Breaking: Explosion Reported at Boston Marathon's Finish Line

[Jan Klimkowski]

So, did they rob the 7-Eleven or not?

Boston Bomber Manhunt: Shots, Suspect Cornered

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Clarification: An earlier version of this story said the violence began with the robbery of a 7-Eleven in Cambridge, Mass. Police said Friday the suspects didn't hold up the store, but coincidentally were there around the same time.

Looks like the CCTV doesn't match, so there's some frantic back-tracking going on.

7-Eleven robbery not related to Boston bombing suspects

Natalie DiBlasio, USA TODAY

6:26 p.m. EDT April 19, 2013
7-Eleven

(Photo: Paul Sakuma, AP)
Story Highlights

Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev visited a 7-Eleven, but did not rob it
The photo of the crime was not taken at a 7-Eleven
The Cambridge 7-Eleven was robbed by someone else last night

There was a 7-Eleven robbery in Cambridge last night, but it had nothing to do with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.

Margaret Chabris, the director of corporate communication at 7- Eleven, says the surveillance video of the crime was not taken at a 7-Eleven and that the suspect that did rob the 7-Eleven does not look like Tamerlan or Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

"The suspect in the photos for that particular 7-Eleven robbery looks nothing like the suspects," Chabris says. "The police or someone made a mistake. Someone was confused."

The suspects were at the 7-Eleven around the time of the robbery but they did not rob the store said, State Police Superintendent Timothy Alban at an evening press conference on Friday.

At an earlier press conference morning, when Alben described the manhunt and standoff that resulted in the death of an MIT police officer, he also said that the two brothers robbed a 7-Eleven.

Chabris says the story of the robbed 7-Eleven was online immediately and spread quickly. She has been calling journalists all day to ask them to make a correction.