Developments in Boston Marathon Bombing Case
April 25, 2013
More than 10,000 people, including many uniformed police and military personnel, attended a campus memorial yesterday for Sean A. Collier, a police officer for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology allegedly killed by suspects in the April 15 Boston Marathon bombings. One of the speakers at the service was United States Vice President Joe Biden. Three people died when two bombs exploded within seconds of each other near the finish line of the marathon. At least 260 people were injured, some critically. Also on Wednesday, Copley Square, the site of the attacks, was reopened to residents and business people. Boston officials had closed the square and surrounding area while investigators searched for evidence related to the attack.
Nineteen-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the suspects in the bombings, remains hospitalized as he recuperates from wounds suffered in a shootout with police in the early morning hours of April 19. His brother and fellow suspect, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed in the shootout, which followed a wild police case and Collier’s murder. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured in Watertown later that day. On April 22, he was charged by the U. S. attorney’s office for the district of Massachusetts with conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction against persons and property, resulting in death.
