(Reuters) - Larry Peruzzi, who runs a trading desk at a small institutional broker in Boston, came into his office at 7:45 a.m. on Friday and told his two-person early morning crew to leave immediately and prepare to work from home.
The city was not yet under virtual lockdown, but police had shot a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing overnight and a manhunt for the second suspect was under way. On Peruzzi's drive in, "The highway was just packed, and crawling," he told Reuters by telephone.
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