RSS Feed
April 20th, 2013 
Peter Nolan
Massachusetts State Police Colonel Timothy Alben said: “We are so
grateful to be here right now. We’re so grateful to bring justice and
closure to this case.
To those families that lost loved ones … or who suffered injuries to live
with the rest of their lives. And a police officer who was starting a career
at MIT, and a police officer with the MBTA who almost lost his life and with
neighbourhoods who lived in fear for an entire day, we are eternally
grateful for the outcome tonight, we have a suspect in custody.
“I want to thank all of the partners who worked tirelessly over the last
four days including the FBI, the transit police, our brothers with the
Boston Police Department, the US Attorneys office and the support we have
got over the last four days, we’re exhausted folks, but we have a victory
tonight. But let’s not forget those people along the way.”
The
news was met with jubilation across the Boston area. US President Barack
Obama declared on Friday night that the capture of a second suspect
in the Boston Marathon bombings “closed
an important chapter in this tragedy”.
During a long night of violence Thursday into Friday, the brothers killed an
MIT police officer, severely wounded another lawman and hurled explosives at
police in a car chase and gun battle, authorities said.
The suspects were identified by law enforcement officials and family members
as Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, ethnic Chechen brothers who had lived in
Dagestan, which neighbours Chechnya in southern Russia.
They had been in the US for about a decade, an uncle said, and were believed
to be living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Source: AP
Views: 0
Posted in 
