BOSTON -- The city and its suburbs were locked down Friday as the manhunt intensified for the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, hours after the suspect's older brother was killed in a dramatic firefight with police in nearby Watertown, authorities said.
A door-to-door search was underway in Watertown for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, the brother of the dead suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, law enforcement authorities told USA TODAY.
The brothers are believed to have been in the U.S. for at least a decade, along with along with other family members, a federal law enforcement official said. Their names were not known to law enforcement officials prior to the Boston Marathon bombings, the official said. Authorities are reviewing their possible ties to Chechnya -- an area of Russia plagued by Islamic insurgency -- said the official who was not authorized to comment publicly.
The surviving suspect is believed to be the same man who dropped a backpack laden with explosives at the site of the second explosion. He was pictured wearing a white baseball cap in video images released by the FBI Thursday.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick ordered the entire city of Boston and its surrounding suburbs locked down and its residents to remain in their homes.
"We are asking people to shelter in place," he said.
Massachusetts shut down all mass transit, including buses and trains, in Boston and surrounding suburbs, Kurt Schwartz, director of Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency said. Schools were closed and classes canceled at most universities.
Col. Timothy Alben, Superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police, said the first suspect from Monday's bombing was shot by police in a gunfight following a pursuit that began Thursday night in Cambridge and ended a short time later in Watertown. The suspect died at a hospital.
Schwartz asked businesses in Watertown, Newton, Waltham, Belmont, Cambridge and the Alston and Brighton neighborhoods of Boston to remain closed and residents to remain indoors until the suspect is caught. Watertown Police Chief Edward Deveau said his town would be closed to traffic.
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"This situation is grave," Massachusetts State Police Superintendent Timothy Alben said. "We are here to protect public safety."
Alben described the second suspect as a light-skinned or Caucasian male with brown curly hair, dressed in a gray hooded type sweat shirt.
"We are concerned about securing the area and making sure this individual is taken into custody," he said. "We believe this to be a terrorist. We believe this to be a man who has come here to kill people."
Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis told reporters the suspect is armed and dangerous.
The manhunt for the marathon bombing suspects turned into hot pursuit at 10:30 p.m., when the two men robbed a 7-11 convenience store on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Alben said. A few minutes later, police found an MIT campus police officer shot multiple times in his car.
The police officer died of his injuries at Massachusetts General Hospital.
A transit police officer, Richard H. Donohue Jr., 33, was reported in critical condition after being shot, police said.
The suspects carjacked a Mercedes SUV, Alben said. Police found the car and the suspects in Watertown, and pursued them into a residential neighborhood where gunfire was exchanged.
Witnesses report hearing between 15 and 50 shots.
Alben said the suspects also threw explosives from the car. Residents, witnesses and media in the area heard at least two large booms.
A Massachusetts law enforcement official, speaking on condition he not be identified by name, said that the suspect who died is thought to be the first suspect in the FBI photos of the alleged bombers, wearing a dark hat.
The Middlesex district attorney's office said in a statement that police responded to reports of an armed carjacking by two males who held a victim at gunpoint for half an hour before the hostage was released uninjured.
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The Massachusetts State Police issued a Tweet at 3:45 a.m. saying police "will be going door by door, street by street, in and around Watertown'' searching for the at-large suspect.
The state police also advised residents in and around Watertown to stay inside. "Do NOT answer door unless it is an identified police officer,'' the department said.
The events unfolded overnight as the entire Boston metro area was on high alert following Monday's fatal bomb explosions during the Boston Marathon and as the FBI was leading a massive manhunt for suspects. The developments came on a day when the FBI issued photographs of two men that it said it is seeking and were seen in surveillance video carrying backpacks in the marathon race crowd on Monday before the twin explosions.
"I heard sirens, then a ton of gunshots.,'' said Adam Healy, 31, a behavioral specialist for autism who lives less than a mile from the scene. "And then I heard an explosion amid the gunshots. After the explosion, the sky lit up. "
Dan MacDonald, 40, sitting in a second story Watertown apartment, said he first heard sirens, then gunshots.
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"It was about 10 to 15 shots. then there was an onslaught," he said. "There were 25 to 60 shots within 45 seconds. Then the shots stopped and boom. It was like dynamite."
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By Donna Leinwand Leger, Kevin Johnson, Yamiche Alcindor and William M. Welch, USA TODAY
Contributing: John Bacon in McLean and Gary Strauss in McLean, Va.; Melanie Eversley in Boston
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