[Updated] Latest on Hunt for Marathon Bombing Suspects

[Updated 12:53 p.m.] By Ron DeRosa 

Amtrak rail service has been suspended indefinitely between Boston and New York as authorities continue the search for bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

The trains are currently operating, however, between Washington DC and New York, Amtrak tweeted Friday.

Police are still conducting a massive manhunt of Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old Massachusetts resident wanted in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing on Monday. 

Visit Watertown, MA, Patch for all of the updates on Boston situation.


[Updated] 10:30 a.m.

From the Connecticut State Police, the Honda CRV has been recovered:

This vehicle has been recovered in Boston. All calls regarding this case should be directed to Boston investigators.

[Updated] 10:25 a.m.

This update was reported and written by Harold F. Cobin and Michael Dinan.   

Police in Norwalk boarded an Acela train Friday morning at the South Norwalk train station, hours after authorities in Boston—one terminus for the Amtrak line that runs through Norwalk—search for the second suspect in Monday's marathon bombing.  Click here for real-time updates on the search.   

Connecticut State Police have issued an alert that suspected bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, may be driving a gray Honda CR-V bearing a Massachusetts license plate number 316 ES9. 

An Amtrak Acela train was stopped in East Norwalk shortly before 9 a.m. Members of Norwalk Police Emergency Services walked through the train without locating the suspect. The train had previously stopped in Providence, RI, and New Haven and New London. An Acela train that originated in Boston at 6:05 a.m. had been scheduled to come through Norwalk around the time that police boarded the train.

MTA reports that the upper New Haven Metro-North Railroad line is seeing delays of up to 45 minutes due to the police activity.   The Hour reports that police after giving the all-clear in Norwalk headed for Darien train station.

[Updated] 10:10 a.m.

From a Connecticut State Police news release:

Since the tragic bombing that took place in Boston on April 15, the Connecticut State Police has monitored all intelligence related to this investigation.    

Today, April 19, 2013, the Connecticut State Police received information from the Boston Investigation that a suspect vehicle could POSSIBLY be occupied by a wanted suspect.    

The vehicle is described by BOSTON AREA AUTHORITIES;  the SUSPECT MAY BE OPERATING A:   GRAY, HONDA, CRVREGISTRATION: 316 ES9 Massachusetts   Connecticut Troopers are posted strategically in our State and continue to communicate with Massachusetts authorities.    

THIS CASE REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION.

Original Story:

Reporting from Patch Boston area staff provided by Chris Caesar,John Waller, Daniel DeMaina, Franklin Tucker, Ryan Grannan-Doll, and Liz Taurasi.

Multiple communities in the Boston area are in complete lockdown Friday morning as an all-night manhunt continues for the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing.

Businesses, schools, and mass transit are shut down completely, and police are asking all residents of the affected areas to stay indoors. Many of the Boston area colleges, including Boston University, MIT, Northeastern, Harvard, Emerson, Lesley, Suffolk, Bentley and Boston College are closed today.

According to Watertown Patch, officials confirmed early Friday morning that they are searching for the second Boston Marathon bombing suspect in Watertown following a chaotic night that left the first suspect dead. 

The Associated Press is reporting the surviving Boston bomb suspect is identified as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge. "We believe this man to be a terrorist," Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said at a post-4 a.m. press conference about the at large suspect. 

"We believe this to be a man who's come here to kill people. We need to get him in custody." 

All MBTA service has been suspended on Friday morning and law enforcement officials are asking residents of Watertown, Newton, Waltham, Belmont, Cambridge and the Allston-Brighton neighborhoods of Boston to stay indoors and for businesses to not open today. Also, no vehicle traffic will be allowed in or out of Watertown until further notice. 

The suspect is considered armed and dangerous. 

A robbery at a Cambridge 7-11 Thursday night was followed by the fatal shooting of a MIT campus police officer, then a carjacking by the suspects, which turned into a shootout in Watertown on early Friday morning, with one suspect pronounced dead at a hospital after the shootout and the other at large.

For the most updated coverage, follow Watertown Patch which continues to update this story as it develops.

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