this does turn out to be somehow connected. well, you are right, marianne, and we just don t know that. right now the police are not concerned with patterns. they are concerned with fire power and they are determined to find that other individual if there is just one. and if it leads them to the bombers from the boston marathon , all the good. if it is unrelated and independent of that, and they still catch this guy, all the good. you have a neighborhood terrified and a massive amount of government fire power descending on this thaib in the middle of the night on this neighborhood in the middle night to keep this neighborhood safe and free, free from a monster with enough ammunition to kill innocents. the police are in the most dangerous of situations imaginable. they don t know what they are confronting. they know they are confronting a human being armed to the tee