The 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, Dzhokar
Tsarnaev, was
captured last night hiding in a boat, was in a hospital with serious
wounds as the FBI prepared to question him about what might have
inspired and enabled the attack.
Dzhokar Tsarnaev was being treated at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston
for gunshot wounds suffered as he battled police, authorities said. His
brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, the other suspect, was killed as they
both tried to escape the dragnet early yesterday.
Agents who brought him in were concerned about the amount of blood
lost by Dzhokar Tsarnaev before he was taken into custody after an
almost 24-hour manhunt that shut down Boston and surrounding cities, a
federal law enforcement official said. As of early morning, he had not
been questioned because of his medical condition, the official said.
Bonnie
Prescott, a Beth Israel spokeswoman, declined to describe the suspect’s
condition, saying the FBI had asked the hospital to withhold the
information. Boston police and hospital security guards lined the main
entrance.
The brothers, immigrants of Chechen descent, are
accused of an attack that transformed America’s most storied road-race
into a tableau of mayhem and confusion, planting two bombs that exploded
about 10 seconds apart near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on
April 15.
Initial Escape
Dzhokar Tsarnaev escaped after the overnight gun battle with police in the Boston suburb of Watertown the night before in which 200 rounds of ammunition were fired and the suspects hurled explosive devices at police, according to Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick.
During confrontations with the brothers that erupted after 10:30 p.m. on April 18, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology
campus police officer was killed and a transit police officer seriously
wounded, authorities said. In the first showdown with police in
Watertown, the younger Tsarnaev ran over his older sibling, according to
one official.
The dead brother had explosives strapped to his
body when killed, according to two federal law enforcement officials.
That increased concerns about the type of weaponry the younger Tsarnaev
might be carrying, one official said.
George Pizzuto told
Bloomberg Television that about 6 p.m. yesterday, his neighbor on
Franklin Street noticed something amiss with his covered boat. As the
neighbor started to open the cover, he noticed blood and thought he saw a
body lying on the deck, Pizzuto said, and he called police immediately.
HBC: May God Help Us All.
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