THIS DAY IN HISTORY – Three people killed, hundreds injured in Boston Marathon bombing – 2013

Via History.com

On this day in 2013, two bombs go off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three spectators and wounding more than 260 other people in attendance. Four days later, after an intense manhunt that shut down the Boston area, police captured one of the bombing suspects, 19-year-old Dzhohkar Tsarnaev; his older brother and fellow suspect, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, died following a shootout with law enforcement earlier that same day.

The 117th Boston Marathon began in the morning from Hopkinton, Massachusetts, with some 23,000 participants. At around 2:49 that afternoon, with more than 5,700 runners still in the race, two pressure cooker bombs hidden in backpacks exploded within seconds of each other near the finish line along Boylston Street. Three people died: a 23-year-old woman, a 29-year-old woman and an 8-year-old boy. Among the scores of others who were injured, more than a dozen people required amputations.

On the evening of April 18, the FBI released photos of two male suspects sought in connection with the bombings. That night at around 10:30, Sean Collier, a 26-year-old police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was shot dead in his patrol car on the school’s Cambridge campus. Authorities would eventually link the murder to the Tsarnaev brothers, who spent parts of their childhoods in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan but had lived in the United States for about a decade prior to the bombings. Soon after Officer Collier was killed, Tamerlan Tsarnaev carjacked an SUV, taking the driver hostage and telling him he was one of the Boston Marathon bombers. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev followed behind in a smaller car before joining his older brother and the hostage in the SUV. The brothers drove around the Boston area with their hostage, forcing him to withdraw money from an ATM and discussing driving to New York City. When they stopped at a Cambridge gas station, the hostage escaped and called police, informing them the SUV could be tracked by his cellphone, which was still in the vehicle. Shortly after midnight, a gun battle broke out between the Tsarnaevs and police on a street in the Boston suburb of Watertown. One officer was seriously injured by gunfire but survived. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, also seriously wounded, was taken to a hospital, where doctors tried unsuccessfully to resuscitate him. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev managed to drive away from the shootout in the stolen SUV before abandoning it nearby and fleeing on foot.

That day, April 19, the Boston area was on lockdown, with schools closed, public transportation service suspended and people advised to stay inside their homes, as police conducted door-to-door searches in Watertown and military-style vehicles patrolled the streets. That evening, after police called off their search of the area, a Watertown man went outside to check on a boat he was storing in his backyard. When he looked inside the 24-foot vessel, he was startled to see blood and a person, who turned out to be Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, hiding there. Police soon arrived and took the suspect, who was wounded from the earlier gun battle, into custody.

At the time of the bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a sophomore at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, while Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a community college dropout and former amateur boxer with a wife and child. Investigators believe the Tsarnaevs were motivated by extremist Islamic beliefs but planned and carried out the bombings on their own and were not connected to any terrorist organizations. The brothers allegedly used the Internet to learn how to build explosives.

In July 2013, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to the 30 federal charges against him, including the use of a weapon of mass destruction. He went on trial in January 2015, and was found guilty on all 30 counts. He was sentenced to death but appealed the decision. Tsarnaev is currently being held at a supermax prison in Colorado.

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Iwasntbornwithenufmiddlefingers
Iwasntbornwithenufmiddlefingers
April 15, 2019 7:15 am

Prolly another false flag faked event. Look at the pictures and consult the illuminati card game. Again.

That peter jackson illuminati cardgame is really something. Dovetails to all the world is a videogame quite nicely.

Steve
Steve
April 15, 2019 7:16 am

My favorite story in the HOAX was the cowboy pushing the known long term leg amputee who had his legs “nearly blown off”. The cowboy is pushing the guy in a wheelchair and one of the prosthetic leg bones falls off. Hilarious! If they were real injuries he would have been unconscious (he wasn’t) and he would have bled out within minutes. Such lies and deceit from our rulers.

Annie
Annie
  Steve
April 15, 2019 2:57 pm

False flag, yes. But just because it was a false flag doesn’t mean that nobody was hurt or died. Hoax??? Unless Jeff Bauman volunteered to have his legs cut off, not so much. There is data on Jeff’s life prior to the incident and he obviously had legs. There is lots and lots of data on Jeff in the 6 years after the incident (he’s written a book, got married, wife had a baby, does public appearances, etc., etc.) and he obviously does not have legs. Same person had legs before the incident does not have legs after the incident. How did he survive? How did he manage to stay conscious? I have no clue because he shouldn’t have.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
April 15, 2019 10:03 am

My takeaway: Even when the Russians give us a specific warning about these jokers (or Dzhokhars), our imbecilic “intelligence agencies” can’t interdict them. And what thanks did the Russians get? They got tarred with the bogus Trump-Russia stuff. I think I know what Russia learned: never try to help the Americans.

NtroP
NtroP
April 15, 2019 11:00 am

There have been so many lies and deceptions that I honestly don’t really know what the fuck happened that day. It was probably mostly fake, a false-flag. The cops going door-to-door with illegal searches was fuckin’ scary; I hope I never see that shit in my neighborhood.

Dave
Dave
April 15, 2019 11:22 am

It was a fake bombing through and through. When will these Hollywood wannabe producers realize that blood on the ground or spattered around after such an event is not bright red but rusty brown. The explosions were really cheesy too.

Annie
Annie
  Dave
April 15, 2019 2:46 pm

I’ve butchered lots of chickens. The blood that drains out and pools is red or a dark red/purple color depending on how long it’s been sitting there. Most of the blood that spatters is bright red and stays bright red. No rusty brown in sight. So unless you have personal data on human mass casualties as opposed to my personal data on chicken mass casualties you don’t have jack shit.

John
John
April 15, 2019 9:31 pm

A detailed frame-by-frame photo analysis of this event by the late Dave McGowan is available here:

Boston Marathon Bombing

The photos start about halfway down the first page of the report.

Annie
Annie
  John
April 15, 2019 9:53 pm

LOL An “analysis” of a few of the pictures (and none of the ones that the cops kept out of circulation until after the trial) by some kid working out of his parent’s basement. No corroborating evidence for his wild theories. Sorry he died, but the fact that he died doesn’t lend any credibility.