19 April 2013 (23:00 UTC-07 Tango 18 April 2013)/08 Jumada t-Tania 1434/30 Farvardin 1391/10 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

Live reporter was tracking reports of multiple robberies and then gunshots in Watertown, Massachusetts, but as they arrived at a scene of several dozen cop cars more gunshots rangout.

NBC affiliate Reporter said at first a cop told him “we got ’em”, but then more gunshots.  Reporter says he and his crew are trapped for fear of getting hit by bullets.

Police running around residential neighborhood, apparently searching for suspects.  Photog says he saw smoke down one street, before police forced him back.

Watertown is a few miles from the MIT sniper incident. However, a cop said he did not think the two incidents are related.