Boston Marathon bombing
| Boston Marathon bombing | |
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| Part of terrorism in the United States | |
The area of the first blast moments after the explosion
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Bombing: 671–673 and 755 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts Shooting: Corner of Vassar Street and Main Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts Firefight and manhunt: Watertown, Massachusetts |
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Bombing: April 15, 2013, 2:49 p.m. EDT Shooting: April 18, 2013, 10:48 p.m. Firefight and manhunt: April 19, 2013, 12:30 a.m. – 8:42 p.m. |
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6 total:
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Non-fatal injuries
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280 total:
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| Motive | Terrorism |
6 total:
280 total:
On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs detonated 12 seconds and 210 yards (190 m) apart at 2:49 p.m., near the finish line of the annual Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring several hundred others, including 16 who lost limbs.
On April 18 the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released images of two suspects, who were almost immediately identified as Chechen-American brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The brothers killed an MIT policeman, kidnapped a man in his car, and had a shootout with the police in nearby Watertown, during which two officers were severely injured, one of whom died a year later. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was shot several times, and his brother ran him over while escaping in the stolen car; he died soon after.
An unprecedented manhunt for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ensued on April 19, with thousands of law enforcement officers searching a 20-block area of Watertown, residents of Watertown and surrounding communities asked to stay indoors, and the transportation system and most businesses and public places closed. Around 6:00 p.m. a Watertown resident discovered Dzhokhar hiding in a boat in his backyard. He was shot in the boat and arrested.
During questioning Dzhokhar alleged that he and his brother were motivated by extremist Islamist beliefs and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, that they were self-radicalized and unconnected to any outside terrorist groups, and that he was following his brother's lead. He said they learned to build explosive devices from an online magazine of the al-Qaeda affiliate in Yemen. He also said they had intended to travel to New York City to bomb Times Square. On April 8, 2015 he was convicted of thirty charges, including use of a weapon of mass destruction and malicious destruction of property resulting in death, and the following month was sentenced to death.
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