At approximately that afternoon, with more than 5, runners still in the race, two pressure-cooker bombs—packed with shrapnel and hidden in backpacks among crowds of marathon-watchers—exploded within seconds of each other near the finish line along Boylston Street. The blasts instantly turned the sun-filled afternoon into a gruesome scene of bloodshed, destruction and chaos. Three spectators died: a year-old woman, a year-old woman and an 8-year-old boy, while more than other people were wounded.
Sixteen people lost legs; the youngest amputee was a 7-year-old girl. An investigation involving more than 1, federal, state and local law enforcement personnel was immediately launched. A breakthrough in the case came less than two days later, when FBI analysts, poring through thousands of videos and photographs taken from security cameras in the area where the attack occurred, pinpointed two male suspects.
The FBI released surveillance-camera images of the men, whose identities were then unknown, on the evening of April Soon after Collier was killed, Tamerlan Tsarnaev carjacked a Mercedes SUV at gunpoint, taking the driver hostage and telling him he was one of the Boston Marathon bombers. The brothers drove around the Boston area with their hostage, forcing him to withdraw money from an ATM and discussing driving to New York City. When they stopped at a Cambridge gas station, the hostage escaped and called police, informing them the SUV could be tracked by his cellphone, which was still in the vehicle.
Shortly after midnight, police in the Boston suburb of Watertown spotted the suspects in the stolen SUV and Honda Civic and tried to apprehend them. A gun battle broke out on a Watertown street, with the Tsarnaevs exchanging fire with the police and hurling explosive devices at them. One officer was seriously injured by gunshots but survived. After Tamerlan Tsarnaev was tackled by police, his brother Dzhokhar drove the stolen SUV straight at them, running over his brother before speeding away.
He abandoned the SUV nearby then fled on foot. A gravely wounded Tamerlan Tsarnaev, whose body was riddled with bullets, was taken to a hospital, where doctors were unable to resuscitate him. That day, April 19, the Boston area was put on lockdown, with schools closed, public transportation service suspended and people advised to stay inside their homes, as police conducted door-to-door searches in Watertown and military-style vehicles patrolled the streets.
That evening, after law enforcement called off their search of the area, a Watertown man went out to his backyard to check on his dry-docked boat. When he looked inside the covered, foot vessel, he was startled to see blood and a person, later identified as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, hiding there. The Watertown man immediately called , police arrived and surrounded the boat, and the alleged terrorist, who was wounded from the earlier gun battle, was taken into custody.
Before his capture, Tsarnaev reportedly scrawled a note inside the boat indicating the Boston bombings were committed in retaliation for U. At the time of the bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a sophomore at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, a former amateur boxer, was married and had a young child. The brothers were Muslims, born in the former Soviet Union republic of Kyrgyzstan in and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev arrived in the United States with his parents in , and the family soon applied for political asylum and settled in Cambridge.
Tamerlan and his two sisters followed the family to America in Crowds cheer on police officers as they exit the scene of where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was hiding, April 19, Police officers guard the entrance to Franklin street where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was hiding in a boat, April 19, , in Watertown, Mass.
A boat seen on Bing maps is where law enforcement personnel are focusing their attention. Authorities believe the second shooter might be hiding in this boat. Law enforcement search for the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, April 19, , in Watertown, Mass.
Law enforcement approach an area reportedly where a suspect is hiding on April 19, in Watertown, Mass. Law enforcement personnel enter blocked-off perimeter of where the bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is believed to be hiding, April 19, Police action at 17 Willow Avenue during the ongoing manhunt for a suspect in the terrorist bombing of the th Boston Marathon.
Watertown is on lockdown following a chase and shootout in the area last night. Maret Tsarnaeva, an aunt of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, speaks to journalists in the lobby of her apartment building in Toronto on April 19, The father of Boston bomb suspects, Anzor Tsaraev, reacts as he talks to the media about his sons, in his home in the Russian city of Makhachkala, April 19, Tamerlan, 26, was killed after he and his brother exchanged gunfire with police officers early on April 19, in Watertown, Mass.
Multiple explosive devices were detonated during the firefight. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrestles during the Framingham Tournament, Dec. Dzhokhar remains at large and is the subject of a manhunt, police said April 19, Ruslan Tsarni, the uncle of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect, speaks with the media outside his home in Montgomery Village, Md. A police officer evacuates a shoeless man holding a child as members of law enforcement conduct a search for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, April 19, , in Watertown, Mass.
Authorities said surveillance tape recorded late Thursday showed one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects during a robbery of a nearby convenience store before Collier was shot to death while responding to a report of a disturbance.
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority transit police officer Richard Donohue, 33, who was critically injured in an early morning shootout, April 19, , with the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been on the run, described as "armed and dangerous" and suspected of the Boston Marathon bombing. Chants of "USA!
In Boston, people danced on the streets outside Fenway Park. Police cornered Tsarnaev -- a naturalized U. A resident had gone outside to smoke and noticed a tarp on the boat was flapping, a relative told NBC News. When he went to investigate, he saw what looked like a curled-up person and bloody clothes.
Thermal imaging from helicopters confirmed there was a person in the boat, officials said. Over the course of two hours, several bursts of gunfire could be heard.
The police exchanged fire with Tsarnaev, threw flash-bang grenades designed to disorient him and brought a negotiator to the scene as night fell, officials said. Just before 9 p. As an ambulance took the suspect to Boston Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital — where he was in serious condition — people lining the streets applauded in joy and relief. For full coverage by NBC News , click here. Timothy Alben said at a briefing. President Barack Obama praised the outcomes but said many questions remained.
Among them, he said: "Why did young men who grew up and studied here as part of our communities and our country resort to such violence? Authorities are also not sure of a motive or whether the suspects had help. No one was arrested," a spokesman with the Massachusetts FBI office later said, once the two men and one woman questioned in connection with Tsarnaev were released.
But the president declared: "Whatever hateful agenda drove these men to such heinous acts will not, cannot, prevail. Whatever they thought they could achieve, they've already failed. His apprehension capped a manhunt that had the city of Boston and its suburbs on total lockdown after the execution of a college campus patrol officer, a carjacking and the death of Tsarnaev's year-old brother, Tamerlan, during a bullet confrontation with cops.
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