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about Boston
Marathon bombing
When was Boston Marathon bombing? Boston
Marathon bombing took place on April 15,
2013.
How
many people died in
Boston Marathon bombing? The death toll of
Boston Marathon bombing numbered 3 innocent
civilians, Krystle Campbell, Lu Lingzi and
Martin Richard, and more than 280 people
were injured in the terror attack
Who was arrested for the Boston Marathon
bombing?
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested for the
Boston Marathon bombing and sentenced to
death on April 15, 2013. His brother and
co-conspirator Tamerlan Tsarnaev was shot
dead in the shoot out during the manhunt for
the perpetrators.
Who was responsible for the Boston
Marathon bombing? The Muslim brothers
were radicalized by their beliefs in the
Islamic State (IS).
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Marathon bombing
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Facts - 1: The Boston Marathon has a long
history and dates back to 1897 when the first marathon
was run. It is New England's most widely viewed sporting
event
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2: More than 30,000 athletes are
inspired to run the race each year, many for charity,
along the course of winding roads covering 26 miles, 385
yards conforming to the Olympic standard. The annual
event attracts over 500,000 spectators.
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Marathon bombing
Facts - 3: The 2013 Boston Marathon was greeted with the
usual enthusiasm. It ended in tragedy when the event was subjected
to a terror attack perpetrated by two young men, Tamerlan Tsarnaev
and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who had lived in the United States throughout
their adult lives.
Boston
Marathon bombing
Facts - 4: Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev came to
the U.S. from Kyrgyzstan, a Central Asian state bordering
Uzbekistan, when they were aged 15 and 8, respectively. The family
originated in war-torn Chechnya.
Boston
Marathon bombing
Facts - 5: The Tsarnaev family reached the United States on
tourist visas and applied for asylum. The family settled in
Cambridge, Massachusetts and granted legal permanent residence in
2007.
Boston
Marathon bombing
Facts - 6: The older brother, Tamerlan, attended
Bunker Hill Community College, was a keen boxer and had
hopes of representing the USA in the Olympics. He dated
American girls and appeared settled.
Boston
Marathon bombing
Facts - 7: In 2008 his lifestyle changed. He
became a devout Muslim, attending the Islamic Society of
Boston mosque. Tamerlan Tsarnaev became radicalized and
stated expressing extremist views against the west. In
2011 the FBI received warning information that Tamerlan
Tsarnaev was a follower of radical Islam.
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8: In September 2011 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
enrolled in the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
and was popular among his fellow students, but was
strongly influenced by his older brother.
Boston
Marathon bombing
Facts - 9: From January 2012 until July 2012
Tamerlan was in in Russia, in the predominantly Muslim
provinces of Dagestan and Chechnya. He retuned to the US
and began to loudly express his extreme radical views at
the mosque.
Boston
Marathon bombing
Facts - 10: It later transpired that in 2013
Tamerlan downloaded a publication by Abdullah Azzam
advocating violence to terrorize enemies of Islam and a
publication that glorified martyrdom in the service of
violent jihad.
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Marathon bombing
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11: He then downloaded a copy of the
"Inspire" magazine published by
Al-Qaeda
which included an article, "Make a Bomb in the Kitchen
of Your Mom," with instructions on how to build
improvised explosive device (IEDs) using pressure
cookers or sections of pipe, explosive powder from
fireworks and shrapnel such as nails and ball bearings.
Boston
Marathon bombing
Facts - 12: On April 14, 2013 Tamerlan Tsarnaev ordered
electronic components over the Internet to be used in making the
IEDs which he received by mail.
Boston
Marathon bombing
Facts - 13: The 2013 Boston Marathon gan at 9.00am on
April 15, 2013 and vast crowds began to gather along the route
Boston
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Facts - 14: Tamerlan Tsarnaev was aged 26 and his younger brother, Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev, was aged 19 on the day of the Boston Marathon bombings.
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Facts - 15: At 2:40 p.m. Tamerlan Tsarnaev walked
to the front of Marathon Sports shop on Boylston Street
and placed a backpack containing a pressure cooker bomb
among the crowd gathered near the finish line.
Boston
Marathon bombing
Facts - 16: At about the same time Dzhokhar
walked to the front of the Forum restaurant, about a
block and a half away from Boylston Street, and let a
second backpack and pressure cooker bomb among the
crowd.
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Facts - 17: Tamerlan Tsarnaev detonated the bomb
in front of Marathon Sports at 2.49p.m., killing 29 year
old Krystle Marie Campbell and maiming many others.
Boston
Marathon bombing
Facts - 18: Seconds later Dzhokhar detonates the
second bomb in front of the Forum restaurant, killing 23
year old Lingzi Lu and eight year old Martin Richard,
burning and maiming many others.
Boston
Marathon bombing
Facts - 19: The homemade pressure cooker bombs,
packed with explosives and shrapnel, were triggered
remotely, by a device used in remote control toys,
allowing the bombers to escape. They immediately return
to their day to day routines.
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Marathon bombing
Facts - 20: The manhunt for the bombers began.
Jeff Bauman, who lost both legs in the bombing, bravely
gave the FBI a description of the man who dropped a
backpack near him.
Boston
Marathon bombing
Facts - 21: On April 17, 2013: President Barack
Obama signed an emergency declaration for Massachusetts
and ordered federal aid to supplement local response
units.
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22: On April 18, 2013 investigators
released photos and a video of the two suspects and
requested the public's help in identifying them.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were identified
as the suspects
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23: The manhunt increased in intensity, and Boston was
effectively locked down. The brothers, aware they had
been identified, were looking for more weapons to defend
themselves.
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24: On the same night, MIT police officer
Sean Collier was on duty in his squad car when he was
shot to death, allegedly by Tamerlan and Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev, as they attempted to steal his gun.
Boston
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25: They then stole a Mercedes SUV at
gunpoint from a Cambridge gas station. The driver was
held for about a half-hour, then released unharmed.
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26: In the early hours of 12:15 a.m., on
April 19, 2013, the brothers drive to Laurel Street and
Dexter Avenue in Watertown, where police try to
apprehend them
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27: A gun battle begins and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, weakened by
multiple gunshot wounds, is tackled by three Watertown
police officers, Jeffrey Pugliese, John MacLellan and
John Reynolds.
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28: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, also bleeding from
multiple gunshot wounds, flees to the Mercedes SUV and
steers it directly at the three police officers, but the
car hits his brother.
Boston
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29: Tamerlan was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center and pronounced dead at 1:35 a.m.
Boston Marathon
bombing Facts - 30:
Dzhokhar abandons
the Mercedes on Spruce Street in Watertown and hides in
a dry-docked boat called 'The Slipaway II', in a
backyard in Watertown.
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31: At 8:30 p.m. the police corner Dzhokhar in the boat.
They order him to come out with his hands up and he gave
himself up. He is taken to hospital and later questioned
by the police.
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32: On May 9, 2013 the body of Tamerlan
Tsarnaev is secretly buried in Virginia after a weeklong
search for a cemetery willing to take the body.
Boston
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33: On April 8, 2015 Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev was found guilty of carrying out the
2013 Boston marathon bombing and receives the death
sentence.
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34: Whilst the death penalty is not
permitted under state law in Massachusetts, it was an
option in the Tsarnaev case because he was convicted of
federal crimes.
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35: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is incarcerated in
Supermax, the country's most strict and secure prison,
in Florence, Colorado, pending appeal.
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