bleeding out. my offices were completely tied up rendering him aid. they add medic, one of our officers is a medic, trying to get him into the ambulance. at the same time, officers that came in from surrounding communities, had confronted that gentleman. and one thing led to another. and they keyed in on him. the concern was, if he had a device, explosive device. he turned out to be not any individual that we were looking for. but officers needed to be safe at the same time. right. chief deveau, let me repeat again, my gratitude for everyone in boston and america, it was an extraordinary effort by your team. remarkable bravery throughout the week. i m just glad you finally got these people where they should be. one obvious died. but the other one in custody. and hopefully brought to justice. thank you, again. thank you, sir. when we come back, the
there is no word yet on whether or not he can communicate. but for deval patrick spoke outside of fenway park yesterday afternoon. offered us some details. hi and i think all the law enforcement professionals are hoping for a host of reasons that the suspect survives. because we have a million questions. and the questions need to be, need to be answered. there are parts of the investigation in terms of information and evidence that still needs to be run to ground. so in that sense the investigation will continue. reporter: we do know that the suspect lost blood in the course of the hunt for him, because watertown police chief edward deveau mentioned that there were pools of blood pound in the watertown community as they were looking for the suspect. word today on the mbta officer severely wounded and is hospitalized in critical condition. there will be a press conference later this
with the watertown, massachusetts, police chief, edward deveau. he is telling us about the bloody gun battle thursday night that left one of the suspects dead. we had pipe bombs and explosives. during the exchange something got thrown at my police officers and we now find out it s exact bomb that blew up at the marathon on monday. pressure cooker? we find the pressure cooker embedded in the car down the street. there s a major explosion during this gunfight of my six of my officers that i m extremely proud of. heroic. my heart is out to the m.i.t. officer and his family but how the watertown police aren t attending a funeral of our own based on what happened on that street over that period of time is just talent, guts and glory that my officers did.
shooting what? handguns and a long arm in the law. we are not sure, still piecing that together. he is under direct fire, very close by. he has to jam it in reverse and try to get himself a little distance. the younger brother? my police officer. so the two brothers are shooting at my first police officer that responded and now, within seconds, i have two or three other police officers that pull up. we had just finished shift so two off-duty officers on their way home heard the call. so, i have six police officers in this very tight area engaged in gun fight. we estimate there was over 200 shots fired over a ten five to t10-minute period. we learned how police tracked the suspects location after they carjacked a man. more with the police chief, edward deveau, when we come back. and within budget. angie s list members can tell you which provider is the best in town.
we said at the press conference last night. we have to find out more about this. we will as the days go on. there s a lot of hard work that s already gone into it. i think it moved quickly. and it is great. before we wrap up, i just want to say the support that i ve gotten at the watertown police department, boston police department and all of law enforcement from local across the country, across the world. we have so many people reaching out to us. the streets of watertown were lined with people as we left the scene. it was just so moving to see support we have and i want to thank the people the watertown, greater boston area and across the country of support we ve gotten. police chief, thanks for your excellent work. thanks for what you did. we appreciate it not only here in the boston area but nationally indeed around the world people are watching all over the world right now. we really appreciate what you ve done. thank you very much. i really appreciate it. thanks for bringi