Photos Of Boston, Locked Down

By Abby Ohlheiser

166989191 — A police officer stands guard at South Station on April 19, 2013 in Boston. South Station was shut down and heavily guarded with police in response to the early morning shootings in Cambridge and Watertown, Mass.

As law enforcement officials conduct a city-wide search for the Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, the entire city of Boston is effectively on lockdown. And residents are posting eerie photos of empty streets as nearly an entire city's population remains indoors, waiting for news. Here are a few:

Harvard Square, Massachusetts Avenue (via @thecrimson) twitter.com/pourmecoffee/s…
& pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) April 19, 2013

View from my daughter's dorm window of the Boston Common. "Empty. Like a ghost town," she says. twitter.com/cloepoisson/st…
& Cloe Poisson (@cloepoisson) April 19, 2013

Photo: City on lockdown; an empty Kenmore Square in #Boston, Mass. (via Andrew Golden) twitter.com/NBCNews/status…
& NBC News (@NBCNews) April 19, 2013

Have never seen Downtown Crossing this empty. twitter.com/ailworth/statu…
& Erin Ailworth (@ailworth) April 19, 2013

Downtown Crossing 10:30 am twitter.com/WBURSteve/stat…
& Steve Brown (@WBURSteve) April 19, 2013

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