Boston area honors slain MIT officer

By David Crary, Rodrique Ngowi

Published April 24, 2013 4:00am ET

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Boston area honors slain MIT officer — Antonio DaSilva, of Woburn, Mass., cleans a mark made on the entrance to a building on Boylston Street in Boston, Wednesday, April 24, 2013. Businesses opened and traffic was allowed to flow all the way down Boylston Street on Wednesday morning for the first time since two explosions at the Boston Marathon on April 15. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer) | Michael Dwyer

BOSTON (AP) — As bagpipes wailed, more than 4,000 mourners paid their respects Wednesday to an MIT police officer who authorities say was ambushed in his cruiser by the Boston Marathon bombers, while U.S. investigators trying to get to the bottom of the plot looked for answers from the Tsarnaev brothers’ parents in Russia.

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