Sean Collier, an MIT Cop with a Calling, Was Shooting Victim in Bombers' Path
He became another victim of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects in the overnight mayhem in Cambridge before it turned to Watertown.
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Sean Collier was remembered for his commitment to MIT, his love of country music, and his dedication to his job. The vice president offered words of condolence from the perspective of someone who had also lost a child, before offering a scathing indictment of the Tsarnaev brothers.
He became another victim of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects in the overnight mayhem in Cambridge before it turned to Watertown.
A series of violent events culminated in Watertown, Massachusetts late Thursday night after two unidentified suspects engaged with as many as 100 police officers. Fleeing in a stolen Mercedes SUV and armed with explosives and firearms, the suspects in the SUV lost control and crashed the vehicle and made their way out of the situation by tossing a bomb towards authorities.
It started out as such a friendly joke: A couple of MIT sophomores sent a fake email around the university dormitories late last night, posing as the school's president and announcing classes were cancelled Wednesday because of threats related to the Aaron Swartz case. But this is the Aaron Swartz case, where nothing is friendly and everyone takes sides.
Even though the university said Tuesday it will release private evidence in the case and an internal review, MIT will do so very much on its own terms — and probably won't satisfy Swartz's family, friends, and legions of followers.
In an attempt to explain the inexplicable death of Internet activist Aaron Swartz, some of the country's best journalists, most outspoken activists, and his closest friends have devoted thousands upon thousands of emotional words with few answers to why a young man took his own life nearly two months ago.
The story about the gunman-on-MIT campus hoax called in to Cambridge police Saturday morning took a strange turn Wednesday afternoon. According to a school official, the hoax centered around someone seeking revenge for deceased hacker and Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz.
Twitter exploded Saturday morning after a gunman wearing body armor was reportedly spotted on the MIT campus, which is terrifying. Except after the smoke cleared and no gunman was found, it appears the whole thing was a hoax.
The editor in chief and publisher of MIT Technology Review turns to his iPad after saying good morning to his wife, but the last thing he looks at before going to sleep is a hardcover book.
As lawmakers decry the Justice Department's treatment of Aaron Swartz, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa says he's launching an investigation into the matter.
Giving proof to the caution of experts who say that no suicide has a simple explanation or single cause, as more details have emerged, the roles of the players in the federal prosecution of Aaron Swartz, and their alleged contributions to his suicide, has become much more complex.
Few people close to him doubt that an overzealous federal prosecution team contributed to Aaron Swartz's suicide last Saturday. And quite tragically, he wasn't the first to find himself in that position.
Though mental health experts caution that there is rarely ever one lone reason for suicide, information is emerging about how legal troubles were mounting for Internet activist Aaron Swartz in the weeks before his suicide on Friday.
After the initial emotional outpouring over Aaron Swartz's death, those close to Swartz are heaping the blame on MIT and the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney's office. One of those two will look at what role they may have played in Swartz's death.
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