The terrorist, dubbed 'Suspect 1' by the FBI, died in hospital with multiple gunshot wounds and possible blast injuries after a fierce gun battle rocked the Watertown area hours after a police officer was shot dead at the nearby MIT campus.
Police warned the other, named 'Suspect 2', who was seen on CCTV wearing a white baseball cap, was now on the run, adding: 'There is a terrorist on the loose who wants to kill people - do not open your door'.
Boston was in lockdown as police hunted the second suspect through the streets, with all mass transit shut and residents warned to stay inside
Boston Police Chief Ed Davis tweeted: ‘One suspect dead. One at large. Armed and dangerous. White hat suspect at large.’
A transit police officer was critically wounded in the exchange of gunfire with the suspects, police added.
The drama unfolded hours after the FBI released images of two men named as suspects in the Boston blast which killed three and injured 176 on Monday.
The Middlesex district attorney said the two men are suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer on campus in Cambridge late last night, then stealing a car at gunpoint.
Armed and dangerous: Police are hunting for the terrorist dubbed 'Suspect 2' (left) after he went on the run following a firefight in the Watertown suburb of Boston. The other, named 'Suspect 1' (right), died in hospital after the gun battle
Are these the bombers? The shoot-out came hours after these images were released in the hunt for two 'armed and extremely dangerous' men
Armed and ready: Police officers aim their weapons as they close in on two suspects in the Boston bombings after a university officer at MIT was shot dead on campus
Gun battle: Police officers draw weapons from behind a car during a dramatic shoot-out with two of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings
Warning: Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis tells the media that there is a terrorist on the loose who wants to kill people and tells people not to open their doors
Vigilant: Police officers stand in a shopping mall as the search for the 'Suspect 1' continues
Connections: A map showing the locations of the Boston Marathon bombings, the MIT campus where a police officer was shot dead and the suburb of Watertown where the gunfight broke out
A short time later, police received reports of a carjacking by two men who kept their victim inside the car for about half an hour, the statement said.
Police pursued that car to Watertown, where explosives were thrown from the car at police and gunfire was exchanged, the statement said.
'During the exchange of the gunfire, we believe that one of the suspects was struck and ultimately taken into custody.'
A doctor from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center said the suspect died after suffering multiple wounds from gunshots and possibly the blast of an explosive.
'There were signs of more than just gunshot wounds, said the doctor, who did not give his name.
'A second suspect was able to flee from that car and there is an active search going on at this point in time,' Colonel Timothy Alben, superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police, told a news conference.
'What we are looking for right now is a suspect consistent with suspect No 2, the white-capped individual who was involved in Monday's bombing of the Boston Marathon,' Alben said.
Police say the two suspects discharged several explosives at police from the vehicle during the pursuit.
According to eyewitness reports, two men believed to be in their early twenties engaged in a furious gun fight with dozens of police on a backstreet of Watertown.
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