UPDATE: Early on the morning of Friday, April 19th, someone created this gif showing the similarity between a missing student Sunil Tripathi, and one of the suspects in the bombing of Boston. It has seen been discovered that this person does not have anything to do with the case. My apologies to his family.
I had also posted tweets from one of Suni’s friends who had confirmed his similarity to the suspects. These tweets have been deleted, but their addresses are as follows:
https://twitter.com/kmattio/status/325141286858399744
https://twitter.com/DougKyedNESN/status/325144314357362689
https://twitter.com/kmattio/status/325089172484399104
https://twitter.com/kmattio/status/325059425922580480
https://twitter.com/kmattio/status/325022515179180034
Now that he’s identified, please read this story on Sunil Tripathi that was written on MARCH 28. It’s terrifying. news.gather.com/viewArticle.ac…
— Rich Levine (@rich_levine) April 19, 2013
From the article:
Sunil is gone. He’s not where he’s supposed to be. But going into hiding, planning a highly-publicized suicide, being in the throes of a nervous breakdown—whichever—this is certainly not a missing persons case in the sense that the public has come to understand them: An
I mean maybe it’s a total coincidence but I’m more than a little freaked out by the resemblance. #Boston twitter.com/kmattio/status…
— Kami Mattioli (@kmattio) April 18, 2013
BREAKING Police: 1st suspect might've had chest explosive, detonated on arrest, 2nd might as well #Watertown #MITshooting #BostonMarathon
— Ashish Bakshi (@AshishMBakshi) April 19, 2013
However, if this report is true, then all of the above is incorrect:
https://twitter.com/DylanByers/status/325169184931721216
https://twitter.com/jraske/status/325172670901669888