Boston bombing suspect shot dead as hunt continues for his brother
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April 20, 2013, Saturday
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POLICE killed one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing in a shootout and mounted house-to-house searches for a second man yesterday, with much of the city under virtual lockdown after a bloody night of shooting and explosions in the streets.
Authorities cordoned off a section of the suburb of Watertown and told residents not to leave their homes or answer the door as officers in combat gear scoured a 20-block area for the missing man, who was described as armed and dangerous.
Officials identified the hunted man as Dzhokar Tsarnaev, 19, and said the dead suspect was his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26.
The fugitive described himself on a social network site as the member of a minority from southern Russia's Caucasus, which includes Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia and other predominately Muslim regions that have seen two decades of unrest since the fall of the Soviet Union, Reuters said.
Neither has so far been known to have come to the attention of US law enforcement officials.
Virtual standstill
Boston came to a virtual standstill after authorities urged everyone to stay at home. Public transportation throughout the metropolitan area was suspended, and air space was restricted. Universities, including Harvard and MIT, and public schools were closed.
During Thursday night a university police officer was killed, a transit police officer was wounded, and the suspects carjacked a vehicle before leading police on a chase that led to one suspect being shot dead.
Police were searching for the younger Tsarnaev, previously known only as Suspect No. 2, who was shown wearing a white cap in surveillance pictures taken shortly before Monday's explosions and released by the FBI on Thursday.
"We believe this to be a terrorist," said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis.
"We believe this to be a man who has come here to kill people. We need to get him in custody."
The older brother, previously known as Suspect No. 1 and who was seen wearing a dark cap and sunglasses in the FBI images, was pronounced dead.
The FBI identified the men on Thursday as suspects in the twin blasts believed caused by bombs in pressure cookers placed inside backpacks left near the finish line.
The explosions killed three people and wounded 176 in the worst attack on US soil since the suicide hijacking attacks of September 11, 2001.
The brothers had been in the United States for several years, a national security official said.
A Russian language social networking site bearing Dzhokar Tsarnaev's name paid tribute to Islamic websites and to those calling for Chechen independence.
The author identified himself as a 2011 graduate of Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, a public school in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He said he went to primary school in Makhachkala, capital of Dagestan, a province in Russia that borders on Chechnya, and listed his languages as English, Russian and Chechen.
His "World view" was listed as "Islam" and his "Personal priority" as "career and money."
He posted links to videos of fighters in the Syrian civil war and to Islamic web pages with titles such as "Salamworld, my religion is Islam" and "There is no God but Allah, let that ring out in our hearts."
He also had links to pages calling for independence for Chechnya, a region of Russia that lost its bid for independence after two wars in the 1990s.
About five hours after the FBI released surveillance pictures on Thursday showing the two men near the site of the explosions, a university police officer was shot and killed on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Middlesex County District Attorney said in a statement.
A short time later, police received reports of a carjacking by two men who kept their victim inside the car for about half an hour before releasing him, the statement said.
Police pursued that car to Watertown, where explosives were thrown from the vehicle at police and shots were exchanged, the statement said.
"During the exchange of the gunfire, we believe that one of the suspects was struck and ultimately taken into custody. A second suspect was able to flee from that car and there is an active search going on at this point in time," said Colonel Timothy Alben, superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police.
The wounded suspect was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he died from multiple injuries including gunshot wounds and trauma that may have been caused by an explosion, said Dr Richard Wolfe, chief of emergency medicine.
The suspects' uncle, Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Maryland, told The Associated Press that the men traveled to the US together from the Russian region near Chechnya.
Their father, Anzor Tsarnaev, said in a telephone interview from the Russian city of Makhachkala that his younger son, Dzhokhar, was "a true angel." "Dzhokhar is a second-year medical student in the US. He is such an intelligent boy. We expected him to come on holidays here," the father said.
The city of Cambridge announced two years ago that it had awarded a US$2,500 scholarship to Dzhokar Tsarnaev, who was listed as a senior at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School, a highly regarded public school whose alumni include Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and NBA star Patrick Ewing.
The White House said President Barack Obama was being briefed on developments.
Authorities cordoned off a section of the suburb of Watertown and told residents not to leave their homes or answer the door as officers in combat gear scoured a 20-block area for the missing man, who was described as armed and dangerous.
Officials identified the hunted man as Dzhokar Tsarnaev, 19, and said the dead suspect was his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26.
The fugitive described himself on a social network site as the member of a minority from southern Russia's Caucasus, which includes Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia and other predominately Muslim regions that have seen two decades of unrest since the fall of the Soviet Union, Reuters said.
Neither has so far been known to have come to the attention of US law enforcement officials.
Virtual standstill
Boston came to a virtual standstill after authorities urged everyone to stay at home. Public transportation throughout the metropolitan area was suspended, and air space was restricted. Universities, including Harvard and MIT, and public schools were closed.
During Thursday night a university police officer was killed, a transit police officer was wounded, and the suspects carjacked a vehicle before leading police on a chase that led to one suspect being shot dead.
Police were searching for the younger Tsarnaev, previously known only as Suspect No. 2, who was shown wearing a white cap in surveillance pictures taken shortly before Monday's explosions and released by the FBI on Thursday.
"We believe this to be a terrorist," said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis.
"We believe this to be a man who has come here to kill people. We need to get him in custody."
The older brother, previously known as Suspect No. 1 and who was seen wearing a dark cap and sunglasses in the FBI images, was pronounced dead.
The FBI identified the men on Thursday as suspects in the twin blasts believed caused by bombs in pressure cookers placed inside backpacks left near the finish line.
The explosions killed three people and wounded 176 in the worst attack on US soil since the suicide hijacking attacks of September 11, 2001.
The brothers had been in the United States for several years, a national security official said.
A Russian language social networking site bearing Dzhokar Tsarnaev's name paid tribute to Islamic websites and to those calling for Chechen independence.
The author identified himself as a 2011 graduate of Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, a public school in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He said he went to primary school in Makhachkala, capital of Dagestan, a province in Russia that borders on Chechnya, and listed his languages as English, Russian and Chechen.
His "World view" was listed as "Islam" and his "Personal priority" as "career and money."
He posted links to videos of fighters in the Syrian civil war and to Islamic web pages with titles such as "Salamworld, my religion is Islam" and "There is no God but Allah, let that ring out in our hearts."
He also had links to pages calling for independence for Chechnya, a region of Russia that lost its bid for independence after two wars in the 1990s.
About five hours after the FBI released surveillance pictures on Thursday showing the two men near the site of the explosions, a university police officer was shot and killed on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Middlesex County District Attorney said in a statement.
A short time later, police received reports of a carjacking by two men who kept their victim inside the car for about half an hour before releasing him, the statement said.
Police pursued that car to Watertown, where explosives were thrown from the vehicle at police and shots were exchanged, the statement said.
"During the exchange of the gunfire, we believe that one of the suspects was struck and ultimately taken into custody. A second suspect was able to flee from that car and there is an active search going on at this point in time," said Colonel Timothy Alben, superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police.
The wounded suspect was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he died from multiple injuries including gunshot wounds and trauma that may have been caused by an explosion, said Dr Richard Wolfe, chief of emergency medicine.
The suspects' uncle, Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Maryland, told The Associated Press that the men traveled to the US together from the Russian region near Chechnya.
Their father, Anzor Tsarnaev, said in a telephone interview from the Russian city of Makhachkala that his younger son, Dzhokhar, was "a true angel." "Dzhokhar is a second-year medical student in the US. He is such an intelligent boy. We expected him to come on holidays here," the father said.
The city of Cambridge announced two years ago that it had awarded a US$2,500 scholarship to Dzhokar Tsarnaev, who was listed as a senior at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School, a highly regarded public school whose alumni include Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and NBA star Patrick Ewing.
The White House said President Barack Obama was being briefed on developments.
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