Two Chechen brothers behind Boston attack, 1 dead in police firing
20 April 2013 7:28 AM IST
With speculations about the missing 22-year-old Indian-American student Sunil Tripathi being one of the two Boston bomb suspects now put aside, police have zeroed in on the real culprits. The twin suspects in the fatal Boston marathon bombings, of whom one was killed in a shootout with police early Friday morning (local time), have been identified by law enforcement officials as brothers of Chechen origin, who have been living in US under legal permanent residency for a few years now.
The two men – who were dubbed ‘Suspect One’ and ‘Suspect Two’ by the FBI – led police special forces on a violent cavalcade that left inhabitants of towns around Boston cowering in their homes as gunfire and explosions erupted through the night.
The absconding suspect has been named as 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, while the one killed in overnight police firing was his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26. Authorities were investigating whether the dead suspect had a homemade bomb strapped to his body when he was killed, according to sources in law enforcement.
The violence began late Thursday with the robbery of a 7/11 convenience store, according to US media reports. Soon after, in Cambridge, across the Charles River from Boston, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police officer was fatally shot while he sat in his car.
Police believe the bombing suspects were responsible for the shooting the police official well, who died. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev also posted links to Islamic websites and others calling for Chechen independence on a Russian language social networking website, VK. Hate speech condemning in Russian and English Tsarnaev were also discovered on Tsarnaev’s page on VK, after his name was circulated as a suspect.
The two men – who were dubbed ‘Suspect One’ and ‘Suspect Two’ by the FBI – led police special forces on a violent cavalcade that left inhabitants of towns around Boston cowering in their homes as gunfire and explosions erupted through the night.
The absconding suspect has been named as 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, while the one killed in overnight police firing was his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26. Authorities were investigating whether the dead suspect had a homemade bomb strapped to his body when he was killed, according to sources in law enforcement.
The violence began late Thursday with the robbery of a 7/11 convenience store, according to US media reports. Soon after, in Cambridge, across the Charles River from Boston, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police officer was fatally shot while he sat in his car.
Police believe the bombing suspects were responsible for the shooting the police official well, who died. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev also posted links to Islamic websites and others calling for Chechen independence on a Russian language social networking website, VK. Hate speech condemning in Russian and English Tsarnaev were also discovered on Tsarnaev’s page on VK, after his name was circulated as a suspect.
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