black, suv, shooting down our street, which is laurel street, and they were shooting westward all right. this is a briefing right now taking place. let s listen in. massachusetts state police. all public transportation service on the mbta system, that is buses and subway. so all public transit services through the mbta have been meetly suspended. we are hoping that as we proceed through the next number of hours that we will be able to turn back on portions of the system, but the system has been shut down now as a safety measure. people that are at subway stations or bus stops, we are asking them to go home. we do not want people congregatcongregat congregating and waiting for the system to come back on. so we re asking people, do not go out to the bus stations, subway stations.
are they ideologically connected to a jihadist group? time will tell. earlier, andrew kitzenberg, an eye witness to the shoot-out in watertown, talked to brian williams, let s listen. i went to the window, right outside of our apartment, there were two shooters in between a sedan and a black mercedes benz suv and they were in between these two cars, taking cover behind the black suv, shooting down our street, which is laurel street and they were shooting westward. towards what looked to be about six, six to ten watertown police department vehicles. and they were shooting about, what seemed to be 70 to 80 yards down the street. utilizing handguns. while they were engaging in gun fire, they were also using explosives. it looked to resemble a pressure cooker. what i ve seen from other pictures online in the last few
right outside of our apartment there were two shooters in between a sedan and a black mercedes-benz suv. they were in between these two cars taking cover behind the black suv, shooting down our street, which is laurel street. they were shooting westward, which looked to be about six to ten watertown police army vehicles. they were shooting about what seemed to be 70 to 80 yards down the street utilizing handguns. while they were engaging in gunfire, they were also using explosives. it looked to resemble a pressure cooker, from what i ve seen from other pictures online in the last few days. i saw them light this bomb. they threw it towards the officers, and it only got maybe 15 to 20 yards down, so it wasn t very close to the officers, but it really created a significant decoy. there was smoke that covered our