Jubilation in Boston as remaining bombing suspect captured in boat
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April 21, 2013, Sunday
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CELEBRATIONS erupted in suburban Boston, downtown and beyond on Friday night as the capture of the remaining marathon bombing suspect was announced in a tweet from police.
In the Watertown neighborhood where 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev engaged in a firefight with police while hiding out in a parked boat, dozens of people at a police barricade cheered and applauded as law enforcement officers and emergency responders left the scene.
Police captured the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, found bloodied in a backyard boat after a wild car chase and gun battle that left his older brother dead and the Boston area sealed in an extraordinary dragnet.
The capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev - taken alive, though seriously wounded - lifted days of anxiety for Boston and Americans everywhere, but little was known about the motivation of the ethnic Chechen brothers.
United States President Barack Obama vowed investigators would solve that mystery. "The families of those killed so senselessly deserve answers," said Obama, who branded the suspects "terrorists."
During a long night of violence Thursday and into Friday, the brothers killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer, severely wounded another lawman and hurled explosives at police in a desperate getaway bid, authorities said.
Gunshot wound
Late Friday, less than an hour after authorities said the search for Dzhokhar had proved fruitless, they tracked down the 19-year-old university student holed up in the boat. He was weakened by a gunshot wound after fleeing on foot from the overnight shootout with police that left 200 spent rounds behind.
Tsarnaev was hospitalized in serious condition, unable to be questioned about his motives.
Boston police announced via Twitter that Tsarnaev was in custody. They later wrote: "CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody."
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in the shootout early in the day. At one point, he was run over by his younger brother in a car as he lay wounded, officials said.
The bloody endgame came four days after the bombing and just a day after the FBI released surveillance-camera images of two young men suspected of planting the pressure-cooker explosives that ripped through the crowd at the marathon finish line, killing three people and wounding more than 180.
The two men were identified by authorities and relatives as ethnic Chechens from southern Russia who had been in the US for about a decade and were believed to be living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. But investigators gave no details on the motive for the bombing.
The breakthrough came when a man in Watertown saw blood on a boat parked in a yard and pulled back the tarp to see a man covered in blood, authorities said. The resident called authorities and when police arrived, they tried to talk the suspect into getting out of the boat, said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis.
"He was not communicative," Davis said.
Instead, he said, there was an exchange of gunfire - the final volley of one of the biggest manhunts in American history.
Watertown residents who had been told in the morning to stay inside behind locked doors poured out of their homes and lined the streets to cheer police vehicles as they rolled away from the scene. Celebratory bells rang from a church tower. Teenagers waved American flags. Drivers honked. Every time an emergency vehicle went by, people cheered loudly.
In the Watertown neighborhood where 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev engaged in a firefight with police while hiding out in a parked boat, dozens of people at a police barricade cheered and applauded as law enforcement officers and emergency responders left the scene.
Police captured the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, found bloodied in a backyard boat after a wild car chase and gun battle that left his older brother dead and the Boston area sealed in an extraordinary dragnet.
The capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev - taken alive, though seriously wounded - lifted days of anxiety for Boston and Americans everywhere, but little was known about the motivation of the ethnic Chechen brothers.
United States President Barack Obama vowed investigators would solve that mystery. "The families of those killed so senselessly deserve answers," said Obama, who branded the suspects "terrorists."
During a long night of violence Thursday and into Friday, the brothers killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer, severely wounded another lawman and hurled explosives at police in a desperate getaway bid, authorities said.
Gunshot wound
Late Friday, less than an hour after authorities said the search for Dzhokhar had proved fruitless, they tracked down the 19-year-old university student holed up in the boat. He was weakened by a gunshot wound after fleeing on foot from the overnight shootout with police that left 200 spent rounds behind.
Tsarnaev was hospitalized in serious condition, unable to be questioned about his motives.
Boston police announced via Twitter that Tsarnaev was in custody. They later wrote: "CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody."
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in the shootout early in the day. At one point, he was run over by his younger brother in a car as he lay wounded, officials said.
The bloody endgame came four days after the bombing and just a day after the FBI released surveillance-camera images of two young men suspected of planting the pressure-cooker explosives that ripped through the crowd at the marathon finish line, killing three people and wounding more than 180.
The two men were identified by authorities and relatives as ethnic Chechens from southern Russia who had been in the US for about a decade and were believed to be living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. But investigators gave no details on the motive for the bombing.
The breakthrough came when a man in Watertown saw blood on a boat parked in a yard and pulled back the tarp to see a man covered in blood, authorities said. The resident called authorities and when police arrived, they tried to talk the suspect into getting out of the boat, said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis.
"He was not communicative," Davis said.
Instead, he said, there was an exchange of gunfire - the final volley of one of the biggest manhunts in American history.
Watertown residents who had been told in the morning to stay inside behind locked doors poured out of their homes and lined the streets to cheer police vehicles as they rolled away from the scene. Celebratory bells rang from a church tower. Teenagers waved American flags. Drivers honked. Every time an emergency vehicle went by, people cheered loudly.
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