Boston Suspects Identified
Police early this morning apprehended one of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing case. The second suspect remained at large following a shootout in Watertown, a Boston suburb about four miles away from the bombing site.
Police identified the suspects as Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, ethnic Chechen brothers from Dagestan, which neighbors Chechnya in southern Russia. Tamerlan, wearing the black hat in the Marathon photos released earlier Thursday by the FBI, apparently died following the gun battle with officers, Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis confirmed. There were unconfirmed reports that he died from a suicide bomb strapped to his chest that he detonated upon his arrest. He was pronounced dead at Mt. Auburn Hospital, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds as well as blast wounds to his trunk.
Dzhokhar, wearing the white hat in the FBI photos, had not been apprehended as of 4 am Eastern time, but police had established a 20-block perimeter around Watertown and were undertaking an extensive manhunt to find him.
Watertown residents reported hearing gunfire as well as explosions through the night. The chaos began shortly after 10 pm when the two suspects reportedly shot and killed a police officer on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They subsequently carjacked a Mercedes SUV in Cambridge, leading police on a wild chase through Watertown that ended in the firefight. The suspects were said to have been armed with machine guns and explosive devices. Here’s one report from Watertown.
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Police scanner chatter from Watertown. Residents were being advised to remain in their homes as fears persisted that the suspects might have planted makeshift bombs. A cache of detonator wires were found, and police dispatched robots to scour for devices.
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