Twitter is crazy right now, as second-by-second updates stream in about the live manhunt for the second Boston Marathon bombing suspect, 19-year-old Chechnyan named Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, pictured above. We say “second” suspect because the first suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was “killed early Friday after he and his accomplice brother robbed a 7-Eleven, shot a police officer to death, carjacked an SUV and hurled explosives in an extraordinary firefight with law enforcement,” NBC News reports. As we’ve said again and again: no day this week is complete without tragedy, violence, and extraordinary heroism in the face of evil or, in the case of last night, all of the above. 
 
 The latest: law enforcement officials have surrounded a house in the suburb of Watertown. They have, per The Atlantic, “forced media crews to move back, clearing the area completely. Some have also shut off their live feeds, to prevent the suspect from watching police movements on TV. Many networks have also gone to delay, in case something terrible happens on live TV.” 
 
 Again, this is a story changing very rapidly and very radically. We’ll continue to update as events materialize. 
 
 
 
 Update 9:53 p.m.: Tsarnaev may not be in the aforementioned Watertown home surrounded by police. According to CNN—yes, yes, we know, boo, hiss, CNN—the 19-year-old, believed to be armed and dangerous, might be as far away as Connecticut and might be traveling in a gray Honda CRV. Licence plate is 316 ES9, so if you see something, get far away and then say something. 
 
 News outlets, bereft of actual confirmed breaking news for the moment, are tracking down every person ever with whom the brothers may have interacted. The two have been alternately described as loners and sweet kids who are well-socialized. On CNN, the younger brother’s former classmate just described him as “a walking angel” who “smokes a little weed” but is not, like, “some foreign dude.” Take note, authorities! 
 
 
 
 Update 11:06 a.m.: According to The Boston Globe, Tsarnaev has reportedly abandoned the aforementioned Honda CRV and has fled on foot. Law enforcement authorities fear, but do not know for certain, that he is wearing an explosive device. 
 
 Meanwhile, various news sources have published more fleshed-out reports about the brothers’ pre–Boston Marathon lives. “The Tsarnaevs are believed to have emigrated with their family to the United States from Chechnya in 2002 after living briefly in Makhachkala, capital of Dagestan in Russia,” The New York Times reports. The younger was an accomplished high-school wrestler; the elder, a local community college student. 
 
 Amtrak service throughout New England remains more scattershot and disrupted than usual. 
 
 
 
 Update 11:50 a.m.: The boys’ uncle—their fathers’ brother—gave a remarkable news conference to reporters camped out on his lawn. Over and over again, Ruslan Tsarni insisted that the brothers’ alleged acts of violence had nothing to do with their Chechnyan heritage or regional Russian politics. (Take note, news magazines tweeting links to long-ago profiles of Chechnyan history.) Tsarni dismissed them both as “losers” and encouraged the younger brother, the current subject of the city-wide manhunt, to turn himself in and ask for forgiveness. 
 
 Update 2:05 p.m.: The suspects did not rob a 7-Eleven store. 7-Eleven would like to make that very clear. 
 
 ||||| With one of the two Boston bombing suspects killed in a shootout and the other the subject of a massive manhunt, PEOPLE spoke with their shocked father, Anzort Tsarnaev, and their sister, Alina Tsarnaeva, on Friday morning. 
 
 “They never could have done this. Never, ever, ever!” Tsarnev told PEOPLE via phone from Russia. In a conversation filled with screaming and yelling, he was clearly in a state of disbelief and horrified by the events he watched unfold on TV. 
 
 “I feel terrible! Why they kill my son? Something wrong! My sons never do bombing,” he insisted. “They hated guns – how they do bombs?” 
 
 “I am hurt for all the people who lost someone,” Alina told PEOPLE from her home in New Jersey. “I lost a relative, my brother. I love my brothers, this is shocking. I don’t know what got into them.” 
 
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 Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed overnight, while Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, remains at large, believed to be in the Boston area. 
 
 [IMAGE “1” “” “std” ]”My sons liked everybody. They very good kids,” said Anzort Tsarnaev. “They never do bad things to anybody. I talked to my sons yesterday, both of them. We talked about the bombing. I was worried about them, they said they were okay.” 
 
 The Tsarnaev brothers lived in the United States for several years, and Dzhokar was known as a popular, well-adjusted student in Cambridge, according to numerous reports. Their father, hysterical over the events in Boston, continued to convey his shock to PEOPLE. 
 
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 “I am very depressed,” he said. “How am I going to live? Never I think in my mind this happen. My sons hate people who do bombs, they hate terrorists. Why they kill my son? And where is my other son? They have time to catch my other son, not kill.” 
 
 He adds that his sons were “never interested in politics” – they had “big dreams” to go into business – and that they are “Muslim, but not radical Muslim.” 
 
 Their sister Alina, who spoke from behind the door at her home, added that she hasn’t seen her brothers for a long time and, too, is in disbelief over the news. 
 
 “They were smart boys,” she says. “I am just so hurt.” 
 
 • With Reporting from Tatsha Robertson ||||| The father of a suspected Boston Marathon bomber started to cry when ABC News told him that his son had been captured alive. 
 
 "Thank God," Anzor Tsarnaev said, speaking in Russian, thanking ABC News for relaying word that his son, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was in custody and alive. 
 
 Asked what he wanted to tell his son, Anzor Tsarnaev said, "Tell police everything. Everything. Just be honest." 
 
 Tsarnaev spoke to ABC News on more than one occasion today from his home in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, Russia, as Boston police carried out an intense dragnet for his son. 
 
 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev survived a running gun battle with police during the night that left an MIT security officer dead and a Boston police officer badly wounded. His older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in the shootout. 
 
 The father said he had spoken to his sons by phone earlier this week. 
 
 "We talked about the bombing. I was worried about them," Anzor Tsarnaev said. 
 
 He said his sons reassured him, saying, "Everything is good, Daddy. Everything is very good." 
 
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 The elder Tsarnaev, in a series of conversations with ABC News, insisted his sons were innocent, but said he would appeal to his son to "surrender peacefully." 
 
 "Give up. Give up. You have a bright future ahead of you. Come home to Russia," the dad said. 
 
 The father warned, however, "If they killed him, then all hell would break loose." 
 
 "If they kill my second child, I will know that it is an inside job, a hit job. The police are to blame," the father told ABC News. "Someone, some organization is out to get them." 
 
 Anzor Tsarnaev said that his sons were "set up" and that they are "very nice kids" who have no experience with weapons and explosives. 
 
 The father said his two daughters, ages 22 and 24, live in the U.S. One lives in West New York, N.J. 
 
 Profiles of the brothers give a conflicting picture. 
 
 The older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was described as an outgoing person who was a champion boxer, a "decent" pianist, drove a Mercedes and liked the movie "Borat." But in captions on an undated boxing photo album operated by photographer Johannes Hirn, Tamerlan Tsarnaev said, "I don't have a single American friend, I don't understand them." 
 
 He also told the photographer he was a "very religious" Muslim boxer who did not smoke or drink. One caption said he usually did not take his shirt off so girls wouldn't get bad ideas. 
 
 "There are no values anymore," he said, and worried that "people can't control themselves." 
 
 Before he was taken into custody, the younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was described as willing to die in a battle with police. But he was better known for taking acting classes, advanced placement courses and being a star athlete with lots of friends in high school. 
 
 He played soccer every Monday with University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth classmates, but he didn't show up for this week's game. He didn't return his teammates' calls. One teammate told ABC News that Dzhokar Tsarnaev was a "quiet guy" who was "a little bit of a druggie." 
 
 "He never seemed out of the ordinary at all," high school classmate Sierra Schwartz told "Good Morning America" today. "This is not someone who seemed troubled in high school or shy. He was just one of us. It's very weird." 
 
 One of the most surprising details about the younger Tsarnaev brother is the revelation that he became a U.S. citizen last year on 9/11, the anniversary of the worst terror attack in U.S. history. 
 
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 Steven Owens told ABC News, "I met him when I was in seventh grade and he was just a great kid. He was fun to be around. Very studious, very smart. I don't remember a time when he was ever having trouble in school. He was a great athlete. Great to be around." 
 
 Owens said Tsarnaev "always had a positive attitude," but had expressed some political opinions in school. 
 
 "He always thought the war [Iraq, Afghanistan] was stupid," Owens said. "He didn't enjoy the idea of war. We didn't really talk about it much. The only time it ever really came up was when we were learning about it in school." 
 
 When Owens first saw authorities' photos of Tsarnaev, he wasn't positive it was him since he hadn't seen him in a few years. 
 
 "I started looking through my yearbook because I thought I recognized him and there he was," Owens said. "I was just so surprised." 
 
 After high school, Tsarnaev went to UMass Dartmouth. Today students were evacuated from their dorms, following confirmation that Tsarnaev had lived in the Pinedale residence hall. 
 
 The search for Tsarnaev, of Cambridge, Mass., had effectively shut down Boston and its surrounding cities, including Watertown, Mass.. 
 
 Bomb Suspects Uncle Calls Nephews "Losers" 
 
 Both brothers were born in Kyrgyzstan, according to their uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, who said he has not seen his nephews since December 2005. The uncle was angry over what his nephews are accused of doing. 
 
 The enraged uncle said the only explanation for their behavior is "hatred to those that were able to settle themselves" and "being losers." 
 
 "If you are alive, turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness from the victims, from the injured and from those who left," Tsarni shouted, delivering a message to his nephew. "He put a shame on our family. He put a shame on the entire Chechen enthnicity." 
 
 John Curran, Tamerlan Tsarnaev's former boxing coach, told ABC News that Tsarnaev was the New England champion for two or three years in a row and was considering turning pro. Curran said he had not been in contact with him since 2010. 
 
 Curran said that before the bombing he would have agreed with the portrayal of Tsarnaev as a peaceful, courteous young man. 
 
 "I would agree on all of those if I was asked two days before the bombing what I thought of this young man," Curran said. "I'd say he was a fine young man. Very good athlete. Very courteous. Just a nice guy. I'm shocked beyond belief he was involved in this." 
 
 Curran said Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an extrovert and his brother an introvert. 
 
 Sierra Schwartz said she went to Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. She recognized him immediately when she saw his photo released by authorities. 
 
 "I was like, 'Wow, that looks just like Dzhokhar,'" she said. She then noticed that his Facebook page had been deleted. 
 
 Schwartz knew he went to college, but did not remember where. She last saw him in Cambridge in the summer of 2011 before starting college. She was not aware that he had a brother. 
 
 "He was a great athlete. He did well. I think he won a scholarship for it," Schwartz said. "This is very unexpected. ... This is out of the ordinary. Completely shocking." 
 
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 Schwartz is still reeling from the news that her former classmate had become the most wanted person in America. 
 
 "When I woke up, it's like I'm living a nightmare right now. It can't be described," she said earlier today. 
 
 "We all knew him for four years and that's something a lot of people can't say," she added. 
 
 The Monday bombing near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killed three people and injured more than 170. 
 
 Michael S. James contributed to this report.
– The father of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev didn't have reassuring words when he spoke to ABC News from his Russian home today, warning that "all hell would break loose" if his son died. "If they kill my second child, I will know that it is an inside job, a hit job. The police are to blame," Anzor Tsarnaev said. "Someone, some organization, is out to get them." He says his sons are innocent, but still urged Dzhokar to surrender without a fight: "Give up. Give up. You have a bright future ahead of you. Come home to Russia." Dzhokhar's brother Tamerlan reportedly died in an overnight gunfight with police. In a separate emotional interview with People, a "screaming and yelling" Anzor insisted his sons "hated guns" and "hate terrorists." Anzor said he was worried about his sons when he heard about the bombing Monday, and spoke to them by phone. They told him, "Everything is good, Daddy. Everything is very good." In an earlier interview with the AP, he described Dzhokar as "a true angel." Dzhokhar's uncle is also urging him to turn himself in. Ruslan Tsarni gave a media briefing outside his home in Maryland, where he was asked what he would say to his nephew. "I would say Dzhokar, if you are alive, turn yourself!" he bellowed, "and ask forgiveness from the victims, from the injured, and from those who left! Ask forgiveness from these people! ... He put a shame on our family! He put a shame on the entire Chechnyan ethnicity!" The brothers' aunt, speaking in Toronto, suggested that images of them at the marathon had been doctored in order to frame them, reports Business Insider. "I don't trust the FBI," said Maret Tsarnaeva. "Show me the evidence." (See video of her remarks in the gallery.) Media outlets have been tracking down former friends and acquaintances of the brothers, and one of them echoed the "angel" description to CNN, calling Dzhokhar "a walking angel" who "smokes a little weed," Vanity Fair reports. Click for more on the brothers.