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Boston Marathon bombings
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Boston Marathon bombings | Aftermath of the first blast | Location | Bombing: Boylston Street, west of Copley Square, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Shooting: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Firefight and manhunt: Watertown, Massachusetts | Date | Bombing: April 15, 2013, 2:49 p.m. EDT
Shooting: April 18, 2013, 10:48 p.m. EDTFirefight and manhunt: April 19, 2013,12:30 a.m. – 8:42 p.m. EDT | Attack type | Bombing,[1] terrorism, shootings | Weapon(s) | * Pressure cooker bombs * Other improvised explosive devices * Guns and stolen SUV | Deaths | 5 total * 3 spectators from bombing on April 15 * 1 police officer from shooting on April 18 * 1 suspect from shooting on April 19 | Injured (non-fatal) | 281 total * 264 people at scene of bombing on April 15[2] * 16 police officers during gunfight on April 19[3] * 1 suspect from shooting on April 19 | Suspected perpetrators | * Tamerlan Tsarnaev (dead) * Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (in custody) | Motive | Extremist Islamic beliefs, including reaction to U.S. wars in Muslim countries[4][5] |
During the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, two pressure cooker bombs exploded at 2:49 p.m. EDT (18:49 UTC), killing 3 people and injuring 264. The bombs exploded about 13 seconds and 210 yards (190 m) apart, near the finish line on Boylston Street. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) took over the investigation, and released photographs and a video of two suspects on April 18. The suspects were identified later that day as brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
Shortly after the FBI released the images, the suspects allegedly killed an MIT police officer, carjacked an SUV, and initiated an exchange of gunfire with the police in Watertown, Massachusetts. During the exchange, an MBTA police officer was critically injured, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was