The Full Story Behind Boston Marathon Bombing
An FBI agent fatally shot a man in Orlando, Florida early Wednesday who may have known deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, according to reports. The FBI has not released the name of the deceased, but friends identified him as 27-year-old Chechen Ibragim Todashev, local television station WESH is reporting. The shooting happened just after midnight Wednesday at an apartment complex near Universal studios.
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PHOTO: Jane Richard, who lost part of her left leg in the bombings, walking on a prosthetic leg (Click to see full)
This photo released by the Richard family shows Jane Richard, 7, who lost part of her left leg in the Boston Marathon bombings, walking on a prosthetic leg in Boston. The family of Jane and her late brother Martin, 8, who was killed by one of the blasts, said in a statement that the little girl is already dancing on her prosthetic leg and “struts around on it with great pride.” Picture: AP Photo/Richard Family
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Ibragim Todashev was being interviewed by the FBI because he had been in contact with suspected bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev before the Boston Marathon.
Image via gawkerassets.comA man in Orlando was shot and killed last night after being questioned by an FBI agent about his connection to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
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Ibragim Todashev was being interviewed by the FBI because he had been in contact with suspected bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev before the Boston Marathon. He had recently traveled to Boston to meet with Tamerlan, and had also planned a trip to Chechnya.
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The suspect then went to attack the agent and was shot, the sources said. The suspect is deceased, the FBI said.
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The FBI had questioned Todashev in the past regarding his ties to Tsarnaev, one of the Boston bombing suspects.
A friend of Todashev's confirmed that he knew Tsarnaev and that he had been in contact with him shortly before the bombings
Boston bomb suspect charged
Nineteen-year-old suspect could face death penalty after prosecutors charge him over Boston marathon bombing that left three people dead
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect, was charged at his hospital bed with using & conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction, a count that carries a possible death penalty.
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A magistrate judge read the charges to him as he lay seriously injured in Beth Israel Deaconess hospital. According to the criminal complaint, he has gunshot wounds to the head, neck, legs and hand.
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According to the criminal complaint filed on Monday, the Department of Justice will use evidence from video surveillance cameras to make their case.
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney made clear that the suspect would go through the civilian court system.
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The White House said Dzhokhar will not be treated as an enemy combatant, drawing a rebuke from Republican lawmakers who wanted the administration to consider that option for intelligence gathering.
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"My sons never do bombing!"
Unexpected: Friends and former classmates are painting a portrait of a normal young boy who went to parties and had friends. Photo courtesy of Daily Mail.
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The mother of Boston Marathon blast suspects, Tamerlan & Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, says it's impossible that her 2 sons were responsible for the violent events & insists they have been setup by the FBI.
dailymail.co.ukHis father said his son stayed with him in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, where the family lived briefly before moving to the United States a decade ago.
yahoo.comHe said his son went to the mosque for prayers, but would not have come under the influence of radical imams, who he said stay up in the mountain villages.
yahoo.comTheir mother claimed that the FBI contacted her elder son after the deadly bombs at the marathon. If so it's an indication that the FBI considered him a suspect before the shoot out on Thurs.
yahoo.com"They were controlling him, they were controlling his every step...and now they say that this is a terrorist act! Never ever is this true, my sons are innocent!"
"I'm very depressed. How am I going to live? Never I think in my mind this happen. My sons hate people who do bombs, they hate terrorists. Why they kill my son? And where is my other son?"
dailymail.co.ukWhat do the FBI have to say about claims of framing the suspects?
An FBI statement said that the FBI did not learn of the identity of Tamerlan and his brother until Friday after the gun battle in which Tamerlan was killed.
yahoo.comWhen the two ethnic Chechen suspects were identified, the FBI said it reviewed its records and found that in early 2011, a foreign government had asked for information about Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
yahoo.comThe FBI said it was told that Tsarnaev was a "follower of radical Islam" and was preparing to travel to this foreign country to join unspecified underground groups.
yahoo.com19-year-old suspect regains consciousness
Federal prosecutors prepared criminal charges yesterday against an ethnic Chechen suspect as he lay severely wounded, unable to speak & hospitalised under heavy guard.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, who suffered damage to his tongue when shot through the throat (also shot in the leg), regained consciousness & is responding in writing to questions put to him by authorities.
Dzhokhar remains hospitalized under heavy guard.
sify.comResidents celebrate as police capture suspects
Spectators celebrate as law enforcement officers leave the scene near Franklin Street.
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April 19, 2013 A police officer gives a thumbs up to another in Watertown, Mass., after a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing was captured. Craig Ruttle / AP
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April 19, 2013 Watertown residents along Arsenal Street cheer for police officers after the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Matt Campbell / European Pressphoto Agency
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People wave U.S. flags as police drive down the street in Watertown, Massachusetts, on Friday, April 19. The arrest of suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev followed a massive manhunt less than a week after two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, shocking the nation and leaving the city on edge.
Image via imgur.comPolice shouted, "Yay!" Neighbors clapped. Residents and reporters who had been anxiously waiting on a nearby corner saw a concrete sign of progress.
cnn.com"CAPTURED!!!" one post said. "The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody."
in.comSurviving Boston blast suspect named as Dzhokhar A Tsarnaev following shootout that left other suspect (his brother) and police officer dead
Metro Swat members prepare to search the School and Walnut Street neighborhood for one remaining suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (bottom right). Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev (bottom left) has been killed by the police
Image via independent.co.ukThe first hard reports about the identities of the Boston Marathon bombin are coming out. NBC reports that the two suspects are brothers, and they are reportedly of Chechen background.
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They have been repotedly here legally. They are NOT, as previously speculated by some, connected to a missing Brown University student, an Indo-American.
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Both suspects are reportedly from a Russian region near Chechnya and have been living in the US for at least a year.
Update: After gunfight, one Boston Marathon bombing suspect is dead, another on the run
US police are hunting a suspect in Monday's deadly Boston Marathon bombing, after a car-chase and shoot-out in which police say one suspect was killed.
Shootout at MIT in connection with Boston marathon bombing, 1 suspect in Custody, another on the loose
At 10:48 PM on Thursday night, shots were reported fired on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Image via dailymail.co.ukA man suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings on Monday has been captured after a firefight with police, The Boston Globe reported.
Chaotic: This was the hurried scene at Watertown - a suburb of Boston after a campus police officer was gunned down at MIT
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Drama: The dramatic moment a suspect was arrested at gunpoint by police in Watertown after reports of a gun battle and explosions
Image via dailymail.co.ukMassive gun battle fought between two men and dozens of police in the Watertown suburb of Boston. Explosives and grenades were used in desperate firefight.
Suspect two (left) and suspect one (right) who are wanted for questioning in relation to the Boston Marathon bombing on April 15th are seen in handout photo released through the FBI website
Image via imgur.comAccording to the official with knowledge of the investigation, one suspect has been captured and another remains on the loose in Watertown after the firefight, the Boston Globe reported.
The development comes as police engaged in a gunfight, with explosions heard, in Watertown, across the Charles River from Boston.
freep.comUpdated: Redditors falsely accuse missing Indian-American Sunil Tripathi as Boston blast suspect
Sunil Tripathi (center) with his older siblings. The FBI has been involved with Sunil's case.
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Sunil Tripathi with his mother. Sunil, described as 6 feet, 2 inches tall and 130 pounds, was last seen wearing a black ski jacket, jeans, a Philadelphia Eagles wool hat and thin black-rimmed glasses.
Image via imgur.comSunil Tripathi, the man who the Boston police has allegedly named as one of the two suspects who are police think are related to the recent spate of violence in the area.
bhaskar.comThe FBI has been looking for the 22-year-old Indian-American Sunil Tripathi, an undergraduate Brown University student who went missing on March 16.
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FBI Releases Photos Of Two Suspects
At a 5pm press conference, the FBI released photos of two people they hope to question in relation to Monday's Boston Marathon bombing. The two people are clearly referred to as suspects.
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Call 1-800-CALL-FBI if you have any tips, or send them through their website, here!
FBI shreds the media over unverified Boston marathon reports
The FBI just released a scathing statement slamming media organizations for erroneously reporting that a suspect had been taken into custody in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings.
Image via imgur.comConflicting reports on Boston Marathon bombing suspect's arrest
Observe these tweets from Boston Globe. Note the bottom tweet and the top.
Image via businessinsider.comConflicting report emerged from multiple media outlets Wednesday on whether a suspect has been arrested in the Boston Marathon bombing case.
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Reports of the arrest of a Boston Marathon Bomber are already turning into a media SNAFU
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The cable news network reported Wednesday afternoon that an arrest had been made based on two videos showing images of the suspect, citing a federal law enforcement source.
katv.comThe Boston Globe is reporting that authorities have an image of the suspect carrying and possibly dropping a black bag at the second bombing scene.
Local paper names Chinese grad student as 3rd victim in Boston blasts
The third person killed in the Boston Marathon bombings was a Chinese graduate student at Boston University originally from China's northeastern city of Shenyang.
Lu and 2 friends were watching the race near the finish line when the explosions occurred. One of her friends, BU grad student Zhou Danling, was seriously injured in the blasts.
BU and the Chinese Consulate General in NY have said the victim was a graduate student at the school, but the consulate said her family asked that no personal details be disclosed.
nytimes.comBoston media quoted a Chinese Consulate General official as saying Chinese national Lu Lingzi was missing in the wake of Monday’s bombings that killed three and wounded more than 170 people.
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Krystle Campbell, 29, identified as 2nd Boston Marathon victim
A father's relief turned to despair through a misidentification of his daughter, who he was led to believe had survived Monday's bombings at the Boston Marathon even though she had died.
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The woman, Krystle Marie Campbell, 29, a restaurant manager originally from Medford, Mass., died as a result of the explosions at the race Monday afternoon
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Bombs suspected to be made out of ordinary kitchen pressure-cookers
In the first picture you can see a bag next to a mailbox and up against a barricade along the marathon route. In the second, which we have blurred because it is very graphic, there is no sign of the bag. The viewer who took the pictures says there may be an hour or more between when the first and second pictures were taken.
Image via whdh.comFederal agents zeroed in Tuesday on how the Boston Marathon bombing was carried out — with kitchen pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails and other lethal shrapnel.
yahoo.comForensic experts said the marking “6L,” indicating a six-liter container, could help identify a brand and manufacturer and possibly lead to information on the buyer.
nytimes.comHe urged people to come forward with anything suspicious, such as hearing someone express a desire to attack the marathon, someone carrying a dark heavy bag at the race..
yahoo.com“One after another, you see this individual really fleeing from the scene, which is either for one or two reasons. So either he was badly burned and panicked, and fleeing, or he was fleeing."
whdh.com8-year-old blast victim identified as Martin Richard; 6-year-old sister lost her leg
Martin Richard was standing near the finish line, waiting to give his father a hug for completing the grueling Boston Marathon on Monday, when an explosion took his life.
Richard’s mother had surgery Monday night after getting a brain injury from the blast. It was reported to be a grace, serious injury. His 6-year-old sister lost her leg in the blast.
whdh.comWitnesses described the ‘unspeakable horror’ of body parts flying through the air and shoes that 'still had flesh in them'.
dailymail.co.ukFive Malaysians were in the marathon
57-year-old aircraft maintenance engineer Lim Kian Huat (pic), who finished his run 30 minutes before the blast, said he was not clear on what exactly transpired when the bombing occurred
malaysiandigest.com"I thank my lucky stars that I barely escaped from becoming a victim," said Lim Kian Huat, a 57-year-old Malaysian.
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"I'm just staying in my hotel right now because there's havoc everywhere. You can hear the sirens of the ambulances and police cars, and roads are sealed in the city," he said.
malaysiandigest.comThe Malaysian Athletics Union (MAU) has confirmed that it did not send any Malaysian runner to take part in the 117th Boston Marathon which claimed three lives.
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Boston Police deny 20-year-old Saudi Arabian national as prime suspect, investigations continue
Fox News said authorities had not determined whether the person was a victim or perpetrator. The person is reportedly a Saudi national in the US on a student visa.
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Swat officers stand guard at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston after two explosions rocked the Boston Marathon.
Image via guim.co.ukBoston Police Commissioner Edward Davis said “There is no suspect. There are people we’re talking to.”
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1,000 NYPD members assigned to counter-terrorism on high alert
Authorities in Washington also heightened security following initial reports of the explosions, according to a spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Police.
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"I have directed state agencies, including the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, State Police, the MTA and the Port Authority, to be on a heightened state of alert..."
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The NYPD dispatched counterterrorism units to major landmarks and tourist hot spots almost immediately after the horrific tragedy, lining the streets of Times Square.
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Police and counter-terrorism officials on high alert for London Marathon this Sunday
British security officials were watching events in Boston closely last night. One security source said that it would be important to understand whether the explosions were connected with international or Islamist terrorism or stemmed from domestic US extremism, as was the case with the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995 in which Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people when he detonated a truck bomb in front of a federal building.
Image via thetimes.co.ukThe London Marathon is the world’s largest, attracting more than 37,000 entries last year and 650,000 spectators. It has long been considered a potential terrorist target.
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Senior officers at Scotland Yard and counter-terrorism officials are understood to have held discussions on whether to upgrade security measures for the funeral of Lady Thatcher tomorrow.
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Security for Sunday's London Marathon is being reviewed after Monday's explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killed at least two people
Boston Marathon: Two dead, dozens injured in explosions at the finish line
A man is loaded into an ambulance after he was injured by one of two bombs exploded during the 117th Boston Marathon near Copley Square on April 15, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. Two people are confirmed dead and at least 23 injured after two explosions went off near the finish line to the marathon. (Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty Images)
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Medical workers aided injured people at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon on Monday after an explosion.
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The explosions at the Boston Marathon went off more than four hours after the start of the men's race, which meant that there were still several thousand runners yet to finish the race.
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terbakor.com2 bombs exploded near the finish of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing at least 2 people, injuring at least 23 others and sending authorities rushing to aid wounded spectators
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Competitors and race volunteers were crying as they fled the chaos. Bloody spectators were being carried to the medical tent that had been set up to care for fatigued runners.
The streets were littered with debris and blood and paramedics raced off with stretchers as police locked down the area, witness said.
google.comTV footage showed an explosion sending up a white plume of smoke along the sidelines of the race. Boston police confirmed the toll of dead and wounded on its Twitter feed.
google.comPoliticians, celebs react to Boston marathon blasts
Vice President Joe Biden: "Our prayers are with those people in Boston who have suffered injuries. I don’t know how many there are."
Image via imgur.comThe incident sparked an outpouring of reaction from politicians, who released statements and took to Twitter expressing their support for the victims
Twitter has responded with prayers for those affected, with large number of politicians and bureaucrats reacting to it.
Country stars like Lady Antebellum, Scotty McCreery, the Band Perry and Lee Brice took to Twitter to send prayers toward those involved.