BOSTON — Just five hours after the bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon last week, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was back at his computer, doing what he did almost every day, posting a message on Twitter.
"Ain't no love in the heart of the city, stay safe people," he wrote.
His brother, Tamerlan, 26, returned to his home in Cambridge, which he shared with his wife and their 3-year-old daughter, and went about his normal activities, including a trip to the supermarket.
The bombings that turned America's oldest and most prestigious road race into a scene of blood and horror had killed three people and wounded more than 260 others, many of them grievously. President Obama called the episode an "act of terror." The heart of the city, Copley Square and much of Boylston Street, was paralyzed for days as hundreds of city, state and federal law enforcement personnel scoured the area for evidence and later cast a huge dragnet across the metropolitan region for the suspects, who would soon be identified as the Tsarnaev brothers.
During that time, the brothers picked up their daily routines and blended back into the area that had become enmeshed in trauma. For the most part, they appeared calm, according to people who saw them, raising no suspicions that anything was amiss, let alone that they might have had anything to do with the attack.
For more than three days — from the time of the explosions at 2:50 p.m. on Monday, April 15, until the F.B.I. released their photographs to the world at 5 p.m. on Thursday, April 18 — the very ordinariness of their activities let the brothers hide in plain sight.
"It's scary to think that he was around here, listening to everyone talking about the bombers and stuff like that," Bobby Kedski, a sophomore at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, said of Dzhokhar, a fellow student there, whom he saw working out in a campus gym on Tuesday night. "He was just amongst us, taking it all in. It's scary to think about that."
Slipping back into a routine after committing a crime, even an atrocity, is fairly typical behavior, said Dr. Stuart W. Twemlow, a retired professor of psychology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He works on threat assessment with the F.B.I. and helped on the Columbine shootings, among other cases.
A return to business as usual helps a criminal "blot out the horror with which he was associated," Dr. Twemlow said.
"That is a normal, dissociative response," he said, adding that the younger brother, whose movements were more public, had most likely "denied and compartmentalized what he had just done."
Dzhokhar may have spent Monday night with his brother in Cambridge, which he often did, because the university had no record of his return to campus on Monday. Wherever he was, he continued to send out Twitter messages.
After his first post-bombing message, at 8:04 p.m. on Monday, he picked up a conversation at 12:11 a.m. Tuesday with a friend on Twitter who has since deleted his account. Dzhokhar's end of the conversation is all that is visible, leaving the context unclear.
What's new with them? Dzhokhar asked. His next post to the friend, a couple of minutes later said: and they what "god hates dead people?" Or victims of tragedies? Lol those people are cooked.
At 12:34 a.m., the next Twitter message was sent from an iPhone: There are people that know the truth but stay silent & there are people that speak the truth but we don't hear them cuz they're the minority.
He "favorited," or bookmarked, a post on Twitter that had appeared at 1:20 a.m.: The sad part about the events in Boston today, is that some bs Hollywood director is gonna try n make a movie n profit from tragic events.
He was back on Twitter later Tuesday, when he favorited a 11:21 a.m. post from a classmate: Thanks UMD, a freezing shower is exactly what I needed right now.
Between 12:30 and 1 that afternoon, Dzhokhar picked up a car that he had dropped off at a repair shop in Somerville, next to Cambridge, a couple of weeks before to fix a damaged bumper, suddenly saying he needed it immediately.
This was one of the few times during that week when someone described Dzhokhar as appearing anxious and out of character. Gilberto Junior, who owns the shop, thought Dzhokhar was either nervous or on drugs.
"He was biting his fingernails, and I noticed he was shaking his legs," Mr. Junior said.
Mr. Junior explained that to fix the car's bumper, he had had to remove it, as well as the taillights, so it would be illegal to drive. But Mr. Tsarnaev insisted on taking it anyway, Mr. Junior recalled.
"He said, 'I don't care. I need the car right now,' so I gave him the keys," Mr. Junior said.
He said he was picking it up for a friend, and explained, " 'I need the car now because my friend, she's upset,' " Mr. Junior quoted him as saying. " 'She wants the car, she wants the car, she wants the car.' So I said, 'O.K.' "
By 1:14 p.m. Dzhokhar was back on Twitter. In an exchange with another fellow student, he dispensed some medical advice: you need to get Claritin clear.
The other student has since deleted his account so the reply is no longer visible. Within three minutes, Dzhokhar added: #heavy I've been looking for those, there is a shortage on the black market if you wanna make a quick buck, nuff said.
John Eligon and Richard A. Oppel Jr. contributed reporting from Boston, and Jennifer Preston from New York.
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