i m sure the s.w.a.t. teams bargained for. but thank you for your firsthand reporting, from your firsthand reporting tonight. scott yount from new england cable news. thank you very much. kate snow has been in watertown tonight. and kate, tomorrow it seems to me gets very interesting because while the temptation tonight, and who can blame them, is to be happy. there was a resolution tonight. we ve got a suspect. he s in serious condition. he s in the hospital. that cloud of oh, my goodness, all of these victims stay with us, they stay in the lives of boston, and then the investigation gets underway in earnest. reporter: right. and let s not forget both of those things. the investigators are going to have a huge task ahead of them. we ve been talking to former fbi officials who say, look, they re going to have to now go through and sift through all of that evidence that they gathered. we saw them taking computers and other evidence out of homes over the course of today and yesterday.
all that time we could hear a single officer yelling to him, yelling the suspect s name and he would say you are hurt. you need a doctor. you need to give yourself up. come out with your hands up. scott, i have to tell you we heard a negotiator was going in and i was amazed there was still a living suspect to be negotiated with after those two volleys of gunfire. i don t quite understand what transpired. yeah. we haven t been able to find that out exactly. but what i can tell you is that it was an amazing to see all these law enforcement officials work so professionally, in concert, in tandem, with the officials that were calling the shots about what they were doing to go in and isolate the suspect. because, brian, as you know, they really wanted to take this guy alive. and they did. it seems they did. it seemed that this one aspect, at least, everything worked. we were very fortunate tonight. scott, you heard way more than
you need a doctor. you need to give yourself up. come out with your hands up. and scott, i have to tell you, we heard a negotiator was going in, and i was amazed there was still a living suspect to be negotiated with after those two volleys of gunfire. i don t quite understand what transpired. yeah. we haven t been able to find out exactly. but what i can tell you is it was amazing to see all of these law enforcement officials work so professionally in concert, in tandem with the officials that were calling the shots about what they were doing to go in and isolate the suspect because as you know they wanted to take this guy alive and they did. it seems they did. it seemed that this one aspect, at least, everything worked. we were fortunate tonight.
we have been relying heavily on the coverage of one of our sister networks new england cable news during this entire crisis in the boston area and tonight one of their reporters, scott yount got closer than the others and heard a lot as this unfolded. scott, where were you and you could actually hear the s.w.a.t. teaming to talk to the suspect, correct? yeah, brian, we were behind the house where they had converged initially. and we saw the firefight. there were a number of shots fired. they were firing at the suspect. apparently he was firing back according to some police officers that i spoke to. then we saw the flash bombs going off, the flash-bangs, i believe they are called. they were trying to stun him and
we have been relying heavily on the coverage of one of our sister networks new england cable news during this entire crisis in the boston area, and tonight one of their reporters, scott yount, got closer than the others and heard a lot as this unfolded. scott, where were you, and you could actually hear the s.w.a.t. teams at least trying to talk to the suspect, correct? yeah, brian. we were behind the the house where they had converged initially. and we saw the firefight. there were a number of shots fired. they were firing at the suspect. apparently, he was firing back according to some police officers that i spoke to. then we saw the flash bombs going off, or the flash-bangs, i believe they are called. they were trying to stun him. and all that time we could hear a single officer yelling to him, yelling the suspect s name and he would say, you re hurt.