[UPDATED] The Latest in The Hunt for Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect

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

Multiple communities in the Boston area are in complete lockdown Friday as a manhunt that began last night continues for the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing.

Earlier this afternoon Connecticut State Police issued a statement saying that the suspect might be driving a 1999 Honda with Massachusetts registration number 116-GC7. State police have since called off that alert. 

Law enforcement officials are focussing their attention on a couple of locations in Watertown but police have cast a wide net in their search for the suspect. 

This morning, Connecticut State Police searched an Amtrak train in Norwalk before clearing it and allowing it to continue. Amtrak has now suspended service from Boston to New York. State Police tactical teams also converged on the New London Ferry dock earlier today, also finding nothing for anyone to be alarmed about. 

Businesses, schools, and mass transit in Boston 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. The Boston Red Sox postponed tonight's scheduled game. 

The Background

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 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. A resident of Watertown who hails from Berlin, Connecticut, described the situation to the Berlin Patch. No vehicle traffic is allowed in or out of Watertown until further notice. 

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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