UPDATED Thursday with new information from BPD.
Boston Police report a carjacking near the Jackson Square T stop ended with a manhunt on Amtrak tracks and in woods along the Hyde Park/Roslindale line.
Orlando Pizzaro, 34, of Brockton, is charged with stealing an occupied car around 4:05 p.m. at Centre and Lamartine streets:
[He] approached the passenger in the car and asked for a cigarette. According to the victim, when the passenger reached into his pocket to get a cigarette, the suspect produced a firearm, pointed it at the passenger and ordered both occupants out of the car.
The car was last seen turning onto Washington. Not long after, officers on patrol spotted the white Civic heading south on Hyde Park Avenue, near Metropolitan Avenue - and the house where two people were murdered on Tuesday.. Police say when the officers pulled the car over, near Serino's, Pizzaro ran.
Pursued by officers, he ran onto Providence Street near the Amtrak and commuter-rail tracks. And then he ran across the tracks into the woods on the Roslindale side.
Train service was halted as police officers flooded the area to look for him. Shortly before 5 p.m., after he made it across the woods to Austin Street - and following a brief struggle - officers took him into custody, police say.
He was charged with armed carjacking, assault with intent to murder, unlawful possession of a firearm and possession with intent to distribute a Class A drug.
Innocent, etc.
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