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It has been two weeks aback two bootleg bombs exploded abreast the accomplishment band of the Boston Marathon, killing three bodies and acid 260.
In those two weeks, we accept abstruse abundant about what happened and why.
We accept abstruse about the innocent victims of the attack, as able-bodied as about the deranged adolescent brothers who allegedly agitated it out.
We accept watched a affecting 24-hour manhunt that bedridden the burghal and assured with one brother asleep and the added alone to a hospital bed.
The adventure of what happened in Boston has emerged gradually, with new admonition actualization daily. Aboriginal inaccurate letters accept been revised, and aboriginal mysteries accept been resolved. There are still some questions to answer, but afterwards two weeks, the annual is advancing into bluff focus.
The adventure beneath is what we apperceive so far. It is based on beholder statements and photos, columnist conferences, a bent complaint, and the advertisement of added than a dozen media organizations, including this one. (Please see the aftermost folio of this adventure for specific sources and credits.)
The Richard Family
On Monday, April 15, 2013, an 8-year-old boy declared Martin Richard went to the Boston Chase with his family. It was a admirable bounce day. About 2:45 p.m. that afternoon, Martin was continuing up on a guardrail on Boylston Avenue to get a bigger accessory at the chase runners advancing the accomplishment line.
Martin admired sports. He was a Red Sox fan, and he played Little League. He had a big atramentous infielder's glove, and he listened anxiously to his coaches. Martin's Little League team, the Rangers, had been practicing for their aboriginal bold of the season, which was the aftermost Saturday in April. Martin would never comedy in that game.
The picture beneath shows Martin Richard in the aftermost few abnormal of his life, continuing on the guardrail abreast the chase accomplishment line. Martin's ancestor Bill, his mother Denise, and his 7-year-old sister Jane are with him. reddit/MelGibsonDerp
Remarkably, this annual additionally shows the haversack absolute the bomb that was about to annihilate Martin, as able-bodied as the man who allegedly buried it. Briefly accepted as “Suspect 2,” the man in the white baseball hat in the accomplishments is 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, an American academy apprentice from Cambridge. Dzhokhar has allegedly aloof placed the haversack abreast the guardrail and is walking away.
Like the Richards, Dzhokhar had accustomed at this, his targeted location, at about 2:45 p.m. Anon thereafter, authorities say, he confused to the guardrail and alone the haversack assimilate the ground. Afterwards walking accomplished the Richards and added spectators, Dzhokhar loitered in advanced of the Forum restaurant at 755 Boylston Avenue for about four minutes, attractive occasionally at his corpuscle buzz and already actualization to booty a annual with it. Eventually, at 2:49 p.m., Dzhokhar aerial the buzz to his ear.
A few abnormal later, bottomward the street, a bomb exploded.
That bomb was allegedly fabricated and placed by Dzhokhar's 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan. Like the one in Dzhokhar's backpack, it was a bootleg “improvised atomic device” — a burden cooker abounding with gunpowder, brawl bearings, and nails.
The bomb was advised to annihilate and batter people, and it did. It additionally created a aggressive and bang that could be heard up and bottomward Boylston Street.
At the complete of the explosion, about anybody continuing on Boylston Avenue abreast Dzhokhar Tsarnaev affronted their active and looked bottomward the avenue in admiration and alarm.
But not Dzhokhar.
Dzhokhar remained calm, as admitting annihilation had happened.
After the explosion, amidst the confusion, Dzhokhar rapidly began walking west, abroad from the chase accomplishment line. The haversack he had placed abreast the guardrail was still on the ground. Twelve abnormal afterwards the aboriginal bomb went off, the bootleg pressure-cooker bomb central Dzhokhar's backpack exploded.
Shrapnel from the additional bomb tore through the Richard ancestors and added bodies nearby, actually alarming them apart. The bomb asleep 8-year-old Martin Richard. It tore off his sister Jane's leg. It put his mother in the hospital with a austere academician injury. It blew off limbs, ripped gashes in dozens of people, and sprayed blood, flesh, and cartilage all over the sidewalk.
The abashing acquired by the bombs affronted Boylston Avenue into a war zone. The photos of the blasts and the anarchic and appalling moments that followed are unforgettable.
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In the anarchy that followed the blasts, a arresting affair happened.
Despite the accident that added bombs adeptness backfire anywhere at any time, policemen, chase volunteers, doctors, and assemblage anon descended on the annihilation and began allowance those who had been bedridden and hurt. Firefighters began analytic aimlessly for a accounted third bomb. Runners chock-full active to admonition victims. These and added quick responses adored several bodies who adeptness contrarily accept bled to death.
A 27-year-old declared Jeff Bauman, for example, had both legs absolute off beneath the knee. A chase beholder declared Carlos Arredondo, who had absent one of his sons in the Iraq war and the added to suicide, was accessory the chase to abutment a abettor anniversary his sons. Arredondo affronted a bolt tourniquet about one of Bauman's legs and bankrupt Bauman's bleeding avenue bankrupt on the other. Moments later, Arredondo, still cutting his cowboy hat, helped two others caster Bauman against a medical tent.
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A chase advance declared E.J. Occhiboi, who was volunteering two blocks abroad from the marathon's accomplishment line, saw a medical covering aloof to amusement chase finishers and sprang into activity with the wounded.
One eyewitness who'd been rushed into the covering had a deep, three-inch-wide cleft in his leg with a allotment of armament afraid out of it.
“You could aloof see ... a block of his hamstring was gone,” Occhiboi said.
A 17-year-old declared Sydney Corcoran had a cleft broken in her femoral artery, an abrasion that you don't survive for connected afterwards help. Sydney's mother, Celeste, absent both of her legs beneath the knee.
Up and bottomward Boylston Street, volunteers, runners, firefighters, policemen, and medical cadre rushed to admonition the victims of the bombs. This acknowledgment was one of the aboriginal of abounding alarming moments that would activity in Boston over the abutting bristles days.
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Over the abutting several hours, there were common rumors and letters of added bombs. Authorities were briefly afraid that a third bomb had been placed beneath the grandstand, and firefighters searched badly for it. A blaze in the JFK library was initially affiliated to the bombings. Backpacks and added accouterments alone by beat spectators, or aloof absent in the confusion, had to be searched, for abhorrence that they independent added bombs.
As chat advance of the horror, ancestors and accompany of runners and assemblage began aggravating to accomplish associate with their admired ones, atrocious to accomplish abiding that aggregate was OK. The cellular networks didn't work, however, so abounding of these admonition attempts failed.
In best cases, this abrupt agitation assured as it did for the man and woman beneath — in joy and relief. In abounding added cases, however, it didn't.
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In all, 260 bodies were blood-soaked by the blasts. Three were killed.
Speaking from the White Abode Monday evening, President Barack Obama vowed that those amenable for the attacks would be found.
Police had no suspects, however. No motive. And no leads.
Tuesday
As the actual abhorrence of the bombings passed, the focus affronted to the victims.
The aboriginal accepted afterlife was 8-year-old Martin Richard.
When Martin's father, Bill Richard, alternate to the family's abode in Dorchester Monday night, he was still cutting hospital scrubs. A associate asked if he was okay. He didn't respond. A associate who had apprenticed Bill home explained that Martin was the adolescent who had died. The associate said her “heart aloof fell.”
The Richards were acutely complex in the Dorchester community, and Martin's afterlife was acquainted far above the family. On Tuesday, Bill Richard fabricated his aboriginal accessible statement:
“My baby son Martin has died from injuries abiding in the advance on Boston. My wife and babe are both convalescent from austere injuries. We acknowledge our ancestors and friends, those we apperceive and those we accept never met, for their thoughts and prayers.”
Martin Richard's wide, gap-toothed smile bound became a defining angel of the tragedy. Mourners larboard flowers, blimp animals, and “Peace” signs in the Richard family's driveway.
Another photo of Martin additionally went viral.
In the photo, Richard is captivation up a assurance he fabricated afterwards acquirements of the afterlife of Trayvon Martin.
“No added affliction people,” it reads. “Peace.”
“The access of adulation and abutment over the aftermost anniversary has been tremendous,’’ Bill and Denise Richard would afterwards say afterwards burying their son. “This has been the best difficult anniversary of our lives and we acknowledge that our accompany and ancestors accept accustomed us amplitude to ache and heal.’’
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Krystle Campbell, 29 — who had gone to the chase with her associate Karen Rand to watch Rand's admirer cantankerous the accomplishment band — was the additional bombing victim to be identified.
A restaurant administrator from Arlington, Krystle made accompany easily, and kept them: She had been a bridesmaid in 17 altered weddings. At her job at Jimmy's Steer House, she oversaw a dining allowance agents of 45 servers, and she was accepted for her adeptness to handle difficult customers. Krystle's grandmother Lillian told Sports Illustrated that her beatitude was so communicable that “no one could be depressed about her.”
Krystle went to the chase every year. The day of the bombings, accepting not heard from her, Krystle's ancestors went to Massachusetts General Hospital to accessory for her. To their abundant relief, they were told that Krystle was hurt, but alive. For abounding hours, doctors occasionally emerged from an operating allowance to acquaint Krystle's parents, William and Patty, how she was doing. At 2 a.m., the Campbells were assuredly accustomed into a accretion allowance to see Krystle. It was there that they credible that the accommodating the doctors had been alive to save was not Krystle, but her friend, Karen Rand, who had absent a leg. Krystle, the Campbells anon learned, was dead.
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Friends of addition adolescent woman, a 23-year-old Boston University alum apprentice declared Lingzi Lu, had additionally been analytic aimlessly for her aback the bombs went off.
They began announcement to Facebook and Twitter on Monday afternoon. Lingzi had gone to the marathon, they said, and now she was missing. Lingzi's accompany acquaint pictures of her online and begged bodies to admonition acquisition her. The abutting morning, accepting heard nothing, Lingzi's associate at BU and added accompany went attractive for her. They catholic from hospital to hospital until they accomplished the Boston Medical Center, breadth they abstruse that doctors were alleviative an anonymous Asian woman who was not able-bodied abundant to be seen.
Lingzi's associate and accompany waited for hours at the hospital, alone to learn, as Krystle Campbell's parents had, that the accommodating actuality advised was not Lingzi. And afresh they abstruse that Lingzi was dead.
Lingzi was from a burghal in northeastern China declared Shenyang. Her accompany declared her as “a affectionate adolescent woman with a affection for music who hoped to acquisition adulation in America.” Her agents declared her as “bubbly” and as an aberrant student. The day afore she was killed, Lingzi abstruse that she had anesthetized a key allotment of an assay adapted for her amount in statistics.
Lingzi's afterlife was not about confirmed until Wednesday. Anon afterward, added than 14,000 comfort addendum had already been acquaint to her folio on China's adaptation of Twitter, Sina Weibo. Her parents called her afterlife a “dagger to the heart.”
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On the aforementioned day that Lingzi Lu's accompany were analytic for her, one of the men who had allegedly asleep her, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, alternate to his accustomed activity as a apprentice at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
In what adeptness be declared as a case abstraction on the boiler of evil, Dzhokhar formed out at the academy gym on Tuesday night. He played FIFA soccer on an Xbox in his abode room. He smoked pot, which is something other acceptance said he frequently did. And he resumed his common postings on Twitter.
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Dzhokhar's aboriginal Cheep afterwards the bombings had appeared at 5:04 p.m. on Monday afternoon, alone two hours and 20 annual afterwards the bombs exploded:
“Ain't no adulation in the affection of the city, breach safe people,” it read.
Later that evening, Dzhokhar's tweets continued. The user Dzhokhar was acknowledging to beneath has aback deleted the account, so it's not bright what Dzhokhar was talking about, but the average tweet, especially, is chilling:
@J_tsar
At 9:34 p.m. on Monday atramentous — seven hours afterwards the bombings — Dzhokhar assured his accessible statements for the day. His final cheep appears to afford some ablaze into his accompaniment of mind:
@T_tsar
Dzhokhar resumed his tweeting on Tuesday morning. He responded to added Twitter users, giving one admonition to use “Claritin Clear.” He additionally provided some annotation about the bombings, deeming one adventure “fake.” And he tweeted some lyrics from the rapper Emininem cogent the activity that what best accustomed bodies allocution about is “gibberish.”
Toward the end of the day, Dzhokhar additionally proudly arise that he was “a accent chargeless affectionate of guy.”
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev did not arise to accept been actively aggravating to “blend in” during the canicule afterwards the bombings. He aloof appeared to be accomplishing what he commonly did: Adhere out in the dorm. Assignment out. Go to class. Comedy video games. Outwardly, at least, the associate of allegedly acceptable a mass-murderer did not arise to accept afflicted him.
The behavior of Dzhokhar's brother Tamerlan in the canicule afterwards the bombings was beneath accessible than Dzhokhar's but conceivably no beneath mundane.
Tamerlan, 26, was affiliated to an American woman declared Katherine Russell, and they lived in an accommodation in Cambridge. Tamerlan, neighbors said, generally backward home and took affliction of his 3-year-old babe while his wife formed as a home bloom aide. Neighbors declared Tamerlan as affable and approachable and said he, too, generally played video games.
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In the canicule afterwards the bombings, Tamerlan reportedly shopped at Whole Foods. He took his babe to the park. He asked one associate whether the associate had “seen what happened,” referring to the bombings.
In short, Tamerlan seemed to do what he usually did.
By Tuesday evening, reporters from best above TV networks and account organizations had descended on Boston, atrocious for any admonition about the bombers.
The FBI and added authorities, however, had provided little new information. Special Abettor Rick Deslauriers from the FBI vowed that authorities would “go to the ends of the Earth” to acquisition those responsible, but he had annihilation new on leads or suspects.
Finally, on Wednesday afternoon, the media anticipation it had what the accomplished apple wanted: A bombing suspect.
Better yet, the doubtable had been apprehended and would now be marched in advanced of TV cameras for a perp walk.
Shortly afterwards noon, letters began trickling out that authorities had a doubtable in custody. In one of several above media gaffes during the week, CNN appear this information, along with the Associated Columnist and Boston Globe. The doubtable was actuality taken to the federal courthouse, some of these letters said, and media and assemblage descended on the place. Then, annual later, to the agitation of the CNN newsroom and millions of bodies about the world, the letters were retracted.
These media reports and others drew a belittling admonishment from the FBI, who afraid that the apocryphal letters could affect the advancing investigation.
“Over the accomplished day and a half, there accept been a cardinal of columnist letters based on admonition from actionable sources that has been inaccurate,” the FBI said. “Since these belief generally accept adventitious consequences, we ask the media, decidedly at this aboriginal date of the investigation, to exercise attention and advance to verify admonition through adapted official channels afore reporting.”
Unbeknownst to the media, the FBI did accept suspects by this time — they aloof didn't yet apperceive who they were.
Thanks to surveillance cameras abreast the arena of the bombings, and admonition gleaned from one of the survivors, the FBI was absorption on two men in baseball hats who were credible abrogation backpacks breadth the bombs exploded.
Some of the admonition board accustomed came from one of the men who was about asleep by the bombs — 27-year-old Jeff Bauman.
When Bauman woke up from surgery, afterwards accident both of his legs, he anon asked for a pen and paper.
“Bag, saw the guy, looked appropriate at me,” Jeff wrote, Jeff's brother Chris afterwards told Bloomberg.
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The man who looked into Jeff Bauman's eyes had been cutting a cap, sunglasses, and a atramentous anorak over a hooded sweatshirt. He had alone a bag at Jeff Bauman's feet. Two and a bisected annual later, the bomb in the bag had exploded, alarming off both Jeff's legs beneath the knees.
Although no one yet knew it, the man who had alone off the bag was Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
Later, aback the character of the suspects was released, a accord bound developed that Tamerlan Tsarnaev had been the active force abaft the bombings. His adolescent brother Dzhokhar, best accompany and ancestors agreed, had acceptable followed Tamerlan's lead.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev had emigrated with his ancestors from Dagestan, Russia, a decade earlier, aback Tamerlan was about 16. Tamerlan's grandparents had been built-in Chechens, who had been alone to Kyrgystan by the Stalin regime. Tamerlan's father, Anzor, was one of 10 siblings. His wife Zubeidat came from Dagestan, a republic of Russia. Anzor became a advocate and formed in the prosecutor's appointment in Bishkek, Kyrgystan. He and his wife had four children: Tamerlan, two daughters declared Ailina and Bella, and Dzhokhar.
According to a absolute contour of the ancestors by the Wall Avenue Journal, Anzor Tsarnaev was accursed from his job in 1999, afterwards the Kremlin approved to abolish an insurgency. To augment his family, Anzor formed as a mechanic. The ancestors confused to the basic of Dagestan, Makhachkala, and afresh to the United States.
The Tsarnaevs lived abreast Boston, on the bound amid Somerville and Cambridge, in a awkward third attic apartment. Already again, Anzor formed as a mechanic, generally acclimation cars on the avenue for $10 an hour. Anzor's wife, Zubeidat, became a beautician and gave facials at a spa. The ancestors accustomed aliment stamps and abundance payments. Tamerlan and Dzhokhar both abounding Cambridge Rindge & Latin aerial school. Tamerlan was said to be quiet and generally skipped class. His affection was boxing.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev (L) fights Lamar Fenner (R) during the 201-pound analysis battle bout during the 2009 Golden Gloves National Clash of Champions May 4, 2009 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Photo by Glenn DePriest/Getty Images
Tamerlan's ancestor Anzor had been a boxer, and Tamerlan followed in his footsteps and eventually became one of the best abecedarian boxers in the country. He won a New England bounded antagonism in 2009 and able for the National Golden Gloves tournament, breadth he absent in the aboriginal round. He won the bounded antagonism afresh the abutting year. He was declared as a bland but “cocky” and “arrogant” fighter, who seemed aloof of added competitors.
Tamerlan abounding association academy for a while, but he didn't accept a abiding job. And by 2009, he had developed addition passion: religion.
The Tsarnaev brothers' uncle Ruslan, who lives in Maryland and would afterwards boss arrangement television during the all-day manhunt for Dzhokhar, said that by 2009, Tamerlan had afflicted and was added “spewing this abolitionist crap.” Tamerlan was affronted by Muslim immigrants' attempts to “assimilate” into the United States. He berated associates of his bounded abbey and Muslim association who weren't as adherent as he anticipation they should be. In a battle contour that was broadly shared, Tamerlan was quoted as saying, “I don't accept a distinct American friend. I don't accept them.”
In 2009, Tamerlan was arrested for calm corruption afterwards slapping his girlfriend. In 2011, to his father's dismay, he additionally abdicate boxing. On September 11th of that year, in a case that has yet to be credible but is now accepting renewed scrutiny, one of Tamerlan's friends, Brendan Mess, was atrociously murdered in Waltham.
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Also in 2011, the Russian authorities reportedly taped a blast alarm amid one of the Boston suspects and his mother, Zubeidat, in which the affair of jihad was vaguely discussed. Zubeidat had abutting Tamerlan in his afire adherence to abolitionist Islam and had alternate to Russia afterwards she and Anzor had breach up.
Earlier that year, as Tamerlan requested permission to leave the United States to appointment Dagestan, the Russian authorities asked the FBI to investigate him. Neither the FBI nor the CIA begin annihilation account afterward up on.
Thursday
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President Barack Obama started out Thursday able that the U.S. would acquisition those amenable for the attacks.
That morning, Obama gave an affecting accent at an interfaith canonizing account at the Cathedral of the Holy Cantankerous in Boston, aspersing the “small, bantam individuals” abaft the attacks.
“Yes, we will acquisition you,” Obama said. “And yes, you will face justice.”
At that time, the FBI had not about appear if added than one actuality was abaft the attacks. But what had started out as a able analysis was stalling. The FBI had images of the two suspects, but it was afraid about activity accessible with them, for abhorrence of angled off the suspects and absolution them get away. By then, though, the FBI was additionally accepting afraid that the suspects would bang again.
On Thursday morning, the FBI abreast associates of the Obama Administration and Congress on the advance of the investigation. That afternoon, aback the breeze of able leads had run dry, the FBI absitively to absolution pictures of the suspects and admit the public's admonition in anecdotic them.
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At a account appointment anon afore 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, admiral credible chapped pictures of men they labeled “Suspect 1” and “Suspect 2.”
The pictures were advertisement on about every above television base and appear by about every online account alignment aural seconds.
The acknowledgment was immediate.
The absolution of the pictures set off a bent alternation acknowledgment that over the abutting 30 hours would advance to addition murder, a car-jacking, a abiding shootout, and a day-long manhunt that mirrored a real-life adventure of the television appearance “24.”
At 9:04 p.m. that evening, an associate of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's tweeted a closeup of one of the FBI's pictures at him, allegedly bold that the “Suspect 2” in the FBI photos alone looked like Dzhokhar:
“Lol... Is this you? I didnt apperceive you went to the marathon!!!”
By then, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan had allegedly connected aback ample out that their canicule of anonymity were over. If they had planned or able for this possibility, however, it absolutely didn't appearance in their accomplishments that evening.
Dzhokhar would afterwards acquaint board that the abstraction for the bombing itself had been spontaneous, which adeptness be why the brothers didn't alike bother to beard themselves as they allegedly absolved bottomward Boylston Avenue with their bombs.
And the brothers' accomplishments the night the pictures were appear appeared to be alike added spontaneous.
By mid-evening, the brothers were on the move. They surfaced in Cambridge.
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At about 10:20 p.m., a adolescent badge administrator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was sitting in his campus convoying car at the end of his eight hour shift. The patrolman, 27-year-old Sean Collier, was acclaimed and admired on campus. He had become accompany with some MIT acceptance and had gone hiking and skiing with them. He had additionally afresh been offered his dream job, a atom on the Somerville badge force, and would be demography it that summer.
That night, The New York Times reported, an ambulance staffed by acceptance collection accomplished Collier's anchored car. Collier flashed his dejected lights briefly to say hello, and the acceptance in the ambulance responded with a beam of their red ones.
Shortly thereafter, two men approached Collier's car from abaft and attempt him bristles times, including alert in the head. The shootings were not provoked. They were not a confrontation. They were, badge afterwards said, “an assassination.”
The motive for the cutting was at aboriginal mysterious, but would afterwards become clearer: The shooters may accept capital Collier's gun.
After killing Collier, badge say, the shooters approved to abduct the gun. But Collier had a triple-lock holster, and they couldn't amount out how to accessible it. So, already again, the Tsarnaevs are declared to accept asleep an innocent eyewitness for nothing.
A few annual later, the ambulance that had flashed its lights at Collier aloof afore he was attempt was declared aback to try to save his life. It was too late. Sean Collier had allegedly become the fourth actuality murdered in the Tsarnaevs' crusade.
Just afore 11 p.m. that night, about 25 annual afterwards Collier was killed, a 26-year-old Chinese administrator declared “Danny” was active his Mercedes SUV on Brighton Avenue in Cambridge aback he pulled over to acknowledgment a text. Danny had gotten a Masters in Engineering at Northeastern the year before, and now he formed at a startup. Initially, it wasn't bright absolutely what had happened to Danny that night, but a reporter declared Eric Moskowitz of the Boston Globe afterwards interviewed him and got the abounding story.
As Danny sat by the ancillary of the alley answering the text, a Honda Civic auto swerved up abaft him. A man jumped out of the car, approached Danny's Mercedes, and afresh agape on the passenger-side window.
The man was speaking rapidly, but Danny couldn't apprehend him well, so he formed bottomward the window. The man afresh accomplished through the window, afar the door, and climbed in. The man accepted money and acicular a argent blaster at Danny.
The man, authorities allege, was Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
“Don't be stupid,” Tsarnaev said.
Tsarnaev asked Danny if he had followed the contempo news.
“Did you apprehend about the Boston explosion?” Tsarnaev asked. “I did that. And I aloof asleep a policeman in Cambridge.”
Tsarnaev then removed a annual from his gun, showed Danny that he had a ammo in it, and re-inserted the magazine.
“I am serious,” he said.
Danny had alone $45 in cash, which had been blimp in an armrest, and a wallet abounding of acclaim cards. Acquirements this, Tsarnaev told Danny to drive.
As Danny drove, Tsarnaev told him breadth to go. Booty a appropriate on Fordham Road. Booty a appropriate on Commonwealth. As the Mercedes formed along, the Honda that Tsarnaev had jumped out of followed forth behind.
Danny's affection was antagonism so fast that he couldn't breach in his lane. Tsarnaev told him to relax.
They beyond the Charles River into Watertown. Tsarnaev begin Danny's ATM agenda in his wallet and accepted the ATM password. Afresh Tsarnaev directed Danny to a ancillary avenue in Watertown and told him to cull over.
When the SUV stopped, Tsarnaev got out and ordered Danny to move to the commuter seat. If Danny didn't comply, Tsarnaev fabricated clear, Tsarnaev would shoot him. Danny complied.
The Honda had chock-full abaft them, and now the driver, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, got out.
For a few minutes, the brothers transferred what Danny affected was “luggage” from the auto to the Mercedes. It affronted out to be bombs. Afresh Tamerlan Tsarnaev climbed into the driver's bench and Dzhokhar got into the aback abaft Danny. And the Mercedes pulled away.
They chock-full at the Watertown Center. Dzhokhar got out and withdrew banknote from an ATM application Danny's card. Sitting alone in the car with Tamerlan, Danny wondered whether this was his adventitious to escape. But all the food adjacent were aphotic and locked, so there was boilerplate to abscond to.
When Dzhokhar returned, Tamerlan told Danny that they both had guns. Danny never saw a additional gun, however, and admitting abounding aboriginal letters to the contrary, the badge never begin one.
The brothers began speaking to anniversary added in a adopted language. Danny bent one word: “Manhattan.”
Bizarrely, Tamerlan afresh asked Danny whether his car could be apprenticed out of state. Danny didn't understand. “Like New York,” one brother said.
The car connected west, against Waltham. The brothers accepted that Danny appearance them how to use the radio. As they addled through the stations, they abhorred the news, and aback they couldn't acquisition music they liked, they asked Danny whether he had any CDs. Danny didn't accept any CDs, he said — he listened to music on his iPhone.
In what would about-face out to be a advantageous break, the Mercedes' gas catchbasin was about empty. Tamerlan pulled up at a gas station, but the pumps were closed. He affronted the car about and headed aback against Boston. Eventually, Tamerlan alternate to the auto they had larboard in Watertown, and the brothers confused some added actuality out of it into the Mercedes.
This time, aback they started active again, one of the brothers produced a CD with music that Danny said articulate like a Average Eastern alarm to prayer.
Suddenly, Danny's iPhone bashed with an admission message. Eric Moskowitz of the Boston Globe describes what happened next:
[It was] a argument from his roommate, apprehensive in Chinese breadth he was. Barking at Danny for instructions, Tamerlan acclimated an English-to-Chinese app to argument a bulky reply.
“I am sick. I am sleeping in a friend’s abode tonight.”
In a moment, addition text, afresh a call. No one answered. Abnormal later, the buzz rang again.
“If you say a distinct chat in Chinese, I will annihilate you appropriate now,” Tamerlan said. Danny understood. His roommate’s admirer was on the added end, speaking Mandarin. “I’m sleeping in my friend’s home tonight,” Danny replied in English. “I accept to go.”
“Good boy,” Tamerlan said. “Good job.”
A few annual later, Danny assuredly saw his chance.
The SUV pulled up at a gas base on Soldiers Field Road. Dzhokhar got out to ample the tank, planning to pay with one of Danny's acclaim cards. A moment later, Dzhokhar rapped on the driver's ancillary window. “Cash only,” he said to Tamerlan.
Looking down, Tamerlan counted out $50 of banknote and handed it to Dzhokhar. Dzhokhar headed for the gas base appointment to pay.
Tamerlan's gun was in the driver's-side aperture well. Tamerlan was bribery with a GPS. Danny's reflexes took over:
“I was cerebration I charge do two things,” he told Moskowitz of the Globe. “Unfasten my bench belt and accessible the aperture and jump out as quick as I can. If I didn’t accomplish it, he would annihilate me appropriate out, he would annihilate me appropriate away. I aloof did it. I did it actual fast, application my larboard duke and appropriate duke accompanying to accessible the door, abstract my bench belt, jump out . . . and go.”
As Danny bailed out of the car, he heard the abashed Tamerlan yell, “Fuck!” And he acquainted Tamerlan accomplish a grab at him.
Danny didn't accessory back. He abject into the avenue and ran against the lights of a Mobil station. Reaching the station, Danny answerable central and told the abettor to alarm the police. Afresh he abject into a storeroom. The abettor initially anticipation Danny was drunk.
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“The aperture opened quickly,” the clerk, Tareq Ahmed, later told WHDH. “I anticipation it was a bashed man because of how he opened the door. I got up quick and capital to bawl at him and ask him why he would accessible the aperture like this. He fell bottomward appropriate there and afresh he said, ‘Please alarm the police. There are bodies who appetite to annihilate me. There are bodies who appetite me dead. They accept accoutrements and they accept a bomb.
“I affective the buzz and I fabricated abiding I was not panicking,” Ahmed continued. “I affirm to God I was authoritative the alarm and I was afraid that addition may aloof appear in and shoot me. I couldn’t alike accessory outside. I bankrupt my eyes and I was talking on the buzz assured afterlife at any minute. ... Just in case addition alfresco saw me moving, in case they doubtable I’m accomplishing article amiss central and they appear in. I capital to accomplish abiding aggregate looked normal.”
Ahmed dialed 911 and afresh took the buzz to Danny.
Across the street, the Tsarnaev brothers took off.
Because of the annihilation of Sean Collier beforehand in the evening, the breadth was abounding of police. Admiral accustomed at the Mobil base in minutes, and Danny told them what had happened. He told them that the Mercedes could be tracked application a Mercedes accessory system. He told them that his iPhone was still in the Mercedes and that it, too, could be tracked.
Danny had been captivated captive by the Tsarnaevs for about an hour and a half. His adventuresome escape had assuredly accustomed the badge the breach they needed. And, accustomed the brothers' credible ambition to drive to New York, it had possibly adored New York from a agitator attack.
By now, it was aboriginal Friday morning. The coursing for the Boston bombing suspects was added than four canicule old. And, finally, the Tsarnaevs' luck was about to appear to an end.
After Danny escaped, the Tsarnaevs alternate for a third time to the Honda auto they had been active afore they carjacked Danny's Mercedes. As they drove, the badge tracked the SUV application the Mercedes' GPS system.
At 12:42 a.m., a bagman arise that the Mercedes was in Watertown, abreast 89 Dexter Street.
A single Watertown officer, Joe Reynolds, replied.
“I'm appropriate abaft that vehicle,” he said.
The Sergeant on duty, John MacLellan, told Reynolds to adhere back, not to engage. Reynolds did not engage.
But suddenly, the SUV affronted a bend and chock-full in advanced of the Honda sedan. The brothers jumped out.
The suspects ambuscade abaft the SUV.Courtesy of Andrew Kitzenberg
“They jump out of the car and unload on our badge officer,” Boston badge arch Edward Deveau afterwards told CNN. “They both came out cutting — cutting guns, handguns. He's beneath absolute fire, actual abutting by. He has to jam it in about-face and try to get himself a little distance.”
Reynolds pulled aback from the shooting. Afresh Sergeant John MacLellan arrived. As MacLellan collection up the avenue in a Ford Expedition, a ammo hit the windshield. Both admiral got out of their cars and began battlefront aback at the brothers.
A third officer, Tim Menton, was on his way home from his about-face aback he heard the radio call. He raced to the circle of Laurel and Dexter streets. Aback he hit Dexter, a ammo blew through his windshield.
Watertown Sergeant Jeff Pugliese was additionally on his way home aback he heard the call. He, too, raced against the scene. Afresh two added admiral arrived.
At one point in the firefight, a Laurel Avenue citizen told the Globe, a policeman shouted against the brothers: “Give up! There's no way out! Accord up!”
Still cloistral abaft the Mercedes SUV, Tamerlan Tsarnaev shouted appropriate back:
“You appetite more? I accord you more!”
In a able maneuver, Sergeant MacLellan put his Expedition in aloof and let it cycle boring against the Tsarnaevs with its lights flashing. He hoped the brothers would anticipate he was still in it and shoot at it, application up admired ammunition. Meanwhile, he would be in a position to get a acceptable attempt at them.
Then the brothers began throwing explosives.
One was addition pressure-cooker bomb, which set off a huge access and blew the lid of the burden cooker into a adjacent car. Two added bombs exploded. Two added were duds.
“There are [expletive] bombs, they’ve got [expletive] IEDs,” one FBI abettor reportedly shouted, as he ran against the scene. “Everyone get your [expletive] phones off. No phones. They’ve got IEDs. [Improvised Atomic Devices]”
Meanwhile, Watertown Sergeant Jeff Pugliese went for position.
Instead of hasty appropriate into the firefight, Pugliese collection up a ancillary street. He ran through a backyard, scaled a alternation articulation fence, and afresh approached the Tsarnaevs from the side. He got aural 12 anxiety of Tamerlan Tsarnaev and started firing. Tamerlan affronted and accursed back.
Pugliese thinks he hit Tamerlan, acid him. Afresh Tamerlan ran out of ammunition, and threw his gun at Pugliese, hitting him in the arm.
Out of bullets and hurt, Tamerlan aback ran against the capital accumulation of officers. Pugliese, Reynolds, and MacLellan answerable Tamerlan, arrest him to the arena and afresh handcuffing him. Afresh they heard an agent roar.
Up the street, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was abaft the caster of the still-operable Mercedes. Turning about and accelerating rapidly, Dzhokhar collection beeline at the officers, his brother, and the badge barricade.
As the Mercedes approached, Pugliese, MacLellan, and Reynolds affable out of the way. Dzhokhar collection appropriate over Tamerlan, boring his anatomy about 30 feet. One Watertown citizen saw the lights of the SUV blunder up and bottomward as Dzhokhar hit his brother. Another, watching from her second-floor window, said Tamerlan was still affective aback the SUV afar from him. Tamerlan was lying on his belly, she said, aggravating to lift his head. At 12:48 a.m., Dzhokhar careened through the two badge cars at the end of the avenue and collection off into the darkness.
Police admiral airing abreast the shootout scene, Friday, April 19, 2013, in Watertown, Mass. AP Photo/Matt Rourke
The gunfight had lasted about four minutes. Added than 250 shots had been fired, the all-inclusive majority of which had acceptable appear from the police. The abutting day, aback badge searched the scene, they begin alone one argent blaster of the brothers' — Tamerlan's. In addition adumbration of the Tsarnaevs' abridgement of preparedness, they additionally begin a BB gun.
A Transit Authority officer, Richard Donahue, was acutely blood-soaked in the firefight. A attestant told the Globe that badge admiral had been battlefront from abaft Donahoe, and it's accessible that the ammo that hit Donahue came from them. (The D.A. is investigating.) Donahue was hit in the femoral artery, and actual about died. Alone the atrocious efforts of several badge admiral to stanch the bleeding, get Donahue into an ambulance, accomplish chest compressions, and drive the ambulance to Mount Auburn hospital adored his life.
After beat the firefight, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev collection the aged SUV about a bisected a mile, to the bend of Spruce and Lincoln Streets.
Then he took off on foot.
Dzhokhar was blood-soaked — he had what appeared to be armament wounds, conceivably from the brothers' bombs, on his neck, ear, and thigh — and the badge begin claret in the SUV. They additionally begin claret and urine in a adjacent yard.
But for addition 16 hours, that would be all they would find.
According to a Watertown resident, the badge were alone about 45 abnormal abaft Dzhokhar as he sped abroad from the scene. Soon, they were alive the neighborhood, activity abode to house. They set up a command column in the Arsenal mall. They searched the alone SUV. They began allegory the arena of the firefight. They drew up a five-sector chase grid, with a 20-block ambit about the SUV. They searched hundreds of houses. They bare and alone a man who seemed apprehensive (the acclaimed “naked man” that abounding TV admirers and agenda sleuths were assertive was Tamerlan), and afresh bent that he was a resident. And they kept analytic in arrogant for Dzhokhar, who had abolished into the night.
REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi
By morning, an estimated 1,000 badge admiral were adrift the streets of Watertown, including SWAT teams and the National Guard. Badge were active bottomward every tip that came in, including abounding that came from crazy or batty people. Association said the badge searched everywhere, sometimes assorted times, but some association additionally said they didn't do a decidedly absolute analytic job.
One citizen abreast breadth Dzhokhar was eventually found, for example, showed badge into a barn and had to admonish them to advance that they chase the basement. Addition citizen said a policeman shone a flashlight at a person-sized aperture in the crawl-space beneath his abode — but afresh never agitated to accessory in it. And no one, apparently, anticipation to accessory in a ample covered baiter in the backyard of a abode on Franklin Avenue declared “Slip Abroad 2.”
Meanwhile, the absolute burghal of Boston had been shut down.
Public busline accomplished operating. The Red Sox and Bruins abecedarian were cancelled. Schools were closed. Association were asked to breach in their homes.
For a accomplished day, with the barring of the ceaseless activity in Watertown, the burghal became a apparition town.
At 6 p.m. on Friday, afterwards 15 hours of abortive searching, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick told bodies they could assuredly leave their houses. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had disappeared. It was time for activity to acknowledgment to normal.
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Over on Franklin Street, Watertown citizen David Henneberry was animated to assuredly be able to go outside.
He had been attractive at his boat, the Slip Abroad 2, out his windows all day, and article had been bugging him about it.
Two pads that he had put beneath the boat's shrink-wrap awning to stop badinage had collapsed to the ground. It had been windy, so he didn't anticipate this was strange, but he capital to put the pads back.
Henneberry went alfresco and put the pads back. The band captivation the shrink-wrap bottomward was additionally loose, but the wind could accept done that, too. So Henneberry anchored the band and alternate to his house.
But article was still bugging him.
So he went aback alfresco to analysis out the baiter again.
This time, Henneberry got a ladder, and climbed up. He formed aback the shrink-wrap and looked in the boat. Afresh he saw blood. A lot of it.
He didn't think, “Holy crap, I've begin the bomber!”
He thought, “Did I cut myself aftermost time?”
Then he looked further into the boat, abaft the agent block. And afresh he saw Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Henneberry doesn't apperceive whether he knew the anatomy he saw in his baiter was Tsarnaev's, but he didn't stop to anticipate about it too hard. He additionally “didn't ask him if he capital a cup of coffee.”
Henneberry doesn't bethink aggressive aback bottomward the ladder or calling 911.
But, soon, the badge were there, and he and his wife were actuality escorted off the property.
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There were anon letters and videos of addition acute firefight amid the doubtable and badge on Franklin Street. All of that firing, however, came from the police. Addition started shooting, a Superintendent afterwards explained, and afresh lots of added bodies started shooting, and afresh the Superintendent yelled “Hold your fire!” By that time, the Slip Abroad 2 looked like Swiss cheese.
The badge accustomed addition command column adjacent and accommodating an access on the boat.
Nearly three hours later, at 8:45 p.m. on Friday evening, bristles canicule afterwards he and his brother had allegedly absolute afar men, women, children, friends, and families abreast the accomplishment band of Boston marathon, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was assuredly in custody.
He could face the afterlife penalty.
This adventure was accounting by Brett LoGiurato and Henry Blodget. Additional advertisement was provided by Michael Kelley, Adam Taylor, Joe Weisenthal, Julia LaRoche, Gus Lubin, Erin Fuchs, Grace Wyler, and added Business Insider staff. Business Insider's abounding advantage of the chase bombings is here.
The adventure draws on the advertisement of abounding journalists and belief appear by added account organizations over the accomplished two weeks. The Boston Globe, New York Times, Wall Avenue Journal, CNN, NBC, and bounded account sources were decidedly helpful. The belief we drew capacity from included the following:
102 Hours In Pursuit Of Chase Suspects, by the Boston Globe staff. (This is an accomplished adventure of the absolute week.)
Clerk Helps Man Carjacked By Bombing Suspects, by Janet Wu of WHDH.
Bomb Hero Who Absent Both Legs Gave 18th Birthday Gift To Teen Blood-soaked Alongside Him, by Hayley Peterson, Mail Online.
Watertown Baiter Owner Tells Adventure Of Finding Boston Chase Suspect, by Ed Harding, Newscenter 5.
Valor, Adherence Brought Watertown Drama To End, by Kevin Cullen, Boston Globe.
Watertown Badge Arch "Amazed At How Abundant Ammunition" Bombing Suspects Had, by KARE 11.
Lone Administrator Confronted Chase Suspects In Firefight, Arch Says, by Pete Williams, et al, NBC News.
Boston Manhunt Began With Acute Firefight In Aphotic Street, by Melissa Gray, CNN.
Carjacking Victim Describes Harrowing Night, by Eric Moskowitz, Boston Globe.
"Dedicated Officer" Gunned Bottomward By Boston Suspects At MIT, by Elizabeth Chuck and Miranda Leitsinger, NBC News
Tamerlan Tsarnaev: "I Don't Accept A Distinct American Friend," by David Weigel, Slate.
Turn To Adoration Breach Suspects' Home, by Alan Cullison, Paul Sonne, Anton Troianovski, and David George-Cosh, Wall Avenue Journal.
BU Student's Activity Ends In Burghal She Had Grown To Love, by Evan Allen, Boston Globe.
Third Victim Articular As Chinese Apprentice Lingzi Lu, by David Knowles, New York Circadian News.
Martin Richard Epitomized Spirit Of His Community, Little League, by Pete Thamel, Sports Illustrated.
Thousands Band Streets As Aboriginal Bomb Victim Is Laid To Rest, by Circadian Mail staff.
Krystle Campbell Was A Adolescent Woman Anybody Seemed To Love, by David Epstein, Sports Illustrated.
Boston Bomb Victim Helped Identify Suspect, by Asjylyn Loder and Esme Deprez, Bloomberg.
Officer's Killing Spurred Pursuit In Boston Attack, by Wendy Ruderman, Serge Kovaleski, and Michael Cooper, New York Times.
