Politics & Government
Belmont's Lock Down Lifted, T is Back Running
Gov. Patrick rescinds "stay-in-door" edict, "but stay vigilant." Watertown will have "saturated" patrols through Sunday after Boston Marathon bombing suspect alludes law enforcement.

Gov. Deval Patrick lifted the lock down in Belmont, Watertown and four other communities after what is now seen as a fruitless massive day-long manhunt in Watertown for 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev of Cambridge, the surviving Boston Marathon Bombing suspect who is also implicated in the murder of an MIT police officer and a MBTA officer late Thursday, April 18.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar's 26-year-old brother, was shot and killed by law enforcement in Watertown around 1 a.m. Friday morning, April 19, after a wild chase through Cambridge and Watertown in which the pair threw grenades, pipe bombs and a "pressure cooker" bomb at police. Patrick said that more than 200 rounds were fired during the gun battle on a quiet residential neighborhood in East Watertown.
Tsarnaev remains at large, likely still in Massachusetts, said Police officials.
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"Base on developments, it is prudent to get back out as long as you are vigilant," said Patrick at a 6:12 p.m. press conference at the Watertown Mall in Watertown.
"We were very justified' in extraordinary shut down of region, given ferocity of gunfight," he said.
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Limited service on the MBTA has resumed on all modes except commuter rail which resumes Saturday, after being halted since 6 a.m., Friday.
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