Ex-Winnipegger describes 'post-apocalyptic' Boston

Aformer Winnipegger living in Boston said the city was eerie and surreal as it sat under a lockdown order on Friday.

"We live in an area that is pretty bustling. We've got the major train line going through our area [and]we live on a main thoroughfare street, and we have nothing going on," Mandy Slavik-Larsen told CBC News on Friday morning.

"It's like a post-apocalyptic almost feeling."

Thousands of law enforcement officers spent Friday scouring the city and surrounding communitiesfor one of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings.

Overnight, police shot and killedtheother suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26.

The suspect at large, identified as 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was arrested late Friday evening. Following his arrest, officials said the suspect was taken to hospital.

The suspects, who officials have said are brothers, are believed tohave been involved inMonday's Boston Marathon bombings that killed three people and wounded more than 180 others. The men are also suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer in his vehicle late Thursday.

Slavik-Larsen lives in the Allston/Brighton part of Boston, across the river from Watertown, where there was a heavy focus by police.

"It certainly is unnerving, unsettling, and it's eerie not knowing where this guy is and that we can't leave our homes," she said.

The lockdown, which initially applied to just a number of areas and neighbourhoods west of Boston, was extended to the whole city Friday morning as well as the surrounding areas of Watertown, Cambridge, Waltham and Belmont.

During the lock down, people were urged to stay in their homes and lock their doors. Businesses were quiet, universities and colleges were closed and transit was shut down.

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick lifted the lock down on Friday evening, following hours of door-to-door searching.

That night, police in armoured vehicles and tactical gear rushed into the Boston suburb of Watertown, where the suspect had been hiding in a boat stored behind a house.

The crowd that gathered near the scene let out a cheer when spectators saw officers clapping.