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. Between 6 and 7 p. Law enforcement agents later take Tsarnaev into custody. He is hospitalized in serious condition. April 22, - Tsarnaev is charged with one count of using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death and one count of malicious destruction of property by means of an explosive device resulting in death.
May 1, - Three year-olds are arrested in connection with the bombings. The three men are accused of helping Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after the bombing. Federal prosecutors say Azamat Tazhayakov, Dias Kadyrbayev, and Robel Phillipos took items from Tsarnaev's dorm room after the bombing to throw investigators off their friend's trail.
Tazhayakov and Kadyrbayev are foreign nationals charged with obstruction of justice. They are initially held on unrelated visa issues. Phillipos, an American citizen, is charged with lying to federal agents. Justice Elena Kagan noted to Deputy Solicitor General Eric Feigin that the jury was allowed to hear evidence about Tamerlan "poking somebody in the chest" and shouting at people "all because that showed what kind of person Tamerlan was and what kind of influence he might have had over his [younger] brother.
The federal government has argued to the Supreme Court that the appellate judgment was wrong, and that the U. Lawyers for Tsarnaev have responded that even if the high court vacated the appellate ruling and sent the case back for further review, issues with the jury and the evidence presented during Tsarnaev's trial would lead to the same outcome.
The federal government is pushing for the death penalty for Tsarnaev even as President Joe Biden's Justice Department takes action to halt federal executions. Former President Donald Trump's administration, which asked the Supreme Court to review the appeals court's ruling on Tsarnaev, carried out 13 such executions during Trump's final months in office.
Feigin responded that the government "continues to believe the jury imposed a sound verdict. The U. Three people, including an 8-year-old child, were killed and hundreds were wounded when two pressure-cooker bombs filled with metal shrapnel detonated near the crowded marathon finish line.
Tsarnaev was convicted and sentenced to death, but the sentence was overturned in July by a federal appeals court. The Justice Department under Donald Trump appealed against the decision. Tsarnaev and his elder brother Tamerlan, both Kyrgyz-American nationals of Chechen descent, planted bombs close to the finish line of the Boston Marathon on 15 April Tamerlan was killed in a shootout with police three days later. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev fled and was captured a day later, after being found hiding in a boat in the backyard of a house in Watertown, a suburb of Boston.
A jury sentenced Tsarnaev to death by lethal injection in , but this was overturned last year by an appeals court. A woman kneels and prays at the scene of the first explosion on Boylston Street near the finish line of the th Boston Marathon on April 15, This was the scene on Federal Street in the Financial District at around p. One of the blast sites on Boylston Street near the finish line of the Boston Marathon is investigated by two people in protective suits in the wake of two blasts in Boston on April 15, SWAT teams moved into position in Watertown in Boston, April 19, , while searching for one of the two marathon bombing suspects.
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