The firefight that erupted between police and the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was not limited to the streets of Greater Boston in Friday’s early hours — as streams of wayward bullets spilled into homes.
Police sirens awoke many Watertown, Mass. residents to find bullets lodged in walls, furniture ruined and holes in windows. Although Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed in the firefight, his brother Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, is still at large and believed to be dangerous.
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The shootout came within a block of Megan Marrer and Adam Andrew’s apartment and left behind a deadly memento.
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Police officers search homes in Watertown for the Boston Marathon bombing suspect Friday morning.
“We found a hole in the living room wall and a bullet on the floor that clearly had been from the crossfire,” Marrer told TODAY via Skype from her apartment.
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The couple also received a security alert compelling them to stay indoors. The Boston Police Department repeated this message for the region at a morning news conference and on Twitter:
“Residents of Watertown, Waltham, Newton, Belmont, Cambridge and Allston Brighton reminded to stay indoors.”
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Adam Andrew and Megan Marrer are currently under lockdown in their home in Watertown, Mass., where police engaged in a shootout with the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing last night.
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Police continued to ramp up security throughout the morning. SWAT teams searched buildings for Tsarnaev and tanks patrolled the streets.
“It’s been unnerving,” Andrew said, “but having police presence has calmed me down a little bit.”
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Adam Andrew and Megan Marrer have not left their home since the shootout.
Andrew Kitzenberg, who lives in neighboring Waltham, found a bullet hole through his chair and wall.
Bostonians have heeded the warnings of danger and instructions from authorities to stay indoors. The typically bustling city and surroundings are empty and quiet, aside from the police still on the hunt.
“They told us to lock the doors and stay inside until we are given the all clear,” Marrer said.
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