it s very tense. i m 50 to 100 yards away. i m watching what s going on. a lot of movement down here. a lot of the state troopers, all the police officers that were on scene all day long inside the perimeter were being relieved and many of them were re-routed right here a few blocks away into this area. where the shots were fired. bob, i just want to tell you what we are seeing here. we are seeing families being evacuated. escorted by police down the street in a very calm manner but moving along at a very good clip as well. obviously in the vicinity of the shots where the shots were fired and what you heard. we had an eyewitness just tell jared holbrook 20 thoughts you say 30 shots. quite a bit. it was a lot. i wasn t counting them. it was a lot. it was a lot of shots. just as if fire crackers getting lit off. a whole roll of fire crackers. that s what it sounded like. it was a lot. when i say 30 don t take it literally but it was a lot of shots being fired. a barrage of gunfire.
heather that the suspect is down. let s go to bob ward who is standing by now. what do you make of this, bob? well, i heard the gunshot. it had to be about 30 shots. there was a rapid fire barrage. just like a roll of fire crackers getting shot off. and we were it s just about a block away from where we were doing our live shot. we are still on arsenal street. over near franklin street right now. and when we pulled up, we see looking at right all kinds of police to the area running to the scene. had their hands on their hips where they would have their guns overhead. there is a state police hospital overhead monitoring the situation. so, heavy police presence here. people here on the street just neighbors here are reacting to this. they think that suspect number two has been found.
it was 15 minutes ago right after the press conference ended. allowing people to get outdoors again. the ban was lifted on people having to stay indoors. talking to a few neighbors. i was just actually doing an interview about one of them what it was like being indoors for the last 24 hours or so when we heard probably about 10 to 20 if not more gunshots go off. we stopped, we ran over here, we saw police flooding the scene. a lot of movement. we seen a constant stream of police cars with their sirens on, rushing towards what would appear to be the site, about a mile west of us. we re kind of being held in place right now. we can t go anywhere. we are on lockdown. yeah, it was pretty intense there. shepard: chris, boston has now returned to a state of alert as well. the city police department here in boston proper has sent out a tweet asking all boston residents to shelter in place as they ask them to do all day. and, frankly, they respected that request and did so. can you tell by
amazing turn of events moments after the state police make the announcement that they are going to resume the search in another way. i heard shots fired. as many as 30 shots fired just down the street just a few blocks away from where our police have been searching for this suspect number 2 for hours. my sources are telling me that they do not have this person yet. but that he is still alive. suspect number 2. i have another source saying that he is surrounded. they have got him cornered. we have got another standoff here. arsenal street in watertown. i m a good distance away from where the events are taking place but the police have moved the press back substantially. and we re keeping an eye on it. there is a very fluid situation air wing of the massachusetts state police is up over the scene. there is dozens of police on the scene. there is an ambulance right next to me. boston e.m.s. not too far away. we are all just now waiting for this to be over. it appears this may be resolving
ban. they came out to hear the gunshots fired. some 20 to 30 gunshots. the sounds reminiscent when we heard earlier this morning gun battle with 200 gunshots fired and the death of suspect number 1. right now we know suspect number 2 is alive. he is surrounded. he is still moving. we know he was possibly hiding in a boat at 67 franklin street and we know there is a big police presence. everyone has moved from their other scenes to this scene and what a scene for the neighbors of frank lib street here in watertown. certain solid a major scene as the developments developing rapidly here right now as we have law enforcement from all over descending on this neighborhood in water town. we talked with with mary sullivan an eyewitness who said she was getting out because the lockdown had been lifted and she went out and was going to take thing to for a walk as they often do and suddenly heard the gunfire and knew things