Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, both described as jihadists, fled the scene, kicking off a four-day manhunt during which Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Officer Sean Collier was shot dead. Tamerlan died in a gunfight with police in Watertown, Massachusetts. An injured Dhzokhar, who ran over his brother as he drove away in a stolen Mercedes, was found hours later hiding in a boat parked in a nearby backyard.
A federal jury in Massachusetts convicted Tsarnaev, who was 19 at the time of the attack, on 30 counts and recommended the death penalty for six of them, including using weapons of mass destruction that killed people. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in July affirmed most of Tsarnaev's convictions but erased his capital sentences.
It found that the lower court wrongly denied requests from Tsarnaev's attorneys to have prospective jurors asked about their media exposure to the facts of the case during the jury-selection process. The appeals court also ruled that the district court erred by excluding evidence related to a triple murder in Waltham, Massachusetts, on the year anniversary of the Sept.
Tamerlan had been implicated in those attacks by his friend Ibragim Todashev. Stephen Silva pleaded guilty to possessing a gun similar to the one used by the bombing suspects to kill an MIT police officer. Branden Mattier allegedly attempted to defraud the relief effort by claiming that his long-dead aunt was injured in the Marathon attack.
The money will be given to individuals and families starting Sunday, marking the end of a crash campaign to help Marathon bombing victims. The sisters-in-law of dead Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev testified Thursday before a federal grand jury looking into the attack, their lawyer said. Watch the aftermath of the two explosions that rocked the finish line area at the marathon. A look at how events unfolded during the week.
Details emerged about the suspects after they were identified as brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. His mother and sister were also seriously injured at the site of the second bomb. Campbell, who grew up in Medford and moved about a year ago to Arlington, was on Boylston Street near the Marathon finish line with her friend Karen when the first bomb went off.
She was remembered as a hard worker who "was always right there if you needed her," her grandmother said. Lu, 23, a Boston University graduate student from the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang, was the third victim of the bombings and the last to be identified.
Sean Collier, 26, was shot multiple times in a late-night confrontation with, officials believe, the two men responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings. Many voices are calling for an independent investigation into the death of Ibragim Todashev amid shifting accounts of what happened in Orlando.
The girlfriend of one of three men brutally killed in a Waltham apartment in was the first to assert that police were aware that Tamerlan Tsarnaev had ties to the victims. A relative says he repeatedly warned Dzhokhar Tsarnaev about the bad influence of his older brother. The Department of Justice is prosecuting Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for federal crimes of terrorism. So what does TRIA say anyway? In order to answer that question, we have to briefly analyze some background information. Most of the losses were paid out by insurance companies, and the companies that actually opened their wallets were reinsurance companies.
After having to pay out all of those claims, the reinsurance companies withdrew from the terrorism coverage market. It was not profitable. Without reinsurance, and faced with the risk of actually having to pay out claims that premiums were already being collected on gasp , primary insurance companies began to exclude terrorism coverage. The Federal Government feared this made our country economically vulnerable. They were right. We'll find out why they did this.
Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups, will feel the full weight of justice. April 16, - Obama, speaking at the White House, describes the bombings as an act of terrorism. Officials confirm that there were only two bombs, despite earlier reports that other unexploded devices had been found.
Authorities, including bomb experts, search an apartment in Revere, Massachusetts, and remove items. Officials caution that there are no clear suspects and the motive remains unknown.
April 17, - A federal law enforcement official tells CNN that the lid to a pressure cooker thought to have been used in the bombings has been found on a rooftop at the scene. Purported miscommunication between government officials lead several news organizations, including CNN, to report prematurely that a suspect has been arrested and is in custody.
April 18, - Attorney Kenneth Feinberg, an expert on victim compensation, is announced as the administrator of the One Fund Boston, a fund to assist individuals affected by the attacks. At a press conference, the FBI releases pictures of the suspects they are seeking in connection with the bombings. The suspects are later identified as brothers, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Late in the evening, Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier is shot and killed on campus.
Soon after, Tsarnaev brothers carjack a driver in Cambridge. The driver is released about 30 minutes later. As the police chase them, Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev throw explosives out the windows and exchange gunfire with officers. Tamerlan is wounded and later dies at Beth Israel Hospital. He had bullet wounds and injuries from an explosion, according to officials. April 19, - Boston police identify the bombers as Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, brothers from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
They are of Chechen origin and legally immigrated to the United States. Tamerlan is identified as the person killed in the encounter with police while Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a student at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, remains at large. Throughout the day, hundreds of law enforcement officers go door-to-door on 20 streets in Watertown, looking for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who authorities believe is still in Massachusetts.
Boston-area residents are asked by authorities to stay inside as the hunt continues for Tsarnaev.
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