in his vehicle, allegedly by the tsavraev brothers. joining us is the m.i.t. police chief and cambridge police chief. chief, you were telling me, only 58 officers on the m.i.t. police force. you must all know each other very, very well. that s correct. it s a small department. they are very tight. as one would expect. working together seven days a week. and sean collier, a terrific guy. born to be a police officer. born to be part of the community. yes. his brother told us yesterday at the funeral mass, he wanted to be a police officer since he was 7 years old. you know, there are numerous reasons why people come on the police department. but i think in his case, he wanted it like it was a vocation or calling. and the way he performed on the department, it definitely was the case. at this point, any more details about how he died? reports that the brothers
outside of the suspect s house which ma they ve just cordoned . why would they be doing that controlled explosion? well, i think you had a pretty good guess about it. under the circumstances, the scene is still hot. they have demonstrated the ability that they have explosive devices. if they have a strange object in front of them and the investigators need to get into that building or be around that object, they ll go ahead and blow it up before it blows them up. megyn: even understanding that that would sacrifice potentially a wealth of evidence, i mean, there any way to both protect the officers safety and preserve that evidence? i m sure that almost any jurisdiction but especially the boston law enforcement community is going to make sure that everybody goes home tonight that possibly can and even if we lose some evidence, that s the way it s going to be. megyn: yeah. amen. as we ve already seen, a law enforcement official kid from mit and another boston police
area and the incident with the first brother who has been killed went down. reporter: okay. let me quickly recap that for you. so around 11 p.m. i responded to the shots fired that mike tevin reported on on the record at mit. they got the alert throughout the school, and we followed that scene past the gas station where they had let the victim of the hijacking off. thethey were in a hot pursuit wh 30 or 40 police cars, more than 100 miles an hour. it culminated here on mount auburn street. i got out with my camera and followed the soldiers or law enforcement officers door to door, looking for anything. they apprehended a man who they late arrested. we don t know now whether he may be somehow tied to this situation. he did not resist, but it was
wake of killing three people in the boston marathon and a police officer at mit. there was some sort of incident near mit last night. the security officer approached these men and ultimately was killed. police say these two brothers killed them. they wound up carjacking a man, taking his s.u.v. that man runs into a 7-11 and says these guys are trying to kill me, help, help. they take off in the s.u.v. a police chase ensues. you heard griff jenkins talk about some of that. a shootout, they re throwing grenades out of the car. ungeier is exchanged and the older brother with the black baseball cap on the right side of your screen is killed. ever since then they ve been trying to track down the younger brother, and they re very interested in what he has to say. our own bret baier earlier shared information from sources at the national counterterrorism center indicating that at least one of these brothers may have posted videos on line, praising al-qaeda and its war on the
after the bombings. can you imagine? authorities are swarming the campus and there are reports that both the fbi and swat teams have been seen on the campus. a massachusetts state police armored truck arrived around 1 p.m., two helicopters were seen arriving earlier, and our own bill hemmer is live in boston. can i pick up with you where i left off with eric shawn? the gun fight that took place overnight that took the life of the older brother, is there any question at this hour whether the younger brother who is still at large was involved in that? reporter: that s not clear, and frankly, i cannot answer that. it s a working assumption that the two are working on it together. in part, based on what the eyewitness said on the carjacking of that mercedes suv, he was one of the best witnesses in all of this. what i also don t know, megyn, is what this dead security officer from mit s campus, what