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Boston, Apr 19- Boston's police commissioner confirmed early Friday that one of the suspects in this week's deadly bombing attack at the Boston Marathon is dead, while the second remains at large amid a massive manhunt that has paralyzed this northeastern city.
Ed Davis confirmed reports by the local WCVB television station, saying that the slain individual is a man identified by the FBI as "suspect No. 1" in the marathon bombing and who was seen in a surveillance video on the day of the race wearing a black cap and sunglasses.
In a press conference, police said the second suspect, who in other surveillance footage released Thursday was wearing a white cap, is on the loose and is the subject of a manhunt in Watertown, a west Boston suburb.
Shortly before the hunt began for the suspect, Boston police released a photo of the man, identified as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old of Chechen origin.
Tsarnaev had lived for at least a year in Cambridge, a Boston suburb that is the home of the world-famous Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dzhokhar's brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan, has been identified as the slain suspect.
The huge police operation in Watertown was launched after an MIT campus security officer was killed Thursday night.
He was reportedly slain by the two suspects after responding to a convenience store robbery near central square in the Boston suburb of Cambridge.
The suspects then fled the scene after hijacking a car and headed from Cambridge to Watertown. While being chased by police, they seriously wounded a transit system police force officer.
The pursuit ended in Watertown, where one of the suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed in a shootout with police and his brother fled.
According to CNN, the slain suspect's body may have been strapped with explosives, which would explain why he arrived at the hospital with detonation wounds.
Police have launched a massive deployment of manpower and armored vehicles in the suburb of Watertown; they were taking great precautions for fear the at-large suspect has planted or is carrying explosives.
A pair of bombs went off near the finish line of Monday's Boston Marathon, leaving three dead and more than 140 wounded. EFE
In Eagle Pass, Texas, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents along with Texas Department Public Safety agents
arrested 35-year-old Hipolito Amaya, owner of AM-ROD Construction based in Eagle Pass, in connection with
an alleged bribery, kickback and bid-rigging scheme announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and FBI
Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez.
A federal grand jury indictment, returned yesterday and unsealed today, charges the Amaya with one count of
paying a bribe to an agent of an organization receiving federal funds. The indictment alleges that in May 2011,
Amaya submitted a $35,800 bid to Maverick County to construct a concrete sidewalk on Lago Vista in Precinct
4 of Maverick County. Maverick County issued him a $17,900 check to commence work and then a $17,900
check for the completion of the sidewalk. The indictment alleges that Amaya made cash payments to two
Maverick County employees so that he could be paid in full for a project he never completed. Additionally,
Amaya is alleged to have never constructed the sidewalk he was paid to build.
Upon conviction, Amaya faces up to ten years in federal prison.
This ongoing investigation is being conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Texas Department
of Public Safety. Individuals who have first-hand information about corruption, fraud, or bribery related to
Maverick County are urged to contact the FBI at (210) 225-6741. Assistant United States Attorney Michael
Galdo is prosecuting this case on behalf of the Government.
An indictment is merely a charge and should not be considered as evidence of guilt. The defendant is
presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Staff
-Eagle Pass
United Medical Centers is now offering online services giving patients direct access to their own health information. UMC has recently announced a significant upgrade to the online services that it will be providing for its patients. The new web portal will give unprecedented access to registered users with an initial registration at the clinic. UMC staff will be assisting patients in acquiring a secure PIN and website address that will allow them to access a wealth of features that pertain to their own health records. The online service will allow users to access follow-up visit forms, new patient forms, appointment requests, registration notification, account statements, billing questions, referral requests, update their personal information, as well as other features.
The addition of an online portal for patients is a progressive upgrade designed for the meaningful use of Electronic Health Records (EHR) which UMC has transitioned into in the past several years in order to better facilitate the transfer and management of patient data.
George Kypuros, CEO, states, “Medicine is rapidly changing every day and UMC must keep up with all of the changes, particularly the changes that are occurring in technology. The implementation of an EHR system we initiated in August 2011 was a huge challenge for all of us, but it is something that was certainly worthwhile because it has improved the quality of care we offer and it has also prepared us to meet the many challenges and additional changes that we will be facing in the future.”
UMC provides primary health care services to insured and uninsured patients in Eagle Pass, Del Rio, and Brackettville, Texas. Its eight service sites offer Pediatric, OB/GYN, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Podiatry and Dental Services. In addition, the sites offer in-house services such as Laboratory, Pharmacy, Radiology, Social Services, Family Planning, WIC, Medical Nutrition Therapy, and HIV/AIDS Testing and Counseling.
For more information about this new service, patients can call the main UMC clinic located on Veterans Blvd. at 773-5358 or Eidson Road Clinic at 757-6946. Patients can also report to the clinic in person and staff will assist them in setting up their online patient web portal account.