter stream: https://twitter.com/thetech

Live WHDH coverage

Streaming video:

http://www1.whdh.com/video/7newslive

Live WCVB coverage

Streaming video:

http://livewire.wcvb.com/Event/117th_Running_of_Boston_Marat...

UPDATE: -------

[1] Image of Suspect #1 lying on the ground earlier suspected to have explosives underneath his clothing.

[2] Took into custody only after fully undressing.

[3] Was put in police vehicle naked.

https://twitter.com/bruce_arthur/status/325118401544605697/p...

Isn't this insane?

I'm watching http://www1.whdh.com/video/7newslive muted along with the police scanner. I cannot believe these crazy TV news people...

I believe news 7 did a live report in front of the family's home of a person that died at the marathon...at 11pm. They really are heartless.

Surely.

Moments ago, WCVB had a live shot of the suspect lying on the ground arms stretched in front of him on the asphalt with police officers guns drawn but receding from him.

He may have warned them of detonating possible explosives on him.

Update:

GABE RAMIREZ (CNN Photojournalist)

Suspect was taken into custody after disrobing fully.

Suspect was put in the police vehicle "fully undressed."

"Thin darker skinned individual"

Well, you are watching.

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