The moment police found the Boston 'bomber': Extraordinary
thermal-imaging photos reveal wounded suspect hiding in a
boat
Dramatic photographs reveal how breakthrough technology helped
police home in on the second marathon bombing suspect 19-year-old
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
The pictures reveal how state-of-the-art thermal imaging cameras
helped police track the Chechen terror suspect while he hid on
David Henneberry's boat for his final stand off in Watertown
following a terrifying week of violence.
Henneberry called 911 after spotting blood and what he thought was
a crumpled body in his boat, which was sitting in the backyard of
his home.
Authorities then used a helicopter equipped with a thermal imaging
device to confirm that there was a body in the tarp covered boat
and that the person was alive.
In hiding: Dzhokhar was discovered by Massachusetts resident David
Henneberry hiding in his boat. Police used thermal imaging to
monitor his movements
Tracked: This is how officers monitored Dzhokhar in the boat as he
lay there unaware he was moments from capture
Revealed: How heat sensors found the Boston terror suspect - the
cameras showed how the man moved around the boat
Hovering over the area, the helicopter spotted the heat signature
of a person, confirming Henneberry's suspicions.
'Our helicopter had actually detected the subject in the boat,'
Col. Timothy Alben of the Massachusetts State Police told NBC News.
'We have what's called a FLIR — a forward-looking infrared device —
on that helicopter.
The chopper monitored the body in the boat for more than an hour
before police moved in and took the bleeding Dzhokhar Tsarnaev into
custody.
He remained in hospital today and was described as clinging to life
as Gov. Deval Patrick said: 'I hope he survives, because we have a
million questions.'
The secret service's top interrogators are now waiting to quiz him
as he is treated in the same hospital where 11 victims are still
recovering.
Thermal imagers are able to detect a body or other heat source
inside a house, a vehicle, or in this case, a boat, because heat,
unlike visible-light wavelengths can pass through walls.
Police regularly use them to find out whether marijuana is being
grown inside a house with heat lamps.
A nightmarish 24 hours came to an end in Boston at around 8:45pm
yesterday as the 19-year-old suspect was taken into custody alive
but injured after a gun battle with police and federal agents.
It signaled the end of five days of terror set-off by the double
bombing at the marathon finish line.
The mayor of Boston, Thomas Menino, was quoted by the Boston Globe
as taking to the police scanner to exclaim, 'We got him'.
'I have never loved this city and its people more than I do today.
Nothing can defeat the heart of this city .. nothing.'
Relieved law enforcement officers began cheering and clapping after
he was arrested and thousands of jubilant members of the public
took to the streets to salute their hard work.
Dzhokhar's older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, lay dead following
a furious fire-fight alongside his younger brother with police on
Thursday which left one officer dead.
Hi-tech: Boston police deployed all the technology they have to
track down Dzhokhar
Busted: The robotic arm pulls back the boat cover to reveal the
hiding terror suspect
Assisted: This striking picture shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lying on
the ground of the property of 67 Franklin Street in Watertown after
authorities apprehended him. He had to have medical assistance to
breathe
Security: Law enforcement officials stand guard outside the West
Clinical Center, pictured, where Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev is being treated
Wounded: This still frame from video shows Boston Marathon bombing
suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev visible through an ambulance after he was
captured in Watertown on Friday
This image obtained April 19, 2013 courtesy CBS News shows Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev, a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing who was captured
Friday night, April 19, 2013 after he was found hiding in a boat in
a Boston suburb
Aerial views of 67 Franklin Street, Watertown, Massachusetts.
Boston bombing suspect #2 Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, led the
authorities to 67 Franklin Street in Watertown, Massachusetts where
he was taken into custody
A light beam from a helicopter, top right, aims in the direction of
Watertown, where officials searched for a suspect in the Boston
Marathon explosions all Friday
Henneberry became the day's unusual hero when he decided to check
on his beloved boat moments after police lifted a Boston-wide
lock-down believing they wouldn't find the younger suspect.
On spotting him inside Henneberry 'freaked out' and ran inside to
call police - who dispatched the helicopter
'He looked and noticed something was off about his boat, so he got
his ladder, and he put his ladder up on the side of the boat and
climbed up, and then he saw blood on it, and he thought he saw what
was a body laying in the boat,' Henneberry's neighbor, George
Pizzuto told ABC News.
'So he got out of the boat fast and called police.'
'That boat's his baby. He takes care of it like you wouldn't
believe. And they told him it's all shot up,' Pizzuto said. He's
going to be heartbroken.'
Within minutes police, ATF, SWAT and K-9 units had descended upon
67 Franklin Street and engaged Tsarnaev in a vicious gun battle -
over 40 shots rang out in the quiet suburban neighborhood.
'There was an exchange of gunfire,' confirmed Boston Police
Commissioner Ed Davis at a news conference.
Authorities, using a bullhorn, had called on the suspect to
surrender: 'Come out with your hands up.'
'We used a robot to pull the tarp off the boat,' David Procopio of
the Massachusetts State Police said to CNN. 'We were also watching
him with a thermal imaging camera in our helicopter. He was
weakened by blood loss -- injured last night most likely.'
Applause: A police officer breaks into a smile as the crowd applaud
him on the news of the arrest of one of the Boston Marathon bombing
suspects, Friday, April 19, 2013, in Boston
Celebration: Crowd gathered to celebrate in the Boston Common after
both marathon bombing suspects were found
Unconfirmed reports suggest that Tsarnaev was shot twice by law
enforcement in the gun battle which raged until his capture at
approximately 8.45pm.
Law enforcement sources have suggested that Tsarnaev gave himself
up voluntarily after realizing continuing resistance was
fruitless.
President Barack Obama praised the outcome after a 'tough week' but
said the focus would now be on getting answers for the victims.
He said: 'Why did young men who grew up and studied here as part of
our communities and our country resort to such violence?'
'We've closed an important chapter in this tragedy,' added Mr.
Obama said in his televised address.
Federal law enforcement officials are invoking the public safety
exception to the Miranda rights.
That means that Tsarnaev will be questioned immediately without
having his rights read to him.
Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham have called for
Tsarnaev to be held as an enemy combatant, although the chances of
that being permitted are slim.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick speaks during a news
conference announcing the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the second
suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing
State Police Col. Timothy Alben, accompanied by Massachusetts
Governor Deval Patrick, speaks during a news conference as U.S.
Attorney Carmen Ortiz, (right) addresses the crowd
Cheering for Heroes: Two women applaud after the arrest of a
suspect of the Boston Marathon bombings in Watertown on Friday
evening
'We Got Him': Watertown residents along Arsenal Street cheer for
police officers after the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev four days
after the dual bombings at the Boston Marathon in Watertown,
Massachusetts
President Obama said it was important justice was 'done right'.
'In this day of instant reporting, tweets, and blogs, there is a
temptation to latch onto any bit of information, sometimes to jump
to conclusions, but when a tragedy like this happens, with the
public safety at risk and the stakes so high, it important to do
this right,' Obama said.
'That's why have an investigation, that's why we relentlessly
gather the facts, that's why we have courts.'
'Whatever hateful agenda drove these men cannot, will not prevail,'
he said, 'and whatever they thought they could achieve failed
because the people of Boston refuse to be intimidated, and we as
Americans refuse to be terrorized.'
The two suspects were ethnic Chechens from southern Russia who had
been in the U.S. for about a decade and lived in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Investigators still have given no details on the
motive for the bombing.
Early on Friday morning, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed
in a ferocious gun battle and car chase during which he and his
younger brother hurled explosives at police from a stolen car,
authorities said. The younger brother managed to escape.
During the getaway attempt, the brothers killed Sean Collier, an
MIT policeman, and severely wounded another officer, authorities
said.
Chechnya has been the scene of two wars between Russian forces and
separatists since 1994, in which tens of thousands were killed in
heavy Russian bombing. That spawned an Islamic insurgency that has
carried out deadly bombings in Russia and the region, although not
in the West.
The older brother had strong political views about the United
States, said Albrecht Ammon, 18, a downstairs-apartment neighbor in
Cambridge. Ammon quoted Tsarnaev as saying that the U.S. uses the
Bible as 'an excuse for invading other countries.'
It has emerged the FBI interviewed the older brother at the request
of Russia in 2011 but dropped their surveillance after finding
nothing they thought was worth following up.
After a tense all-day manhunt for Dzhokhar and house-to-house
search by thousands of SWAT team officers with rifles and armored
vehicles, Dzhokhar was cornered in a homeowner's yard.
Members of the public cheer as police officers leave the scene
where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the Boston
Marathon bombings, was taken into custody in Watertown,
Massachusetts on Friday
Thank You: Members of the public cheer as police officers leave the
scene where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the Boston
Marathon bombings, was taken into custody
Two unidentified young men drive with an American Flag through
Watertown, Massachusetts, USA, 19 April 2013, after Law Enforcement
Officials apprehended Boston Marathon Bombing suspect, Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev
Hundreds of Northeastern University students gather in Hemenway
Street to celebrate the capture of suspected Boston Marathon bomber
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Boston on April 19th
High Five Flying Flag: A policeman (left) celebrates with a woman
after one of the Boston bombers was apprehended on Friday while
Frank McGillin, who has ran three Boston Marathons, waves a U.S.
flag
Police officers high-fived each other and shook hands at the
conclusion of the fire-fight ended with him arrested.
One police officer, a look of relief on his face, said: 'Yep, we
got him.'
Chants of 'USA! USA!' broke out. In Boston, people danced in the
streets outside Fenway Park.
Another officer was hugged by a woman standing at a barricade set
up at a road several blocks from Franklin Street. As word quickly
spread crowds cheered and clapped.
Dozens of police walked back from Franklin Street with their
weapons lowered or holstered. Several chatted on cell phones as
they presumably called loved ones to tell them the hunt was over
and they were safe.
'Thank you. Thank you. It was our pleasure,' members of the Boston
SWAT team said over a loudspeaker to the relieved crowds who
gathered to thank them.
An estimated 1,000 law enforcement officers had been involved in
the massive police manhunt.
Just prior to this, police fueled the paranoid atmosphere when they
said three other people were taken into custody for questioning at
an off-campus housing complex at the University of the
Massachusetts at Dartmouth where the younger man may have
lived.
Authorities are still holding the three people in custody in New
Bedford, Massachusetts, 65 miles south of the city, the Boston
Globe reports.
It is unknown how they were connected to the case.
At least seven IEDs were found, some in Watertown and some at a
home in Cambridge, which police made safe.
Fist Pump: A SWAT officer raises his fist in Watertown, Mass.
Friday, April 19, 2013, after the manhunt for the second of two
suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing was captured
'We Got Him!': Twenty four hours of chaos comes to an end: How
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was apprehended by police after day-long
search
April 18 5.30pm - The FBI releases CCTV footage and stills of two
suspects from surveillance cameras near the explosion sites filmed
shortly before the blasts. FBI agent Richard DesLauriers asks for
the public's help in identifying the men who are both wearing
baseball caps and carrying backpacks. 'We consider them to be armed
and extremely dangerous,' Mr DesLauriers said, warning that they
should not be approached.
10.30pm - A campus police officer is shot and killed at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, near
Boston, after responding to a report of a disturbance.
Shortly afterwards, police get a report of a carjacking nearby. The
two men are suspected of killing the MIT police officer, then
stealing the car at gunpoint and later releasing its driver
unharmed. The suspects threw explosives from the car as police
followed it to the Boston suburb of Watertown.
April 19 1am - Witnesses report hearing multiple gunshots and
explosions in Watertown. Residents are advised to keep their doors
locked and not let anyone in. TV footage shows armed officers
surrounding a suspect lying on the ground.
Police later say one of the two suspects in the MIT officer
shooting is dead but the other, who is tied to the Boston marathon
bombing, remains at large.
Public transport is suspended in the Boston area as the hunt for
the remaining suspect continues.
A new photo of him on the loose is released showing him in a grey
hoodie sweatshirt at a 7-Eleven store in Cambridge.
5pm - Police admit at a press conference they don't know where
19-year-old Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev is. Authorities lift 'shelter in
place' orders and allow residents to venture outside.
5.45pm - David Henneberry finds a body in his boat on Franklin
Street in Watertown, less than three quarters of a mile from where
Tsarnaev ditched his stolen Mercedes SUV.
6pm - Officers surround Mr Hennerberry's boat and exchange fire
with him.
7.05pm - Flash grenades are reportedly tossed into the boat to stun
Tsarnaev.
8.43pm - Tsarnaev surrenders and it taken into custody. He is
rushed to the hospital by ambulance
Endgame: An ambulance carries Boston Marathon bombing suspect
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev from the scene after he was apprehended in
Watertown, Massachusetts, USA on Friday (left) as Police SWAT teams
leave the area (right)
Drama: Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is believed to have
been taken in this ambulance and taken to Mt. Auburn hospital in
the city to be treated for his wounds
This map shows the location of incidents surrounding the manhunt
for the two Boston Marathon bombings suspects and includes an
updated timeline of events and information on the Tsarnaev
brothers
Terrorists: Tamerlan Tsarnaev (right) was killed during an exchange
of gunfire with police on Wednesday night. His younger brother
Dzhokhar (left) is still on the run and reportedly has explosives
strapped to his body
It emerged earlier in the day that Dzhokhar had several active
online profiles and even posted messages warning people to 'stay
safe' after the bombings - an apparent attempt to cover his
tracks.
The 19-year-old, who attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School and
was a registered student at University of Massachusetts -
Dartmouth, was also a 9/11 denier and posted a chilling message on
Twitter eight months ago where he wrote: ‘Boston marathon isn’t a
good place to smoke'.
The tweet last August appeared on the micro-blogging site from user
@J_Tsar - named in multiple reports as an alias for the man behind
Monday’s atrocity. He also tweeted about his intent to grow a beard
and how he ‘wanted out’ of American life.
The messages suggested the level of forethought and planning that
the Chechen immigrants allegedly put into the devastating attack on
Boston.
The tweets added to a picture of Dzhokhar which was emerging on
Friday, as a young man who had hidden his sinister intentions
beneath the facade of a party-loving but dedicated student who was
captain of his high school wrestling team.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, emerged as the FBI's 'Suspect 2' on Thursday
after he was seen on CCTV wearing a white baseball cap and dropping
a backpack shortly before the huge blasts.
The older brother Tamerlan attended Bunker Hill Community College
and was studying to become an engineer but took a year off to
pursue boxing.
On the move: Several different agencies including the Boston
police, FBI and SWAT teams were working together
Constant danger: Scores of police and SWAT team members were
surrounding the Boston suburb on Friday morning
He said in an interview with a Boston University student magazine
in 2010: 'I don't have a single American friend. I don't understand
them.'
The 26-year-old had a profile on YouTube channel since August 2012.
Five months ago, Tamerlan created a playlist dedicated to
terrorism.
Named simply ‘Terrorists,’ the playlist included a pair of videos,
which are now no longer available. Although most of the clips in
the channel are ordinary music videos, Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s YouTube
channel shows signs that he had been drawn to radical Islamism.
Among the songs on his playlists was one called ‘I will dedicate my
life to Jihad.' He also featured videos recorded by recent converts
to Islam.
Many members of the family denounced the two men and the suspects'
uncle Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Maryland, pleaded on
television for Dzhokhar to give up.
'Dzhokhar, if you are alive, turn yourself in and ask for
forgiveness,' he said.
The 19-year-old's father on Saturday pleaded for him to tell police
'everything'. 'Just be honest,' he said.
Video of SWAT raid on Watertown house
Student: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (left) graduated from his Cambridge high
school and was in college studying medicine. He is on the run after
his brother Tamerlan (right) was killed after they were named
terror suspects
High alert: State police arrest an unidentified man walking at the
University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth campus during their sweep
of the university on Friday
Stay indoors: A resident views police in tactical gear conduct a
search for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings
"Shelter in place": Boston residents asked to stay indoors
Heroes: MIT campus police officer Sean Collier, 26,
(left) was shot dead by the fleeing terror suspects. Officer
Richard Donohue, 33, (right) was injured in the exchange of gunfire
but is now in a stable condition in hospital
Boston bombing suspects, Tsarnaev brothers, caught on video
This combination of Associated Press file images released by the
FBI on Thursday show two images taken from surveillance video of
what the FBI are calling suspect number 1, (left), in black cap,and
suspect number 2, (right), in a white cap
Map showing the Boston crime scene perimeter where experts are
trying to piece together the clues left behind the deadly marathon
explosion