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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Parking Ticket Gives More Insight Into Watertown Shootout

Police found an old ticket issued to a car registered to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for parking in the area where the shootout occured.

A parking ticket issued during a snow emergency provides more evidence that the Boston Marathon Bombing suspects had visited the Watertown neighborhood where they got into a shootout with Watertown Police, and where one met his end. The parking ticket was issued to a silver Honda registered to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, according to a report by ABC News. It was issued on Feb. 18, 2011, for parking on Boyston Street during a snow emergency. State and federal authorities are investigatign the possible role Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan played in the 2011 murders of three people in a Waltham home. Tamerlan was killed during the April 19 shootout with police in Watertown. The Tsarnaev brothers had a friend, …

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Watertown Police Officers Recount Harrowing Encounter with Bombing Suspects

Five of the officers who battled the Tsarnaev brothers shared their stories.

Officer Joseph Reynolds saw them first, and he barely had time to turn his cruiser around before the battle began with the Boston Marathon Bombing suspects.  Reynolds and four of the Watertown Police officers who shot it out with Tamerlan and Dzhohkar Tsarnaev at the intersection of Laurel Street and Dexter Avenue shared their stories with MSNBC and WCVB-TV. Reynolds received a report to be on the lookout for a stolen, black Mercedes SUV. He had orders not to stop the vehicle, so he tried to approach without spooking the Tsarnaevs. “(Tsarnaev) stopped his vehicle, and I was about 10 - 15 yards away,” Reynolds said in an interview on MSNBC’s The Last Word on Tuesday. “And Tamerlan jumped out and he just started walking toward my cruiser and…

Friday, September 14, 2012

Candlelight Vigil Held for Waltham Triple Murder Victims

Relatives hope to keep the unsolved case in the public eye.

A year after the triple murder on Harding Avenue in Waltham, family and friends of the victims are pushing to keep the case in the public eye and keep the memory of their loved ones alive. About 20 people gathered for a candlelight vigil Tuesday, Sept. 11, at 9 p.m., across the street form the Waltham Police Department, which has been investigating the case. In hushed tones, family and friends recalled their memories of Brendan Mess, Erik Weissman and Raphael Teken, whose bodies were discovered on Sept. 12, 2011, in Mess’s apartment at 12 Harding Ave. Authorities ruled the deaths as homicide, but never named suspects or made arrests in the case. The Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office recently told Waltham Patch it is still …

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