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A glance at the search for Boston bomb suspects

Key moments related to the search for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, based on reports from the Middlesex County district attorney, Massachusetts State Police and Boston police.

— At 5:10 p.m. Thursday, investigators of the bombings release photographs and video of two suspects. They ask for the public’s help in identifying the men.

— Around 10:20 p.m., shots are fired on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, just outside Boston.

— At 10:30 p.m., an MIT campus police officer who was responding to a disturbance is found shot multiple times in his vehicle, apparently in a confrontation with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects. He is later pronounced dead.

— Shortly afterward, two armed men reportedly carjack a Mercedes SUV in Cambridge. A man who was in the vehicle is held for about a half hour and then released unharmed at a gas station on Memorial Drive in Cambridge.

— Police soon pursue the carjacked vehicle in Watertown, just west of Cambridge.

— Some kind of explosive devices are thrown from the vehicle in an apparent attempt to stop police. The carjackers and police exchange gunfire. A transit police officer is seriously injured. One suspect, later identified as Suspect No. 1 in the marathon bombings, is critically injured and later pronounced dead.

— Authorities launch a manhunt for the other suspect.

— Around 1 a.m. Friday, gunshots and explosions are heard in Watertown. Dozens of police officers and FBI agents converge on a Watertown neighborhood. A helicopter circles overhead.

— Around 4:30 a.m., Massachusetts state and Boston police tell people living in that section of eastern Watertown to stay in their homes. They identify the carjackers as the same men suspected in the marathon bombings. Overnight, police also release a photograph of a man believed to be Suspect No. 2 wearing a gray hoodie-style sweatshirt. The image apparently was taken from surveillance video at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Cambridge. Authorities say the suspects robbed the store late Thursday.

— Around 5:50 a.m. authorities urge residents in Watertown, Newton, Waltham, Belmont, Cambridge, Arlington and the Allston-Brighton neighborhoods

From: http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/national/~3/ky4oyqHydZo/

Irish nanny accused of murder in Mass. baby death

An Irish nanny accused of killing a Massachusetts baby in her care is facing a murder charge.

Authorities say a Middlesex County grand jury indicted 34-year-old Aisling (ASH’-ling) Brady McCarthy on Friday on charges of murder and assault and battery on a child causing bodily injury. They say she’s accused of “violently injuring” baby Rehma Sabir (REM’-uh suh-BEHR’).

Rehma was hospitalized with severe head injuries in January on her first birthday and died two days later. Her family lives in Cambridge, just outside Boston.

McCarthy lives in nearby Quincy. She previously pleaded not guilty to assault and battery on a child. She was jailed on $500,000 bail while authorities awaited the baby’s autopsy results.

McCarthy’s lawyer had protested the high bail and said she was “an innocent person sitting in jail.”

From: http://feeds.foxnews.com/~r/foxnews/national/~3/ljSHhTiJwsE/

Aisling McCarthy Brady, Irish Nanny Accused Of Beating Child To Death, Has Hearing Delayed By Judge

By The Huffington Post News Editors

MEDFORD, Mass. — As an attorney protested a $500,000 bail set for an Irish nanny accused of beating a Massachusetts infant who later died, prosecutors said Friday they “fully and firmly” expect to bring more serious charges against her.

Middlesex County prosecutors said a state medical examiner needs more time to complete an autopsy on Rehma Sabir of Cambridge, who was hospitalized with severe head injuries on Jan. 14 – her first birthday – and died two days later.

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