American police are simply the bomb, Naija police should learn from this. After a massive manhunt for the second Boston Bombing Suspect, I can tell you that he has been captured by police.
Now, CNN reports how Dzhokhar 19 was found wounded on a boat early this morning. Read the full report below:
Police have cornered a man believed to be the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings on a boat in a yard in a suburb of the Massachusetts capital, law enforcement officials told CNN.Authorities "engaged" the man, according to one of the officials who spoke on condition of anonymity, just minutes after authorities indicated a massive manhunt for a suspect in Watertown appeared to come up empty.
A CNN crew near the scene heard about two dozen gunshots fired, but it was not clear if the shots were fired by the suspect, authorities or both. A number of small explosions, believed to be stun grenades, also were heard.
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The development came after authorities cast a wide net for the suspect
that virtually shut down the Massachusetts capital amid warnings the man
was possibly armed with explosives.
Authorities say Dzhokar Tsarnaev escaped an overnight shootout with
police in suburban Watertown that left his older brother Tamerlan
Tsarnaev -- the other man wanted in the bombings -- dead.
More than 18 hours after the search focused on the younger brother,
police officers in full body armor, carrying automatic weapons wrapped
up their door-to-door search of the area, Col. Timothy Alben of the
Massachusetts State Police said.
"Unfortunately, we don't have a positive result at this point," Alben said at the time.
"We think he's still in Massachusetts."
Gov. Deval Patrick, meanwhile, lifted an order that confined an
estimated one million residents to their homes, urging people to "remain
vigilant."
Bombing connection
The violence and subsequent manhunt began late Thursday just hours after
the FBI released photos of the two suspects in the marathon bombings.
"Investigators are recovering a significant amount of homemade
explosives" from the scene of the shootout, Massachusetts State Police
spokesman David Procopio told CNN.
It was not immediately clear what explosives were recovered, but the
discovery followed a tense night in which authorities say the brothers
allegedly hurled explosives at pursuers after killing Massachusetts
Institute of Technology police Officer Sean Collier officer and
hijacking a car.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev was wearing explosives and a triggering device when he
died, a source briefed on the investigation told CNN on condition of
anonymity.
With more than 200 rounds of ammunition and a number of explosives
thrown during the chase and gunbattle, Patrick said the lockdown was
necessary.
The manhunt brought Boston and its surrounds to a near standstill.
The city's subway, bus, Amtrak train and Greyhound and regional Bolt Bus
services were shut down. Taxi service across the city also was
suspended for a time during the manhunt. Every Boston area school was
closed.
Boston's public transit authority sent city buses to Watertown to
evacuate residents while bomb experts combed the surroundings for
possible explosives.
Officer killed
In Cambridge, across the Charles River from Boston, MIT officer Collier
was shot and killed while he sat in his car, the Suffolk County District
Attorney's Office said in a statement.
The two suspects, according to authorities, then hijacked a vehicle at
gunpoint in Cambridge, telling the driver that they were the marathon
bombers, a law enforcement source told CNN on condition of anonymity.
At some point, apparently at a gas station, that source said, the driver escaped.
Police, who were tracking the vehicle using its built-in GPS system,
picked up the chase in Watertown. The pursuit went into a residential
neighborhood, with the suspects throwing explosives at police.
A shootout erupted and ultimately one bomber -- later identified as
Tamerlan Tsarnaev -- got out of the car. Police shot him, and his
brother ran over him as he drove away, according to the source, who
spoke on condition of anonymity.
Richard H. Donohue Jr., 33, a three-year veteran of the transit system
police force, was shot and wounded in the incident and taken to a
hospital, a transit police spokesman said Friday. The officer's
condition was not immediately known.
Another 15 police officers were treated for minor injuries sustained
during the explosions and shootout, Jennifer Kovalich, a spokeswoman for
St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, said.
Suspects background
Police believe the brothers are the same men pictured in images released
Thursday by the FBI as suspects in the marathon bombing that killed
three people and wounded dozens on Monday.
The men are shown in the images walking together near the marathon finish line.
The first suspect -- apparently Tamerlan Tsarnaev, according to
authorities -- appears in the images wearing a dark hat, sunglasses and a
backpack. The second suspect, wearing a white cap, is the one who
remains at large, police said.
But the mother of the Tsarnaev brothers refused to believe they were involved in the marathon bombings and subsequent shootout.
"It's impossible for them to do such things. I am really telling you
that this is a setup," Zubeidat Tsarnaeva told state-run Russia Today
from Dagestan.
"My son would never keep it in secret. ...If there is anyone who would
know it would be me. He wouldn't hide it. But there was never a word."
The brothers came from the Russian Caucasus region and moved to
Kazakhstan at a young age before coming to the United States several
years ago.
"My youngest was raised from 8 years in America. My oldest was really
properly raised in our house. Nobody talked about terrorism," their
mother said.
The suspects' parents recently returned to Dagestan in the Caucasus
region after living in the United States for about 10 years because they
were "nostalgic," the father, Anzor Tsarnaev, told Russian state-run
Zvezda TV.
He accused someone of framing his sons. "I don't know who exactly did it. But someone did."
A federal official told CNN that Dzhokar Tsarnaev came to the U.S. as a
tourist with his family in the early 2000s and later asked for asylum.
He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2012. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was not a
naturalized citizen, said the official, who spoke on condition of
anonymity. He came "a few years later" and was lawfully in the United
States as a green-card holder.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev had studied at Bunker Hill Community College and
wanted to become an engineer, according to those who knew him. He then
took a year off to train as a boxer.
'I don't understand them'
An official said that a posting on a social media site in the elder
brother's name included the comments: "I don't have a single American
friend. I don't understand them."
Dzhokar Tsarnaev attended Cambridge Rindge & Latin, a public high
school, said Eric Mercado, who graduated a year behind the suspect.
Mercado said Tsarnaev had worked at Harvard University as a lifeguard.
"We hung out; we partied; we were good high school friends," Mercado told CNN.
"We're all, like, in shock. We don't really understand. There were no
telltale signs of any kind of malicious behavior from Dzhokar. It's all
coming as a shock, really."
Mercado said he lived a block away from the suspect and did not know his older brother.
Dzhokar Tsarnaev is currently registered as a student at University of
Massachusetts Dartmouth, which ordered its campus evacuated on Friday.
The school is located 65 miles south of Cambridge, just west of New
Bedford.
Larry Aaronson, Dzhokar Tsarnaev's neighbor and a former teacher at the
high school Tsarnaev attended, called him a "wonderful kid."
"He was so grateful to be here, he was compassionate, he was caring, he was jovial," Aaronson told CNN.
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