Charles Village Resident Unharmed in Boston Attack

Charles Village resident Tom Gamper is unharmed following Monday's attack at the Boston Marathon.

Gamper told The Baltimore Messenger he saw and heard the two explosions from what authorities later said were improvised explosive devices.

"This is terrible. It's just terrible. It's a bad scene," Gamper, a Gilman School graduate who ran his third Boston Marathon, told the paper.

Three people are dead and 176 are injured following the attack just before 3 p.m. at the marathon's finish line. According to The Boston Globe, the two bombs were inside small duffel bags and consisted of nails and ball-bearings in 6-liter pressure cookers.

Local runner Mike Gimbel, who has run the marathon in the past and pulled out this year due to injury, said Monday the attack hit the race's most crowded area.

Locally, Baltimore police are raising their alert level.

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