UPDATE 11:39 AM: It is NOT CLEAR why the Boston PD stated on scanners that Sunil Tripathi was in the area last night. WE DO NOT KNOW WHY THIS OCCURRED OR THE BACKGROUND.
UPDATE 8:56 AM: Reported as alternate name Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
BOSTON POLICE SCANNER: MIKE MULUGETA IS DEAD
3:06 AM: SUNIL TRIPATHI NAMED AS ONE OF THE SUSPECTS BY THE BOSTON POLICE. MIKE MULUGETA NAMED AS THE OTHER.
CONFIRMED 2:26: ONE OF THE ARRESTED IN THE MIT/WATERTOWN SHOOTINGS IS ONE OF THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBERS.
UPDATE 1:01 am EST: Holy shit, something's happening at MIT. Three officers shot and two "Middle Eastern" Men firing at them with police and grenades.
There has been speculation, mostly kicked off by Reddit that missing Ivy League student Sunil Tripathi could be involved in the Boston bombing. He went missing last month without a trace. The FBI became involved in the case, even though it was a presumed suicide.
Tripathi was a philosophy major at Brown University, not far from Boston, where the search expanded to. His father is a rich software engineer.
Right after he went missing, explosives were found near Brown University and destroyed in a controlled detonation. No one had been found behind it. The location is halfway between Brown and Boston.
The first incident was reported at 8:34 p.m. on March 12. Police and fire personnel responded to the area of Pine Street and Tower Hill Drive. Witnesses at the nearby Target store on Washington Street reported seeing a bright flash and hearing two explosions from that area.His former classmate was a bit freaked out by the whole thing:
Several unexploded devices were found at the scene and later detonated under secure conditions by the State Police Bomb Squad.
The second incident was a few days later at 7:49 p.m. on March 15. The second incident was near the first, in the area of Hearthstone and Fieldstone lanes. The area was searched but no explosives were found.
His original Facebook profile was pretty standard fare, though the site meant to find him has gone offline.
Now there is speculation that he may have been in Boston on Monday.
Weird.
UPDATE 3:37 AM.... Weird stuff from his family on Twitter before the bombing. Were they in on it?
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lol reddit
ReplyDeleteExactly what I was thinking lol.
DeleteWho's laughing now?
DeleteSUUUUUCK IT!!! REDDIT FTMFW!
Deletereddit was right
DeleteChe Guevara t-shirt... that's all the evidence I need to call him guilty as sin.
DeleteFuck reddit 4chan had this for days
DeleteBy the looks of all that is going on, and what the Bible has to say, don't you all think you should ask Jesus into your lives.
DeleteThese guys Arabs?
DeleteNo, he is a Hindu :(
DeleteAshamed to say he is one of us :(
Fuck your evil Jesus...
Deleteprobably teabaggers
Deletehttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/BINA3ESCEAAVKXW.png:large
DeleteThat's an Indian Hindu. The other guy Mike also looks like Indian but his last name is Ethiopian (African)
DeleteThe suspect is Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev. NOT Sunil Tripathi.
Deletehttp://www.businessinsider.com/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-2013-4
reddit, i'm afraid, has turned out to be wrong.
DeleteI think you all owe this family an apology. The suspect was identified as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, aged 19. This family shouldn't be harrassed like this! No wonder this man is depressed!!! SHAME ON ALL OF YOU!!!
DeleteEPIC FAIL !!!!!!
DeleteMike Mulugeta was not killed by the police. The correct name for the killed victim is Tamerlan Tsarnaev. He is the older brother of Dzhokhar. PUNDIT PRESS = CNN & NYPOST.
DeleteWow. 6 hours later and there's still misinformation posted. Way to go.
DeleteDisgusted !! Check your Facts before you put some poor guy in the spotlight thats totally inocent ... I Agree ,,, SHAME ON YOU ALL !!!
DeleteCATCH THIS MAN
ReplyDeleteSomething is wrong here. The link to the explosives story has nothing to do with Brown University. I'm local and can't make any sense of it.
ReplyDeleteThere are no streets in the Brown area with those names. Hanover? Massachusetts or New Hampshire, perhaps, but not in Rhode Island.
^ Agreed. The explosives they found near Target was in Hanover, MA - nearly an hour Northeast of Providence.
DeleteHanover: http://www.hanoverfiredept.com/illegal-explosive-devices
DeleteThose streets are in ri but they are in cranston
DeleteYeah something isn't right. There is a Pine St. in Providence which is somewhat near Brown University, and there is a Washington St down town Providence. But there is no Target store. They are taking an incident that happened in Hanover , MA with the same street names and tying it into happening in Providence, which isn't the case.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to the help find Sanil fb page?? Its now gone, was just reading it at 10:00 pm
ReplyDeleteFB must have taken it down.
DeleteHis family made it private because they were receiving tons of nasty messages.
DeletePlease respect his family and stop speculating.
dads a software developer, he crashed it lol
Deletehttps://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZV3mzBFI_ngJ:https://www.facebook.com/pages/Help-Us-Find-Sunil-Tripathi/403275636436466%3Ffref%3Dts+https://www.facebook.com/pages/Help-Us-Find-Sunil-Tripathi/&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
Deletei found it in a cache
Deletehe is in custody - no need to speculate !
DeleteSunil isnt in custody- anyways custody doesnt mean guilty
DeleteHe went missing on the 16th. At least get the timeline right!
ReplyDeleteThis speculative name-shaming is SO WRONG and must incredibly painful for the family of the missing person. If you have a lead, contact the police. Do not throw this man's name around before anyone has been found guilty. Learn from the NY Post, who severely disrupted the lives of completely innocent people that were mislabeled as "suspects" in the Boston bombings.
ReplyDeleteSeriously. Not to mention he's been missing for months and his family has to see this. People just want to speculate, but until it's proven nothing like this should be published, in my opinion anyway. Especially because he's missing. And it's just like the first picture that was circulating of the "suspect" that was totally wrong. Poor kids scared to leave his house and all he did was attended the marathon.
DeleteIt is just as bad or worse (many more people are slandered) to link the event to a certain group, like Conservatives or Christians, at this time. Even if those involved call themselves Conservatives or Christians, that doesn't make it so. Get ready for the hate-fest against Conservatives by Liberals.
DeleteOf course. Conservatives and Christian terrorists never, ever, ever, ever kill people with bombs and bullets.
DeleteLet's just assume it's EVIL MUSLIMS. That's fine. They're evil.
But get ready for the hatefest against completely innocent right wing people.
ya ok i'll just stop watching the news and ignore every piece of circumstantial evidence that leads me to believe it is him.
DeleteWhat circumstantial evidence? LOL are you fucking retarded?
DeleteHow about the evidence where the police identified him as the second bomber who is still at large? It's him. This is like a movie.
DeleteMore people will be looking for him when he's wanted, if he turns out innocent atleast he will be found.
DeleteYes definitely has nothing to do with one another. I live in ri and there was never a controlled bomb detonation.. And to get info from reddit... Lol hm.
ReplyDeleteWRONG, BITCH.
Deleteyes because your clearly informed of everything that happens
DeleteGuy fits the criteria Che Guevarra shirt. He is definitely not a True American. Goes underground to make bombs, and punish America for its prosperity. The only thing that can defeat America is itself. Not little douchebags making bombs to bring misery to us. I worry about the youth of mankind there minds are being plagued by music and mostly the idiocy of adults. Islam isnt 600 years behind, its the foolishness followed by examples. The downfall of man will be corruption of greed. For the atheists of this world you all must be more intelligent then Albert Einstein who at his limits was an a agnostic. Keep your feeble minded thoughts of biology to yourself and enjoy the comfort of freedom of personal thought. One thing America must change is the death penalty. Sometimes the past has more prevalence then the future.
ReplyDeleteYour tinfoil hat is looking a bit ragged. Time for a new one.
DeleteEinstein was a Pantheist, he believed that nature IS God, and that we all comprise it. Richard Dawkins calls Pantheism "sexed-up Atheism." Actually, it's the synthesis of Theism and Atheism.
DeleteSeriously... Dangerous set of thoughts! America is almost the more country in the world (debts!!!). Freedom here is an illusion. You are free to shut your mouth if ever you don't agree with the government. Internet and the medias are censured. You are mind controlled. How can you still trust the institution after all the lies that have been told to cover dirty dirty things. You are part of the problem for having a brain, and not using it.
DeleteYou might want to try the heavy duty aluminum foil. And you should probably use at least an entire roll.
DeleteMost young people who wear Che Guevarra t-shirts don't even know who Che Guevarra is. It's just "trendy" to wear those stupid shirts... These two were classic frat boys, IMO.
DeleteCan't be!...they were supposed to be white. Not foreign terrorists wearing a left wing Che shirt. Does not compute!
Delete"plauged by music" wtf does that mean. You have a very sterile fragile mindset dont you?
DeleteHe's been missing for 4 weeks. He was seen alive on a surveillance camera after he disappeared. The facebook site just went down 30 minutes ago. Classmates on twitter say it is him.
ReplyDeleteHis family made it private because they were being attacked. One stupid girl from his high school says it's him. My friends who actually know him say it doesn't look anything like him (wrong hair length, etc), especially in the new high-res picture.
DeleteHis hair could have grown since he disappeared. I saw one picture of him with slightly longer, curly hair.
DeleteAre you kidding me? How could his hair have grown that much in a month? It is sad seeing the lack of logic people are using to desperately try to connect dots. And that twitter response is ambiguous - she doesn't mention WHY the picture freaks her out (like seeing a picture of someone responsible for doing something so terrible). Everyone needs to get a grip and stop making assumptions and baseless speculation. It is so sad to see people jumping to conclusions like this and hurting others as a result.
DeleteYou are right no one ever in the history of man kind has ever changed his look to avoid detection. such as maybe using a wig or hair extensions or anything else for that matter. my bad.
DeleteYeah but that isn't concrete evidence at all. For every hypothetical thing that could link someone to something there is another hypothetical that does the opposite. Up until the chatter on the police scanner this was purely speculative based on things that were conjecture and not backed up with solid and specific evidence. And to make heavy accusatory claims like that before knowing for sure is absolutely irresponsible, even if it does turn out to be him.
DeleteNothing on here or reddit can claim to be 'concrete evidence'! Reddit was ready to hang two completely innocent dudes because they had black backpacks. These wannabe sleuths have too much time on their hands, but I suppose it's entertainment. Nothing more.
DeleteIf you click on the link to the actual article it states clearly that controlled detonation and other bombs going off occurred in HANOVER, MA. And if you read this article then you would know they said,"The location is halfway between Brown and Boston." (which Hanover, MA is, pretty close at least) So, no, there was no controlled bomb detonation in Rhode Island, and also none of you can read.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous likes this (thumbs-up).
DeletePlus the time the police found the device 7:49 p.m. on March 15 in Hanover, MA and when he went missing 1:33 a.m. on March 16 6 hours apart plenty of time for travel between the two places http://goo.gl/maps/ORxcc
DeleteI'm watching this unfold, if they have not been able to find this missing student and he is involved in the Boston marathon incident, i am fearful we could see more incidents occur before he is captured.
DeleteEither way my heart goes out to his family, all they know is their family member is missing. If it was a member of my family,i would feel awful right now.
Yeah a bomb went off halfway between Brown and Boston, so what? That is still not nearly sufficient evidence to even suspect it was him. The photos of the attacker in the white hat do not look like him. The Bomber has a broader face and a more pronounced jawline than Sunil. Stop being stupid and wait for EVIDENCE.
DeleteThey released his name, guys. It's him.
DeleteThere is something definitely going on among the "chatter" about MIT right now and Sunil. Listen to wbz-radio. There will be a report soon or during night. This is so eerie, but starting to add up, a bit.
ReplyDeleteI've been listening to the scanner since this all started. Seems like they got caught possibly planting bombs at MIT and got spotted by the security guard. Sunil has been VERY evasive and must be in great shape given the distance he's covered on foot. The scanner coverage is excellent...news sources were getting everything wrong and the scanner is giving accurate real time descriptions.
DeleteNobody grows that much hair in 4 weeks. New theory needed, people.
ReplyDeleteWig?
Deletepicture used for missing poster older picture of him?
DeleteJust going by his last name, Tripathi, seems to be of Indian origin. Myself being Indian origin, I know my hair can grow super fast. Also, you don't know the length of his hair at the time of his disappearance.
Delete...where is Sunil now?
ReplyDeleteArrests made at Watertown, Boston, police are still searching the area
ReplyDeleteArrests for??
DeleteThe 2nd suspect in this picture looks nothing like sunil http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/thelede/posts/suspect-number-2.JPG
ReplyDeleteIts gotto be him. He join with others. Im curious what he wrote in his note. Has to be more people involve.
ReplyDeletei believe all you people are brown people blind, just like some people are color blind. How are these two the same person?
ReplyDeletehttp://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/blogs/thelede/posts/suspect-number-2.JPG
http://cdn.abclocal.go.com/images/wpvi/cms_exf_2007/news/local/032913_image_Sunil_Tripathi_FB_1.jpg
and i believe u were wrong. typical race baiting.
DeleteNBC says you're wrong: https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/325178091947323392
DeleteSunil is 6 feet tall. The bomber is clearly a pretty short guy.
you have no idea or a perspective on the height of anyone in the pics---keep spreading disinfo--the only recent pic of him is with an Eagles woolie on his head
DeleteHere is a gif comparing Sunil's pic with that from FBI
Deletehttp://i.imgur.com/3Bh7rkc.gif
idiot:
Deletehttps://twitter.com/AP/status/325198361428893698
Good morning,you believe i was what? care to try again?
Deletehttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/BINA3ESCEAAVKXW.png:large
Deletehttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/BINbmGHCIAAxUsK.jpg:large
You know, some of us WERE questioning this.
Suspect no. 2 does not look 6 foot tall, esp. in the newly published pic. His facial features appear much "coarser" than Mr. Tripathi.
ReplyDeleteAll I'm saying is that I didn't know that kid was missing, so I'm pretty biased. A friend just had a picture of him up on their computer (no headline or indicator) and I said "That looks like the suspect with the white hat." I'm not an FBI agent though.
ReplyDeleteDEFINITELY him!!!!! Why was the FBI involved in his disappearance?
ReplyDeleteIt's him..... Police on scanner identify the names of #BostonMarathon suspects in gunfight, Suspect 1: Mike Mulugeta. Suspect 2: Sunil Tripathi. I'm shocked.
ReplyDeletelessgo BPD
DeleteBPD is actually doing a stellar job...I've been listening to the scanner since this first started. Seems like they got caught planting bombs at MIT and shot the MIT officer and then Sunil went Jason Bourne on everyone...they have him cornered now and on the scanner they just said that they will try to wait until daylight unless he does something crazy in the meantime.
Deleteyour assuming his hair was that short the DAY he went missing. can we confirm when the pic was taken?
ReplyDeleteEvidence is suggestive: http://twitpic.com/ckcvk0
ReplyDeleteWe can thank Obama for this one. Talk about not caring about domestic security - a freak goes missing and Obama says to ignore it and focus on gun politics instead ! Obama knew this guy was on the loose and DID NOTHING.
ReplyDeleteAnd unlike Obama's wishes they are NOT white, neither of them.
DeleteThe kid was thought to have committed suicide
DeleteReally? You are that retarded? Does Obama have to go fucking Rambo on everyone to show that he is doing something? WTF? Yes... the FBI is in full force, Obama has done nothing but morn with the families that were affected and the city of Boston. You might want to look in the mirror and take the giant "moron" off of your forehead.
DeleteHere is also a pic of the first suspect who is NOT WHITE being arrested (5th picture): https://twitter.com/sethmnookin/media/grid
ReplyDeleteThat means none of them are white.
Who cares if they are white or brown or black? Get them off the streets.
DeleteIt cannot be this man. Reason: the suspect list released by FBI has no one like him. they look like arabs and afghans, not Indians. Another reason being, this guy is not a muslim. Non-muslim Indians have no qualms with western society and try well to be good citizens wherever they are present. Stop speculating on a missing person.
ReplyDeleteJust like to say for all you assholes who don't know any history that Che Guevara did not believe in attacking civilians. If you read his diaries you will see that he even let combatants go (who then reported his location and got him killed). Now POTUS, on the other hand, has no problems killing civilians as collateral damage in drone strikes. So please, take your right-wing loony bullshit and stick it.
ReplyDeleteThe FBI getting involved in the disappearance of this kid only 2 days after he disapeared suggests to me that they may have suspected him of something. Possibly on a watchlist. He was a former chemistry major. If they are putting his name out there on the scanners I would bet its him. But the nonsense against his family should stop.
ReplyDeleteThe FBI getting involved in the disappearance of this kid only 2 days after he disapeared suggests to me that they may have suspected him of something. Possibly on a watchlist. He was a former chemistry major. If they are putting his name out there on the scanners I would bet its him. But the nonsense against his family should stop.
ReplyDeleteHopefully the remaining suspect will be caught. No one knows if said suspect is really Mr. Tripathi, so until then, qualm the need to start a hate-filled, racist witch hunt. There have been plenty of people who have been harassed by reporters (no surprise) over this tragedy and what the nation needs are answers, not speculation.
ReplyDeleteSuspect 2 is definitely 6 ft tall if you see the pics of him in the crowd at the Marathon. Its him. And id love to know what was in his suicide note. The family said it was vague but the FBI was using it as evidence.
ReplyDeleteAs someone said...he was identified on the police scanner. He grew up in Radnor, PA...rich well to do family. He was a philosophy major, not a chemistry major. Family was devastated by his disappearance. This will be devastating for them and they should be left alone.
ReplyDeleteOMG! HE IS NOT ARAB, THANK YOU GOD, THANK YOU!
ReplyDeletePolice have confirmed it is him: http://twitchy.com/2013/04/19/named-suspects-identified-on-police-scanner-as-mike-mulugeta-sunil-tripathi-one-suspect-is-running/
ReplyDeleteWow ... Some of you are really racist pieces of shit!
ReplyDeleteStupid republicans. You know nothing. Not the guy. Dumbfucks.
ReplyDeleteA LEFTIE bomber! What an *INconvenient* truth!!! (Note the Che t-shirt in some photos). In time, we’ll see if there is a Saudi/alQaeda link. TBD. BUT:
ReplyDeleteNOW is a golden opportunity for the Right/Conservatives to
HAMMER America’s Left with this act of terror on the United States.
Make Bill Ayers’ chickens come home to roost.
Like Timothy McVeigh? Stupid republican.
DeleteHey "replying Anonymous"...whatsa madda?!? Can't *stand* it when someone DARES to treat the Left just as YOU treat those on the Right EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY?!? F'ING HYPOCRITE CRYBABY! Boo Friggin' Hoo.
DeleteI'm your worst nightmare, I'm a liberal that believes in the 2nd Amendment. I ain't so uncommon either, tough guy.
DeleteJust like 9/1l: Religious extremists with Right-Wing nut jobs taking the cues from them and sending poison notes. You people ever get your facts straight? Do you really think we aren't keeping track? Fight the Right.
ReplyDeleteMove to North Korea and enjoy the reality of your fantasy-world *today*, Lefty Loser!
DeleteNow that "Sunil Tripathi" is not a likely suspect, I wonder if reddit and twitter know-alls would like to apologize to his family?
ReplyDeleteExactly... "BUT HE HAD A CHE SHIRT ON!!!" OMFG!!!
DeleteFreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!!! Goes the breaks in your tiny minds.
Stupid republicans.
not likely? where's the source from?
DeleteSo did the bader Meinhoff and the IRA, stupid democrats. Probably the same stupid American Irish who funded the IRA for years.
ReplyDeleteOccutards. Put yourself in debt to turn your kid into a Marxist bomber.
ReplyDeleteA left wing extremest.
ReplyDeleteYeah, how do you guys feel now for wrongfully accusing someone for such heinous acts? For all we know, Sunil could be the kindest human being and you guys were attributing such horrible things to him without any concrete evidence. You were also spreading things that caused people to harass his family. I hope you guys learned form your own stupidity to be more careful about the judgement you pass and the repercussions of your actions. It worries me how so many of you were convinced so easily just because a few things matched up - things like this erode my faith in humanity.
ReplyDeleteYou all naming this poor guy Sunil is really wrong and shame on all of you especially,
ReplyDeleteKami Mattioli " I went to high school with him, oh it looks like him, cnn are calling me!". Please. Did you think of the hurt to the family and friends of this guy? And what about the guy himself. You all are racists, "they all look the same to me" his father said he is a quiet sweet guy who gets on with eveybody. I hope they sue all of you, and may all of you naming him have paIN AND HEART ACHE IN YOUR LIFES! KAMI MATTIOLI!
It wasn't Sunil Tripathi. All your idiots, go to hell. Someone on here was trying to tell you ignorant trolls it wasn't him.
ReplyDeleteMy God. So quick to condemn - and so viciously.
ReplyDeleteYou folks really need to get yourselves a different hobby. Before it got the name "crowdsourced justice", what you're up to used to be called "a lynch mob".
ReplyDeleteFnidiots.
You should Publicly apologize to this poor guy !! Idiots !
ReplyDeleteAnd i hope his family Sue you for deformation of character ..
ReplyDelete