7:27 P.M. Men Held Saturday 'Unrelated' to Marathon, F.B.I. Says
8:25 p.m. | Updated When two men were held and questioned by police officers and the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Friday, and again Saturday, in New Bedford, Mass., there was speculation of links to the Boston marathon bombings.
But an F.B.I. spokesman said Saturday afternoon that the matter was most likely "unrelated and had to do with visa issues." The spokesman, Jason Pack, referred further questions to the Department of Homeland Security, which did not immediately respond to a message seeking more details.
A spokesman for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement section of the D.H.S. said in an e-mail statement later Saturday that "special agents arrested two foreign nationals this afternoon in New Bedford, Mass. These individuals were arrested on administrative immigration violations."
— Ravi Somaiya
4:46 P.M. Looking for Warning Signs of the Violence to Come
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev never lived in Chechnya, the land of his ancestors. But he was fascinated all the same by Russia's history of aggression in Chechnya, a predominantly Muslim republic, one of his professors said. His older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, posted messages on the Web suggesting an attraction to radicalism. But neither brother appears to have publicly embraced violent jihad.
Yet as investigators try to grasp the brothers' thinking, they are mindful of other cases of longtime American residents who seemed to turn suddenly to jihadi terrorism, like in the New York City attacks on the subway system in 2009 and Times Square in 2010. Read the article by our colleague Scott Shane.
4:29 P.M. Decision to Delay Reading of Rights Stirs Debate
The government's decision to invoke what is known as the "public safety exception" and begin questioning the surviving Boston bombing suspect before reading him a Miranda warning has revived a debate about the rights of those accused of terrorism, our colleague Charlie Savage writes.
The head of the American Civil Liberties Union tells Mr. Savage that while it would be acceptable for the authorities to use the exception to ask Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a naturalized American citizen, about "imminent" threats, "it would be wholly inappropriate and unconstitutional to use it to create the case against the suspect."
The debate has flared before, in the case of a Nigerian man who tried to blow up a Detroit-bound flight in 2009. Read more.
3:37 P.M. Police Release Photos of Suspect Hiding in Boat
The Massachusetts State Police released two thermal-image aerial photographs on Twitter Saturday showing the bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hiding beneath a tarp in a boat in a backyard in Watertown before his capture Friday night. Mr. Tsarnaev's body heat causes him to appear in the photographs, which are time-stamped 7:22 p.m. and 8:01 p.m.
Air Wing views from Watertown manhunt. 5 total pics released.No further info available tonight on pictures http://t.co/2k94oQNF98
— MASS STATE POLICE (@MassStatePolice) 20 Apr 13
Photos taken from State Police Air Wing on Watertown manhunt.Media, please credit MSP for pics. http://t.co/Qzafbp4MBE
— MASS STATE POLICE (@MassStatePolice) 20 Apr 13
The police also released conventional aerial photos that appear to show a mechanical arm attached to a truck peeling back the tarp. The police released no further information about the photos.
From State Police Air Wing Watertown manhunt.Please credit MSP for pics.Unk which police agency shown.4of 5 pics http://t.co/Q6GGwRJrRU
— MASS STATE POLICE (@MassStatePolice) 20 Apr 13
— Andy Newman
2:36 P.M. Governor Says Suspect Is Stable but Too Hurt to Speak
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said Saturday afternoon that the 19-year-old bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was in stable condition but was still too injured to communicate.
"Serious, but stable," Mr. Patrick said outside Fenway Park. He added: "I, and I think all of the law enforcement professionals, are hoping for a host of reasons that the suspect survives, because we have a million questions, and those questions need to be answered. There are parts of the investigation in terms of information and evidence that still needs to be run to ground."
Mr. Tsarnaev was injured in his first of two gunfights with the police on Friday and was "covered with blood," the police said, when a man discovered him hiding in a boat in a backyard in Watertown. It was not clear if he was injured in the second exchange of gunfire.
He is being treated at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, where as many as a dozen victims of Monday's Boston Marathon bombings are still hospitalized.
— Andy Newman and Jess Bidgood
1:50 P.M. Play Resumes, and the Players Remember
As Boston returned to life on Saturday, the team's beloved hockey and baseball teams also returned to action after postponing contests while the city was in lockdown during the manhunt Friday. The Red Sox are playing the Kansas City Royals and, under tight security at Fenway Park, the game got under way shortly after 1 p.m.
In tribute to the victims of those killed and injured at the Boston Marathon on Monday, the team's uniforms have been emblazoned with the word "Boston" across the front instead of "Red Sox."
Special thanks to the #RedSox for the dedication in today's game!
— Boston Police Dept. (@Boston_Police) 20 Apr 13
Across town, at the TD Garden, the Boston Bruins faced off against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Before the 12:30 p.m. game began, players from both teams wore black and gold T-shirts with the "Boston Strong" logo and hats of the Boston and Watertown Police Departments.
#BostonSports goin' hahd in the game today, playing for those who were lost or injured #BSTRONG
— ChelCCO (@ChelSEAstheday) 20 Apr 13
— Marc Santora
1:40 P.M. Watertown Chief Describes Showdowns With Suspects
Chief Edward Deveau of the Watertown, Mass., Police Department offered fresh details Saturday about Friday's confrontations with the Tsarnaev brothers.
In an interview on CNN, Chief Deveau told how the older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, burst out of a stolen S.U.V. shooting at the police, only to run out of ammunition, be tackled by officers and then get run over by his younger brother, Dzhokhar.
The chief also described how, when Dzhokhar was cornered in a boat in a backyard on Friday night, he poked his head out from under a tarp to shoot at the police.
Late Thursday night, Chief Deveau said, after the brothers killed a campus police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and carjacked a Mercedes S.U.V., "for some reason they ended up coming to Watertown," just west of Cambridge.
The brothers were driving two cars, the S.U.V. and a Honda. The S.U.V. owner's cellphone was still in the car. "Lucky for him and lucky for us that his cellphone remained in that vehicle, so we were able to get updates" on its location, Chief Deveau said.
Around 12:30 a.m., on a residential street, a Watertown police officer spotted the vehicles. He radioed for backup.
Law enforcement officers from across the Boston area were heading to the scene, he said, but before they could arrive, the brothers stopped their cars and opened fire.
"The two brothers are shooting at my first police officer," the chief said. Other officers pulled up. Soon there were "six police officers in this very tight area engaged in a gunfight."
"During the exchange, all of a sudden, something got thrown at my police officers," he said. "There is a major explosion." In all, he said, three bombs exploded during the exchange. Two that were thrown did not detonate. Mr. Deveau estimated that there were some 200 rounds shot during the 5- to 10-minute exchange of gunfire.
At some point, Mr. Deveau said, Tamerlan "comes out from under cover and just starts walking down the street shooting at our police officers."
Tamerlan was "5 to 10 feet away," still exchanging fire with the officers, when he suddenly stopped.
"He runs out of ammunition, the bad guy," Chief Deveau said. At that point, "one of my police officers comes from the side and tackles him in the street."
He was joined by two other officers, who wrestled Tamerlan to the ground and tried to handcuff him.
"At the same time, at the last minute, one of them yells out 'Look out!' and here comes the black S.U.V., the carjacked car, directly at them," he said.
"They dive out of the way and he runs over his brother and drags him a short distance down the street," he said.
Tamerlan was fatally injured. A transit police officer, Richard H. Donohue, was critically injured in the shootout.
Dzhokhar sped away as the police continued to fire at him.
"He got down two or three streets," Chief Deveau said. "He dumps the car and runs into the darkness of the streets."
It was the last the police would see of him until Friday evening, when a Watertown resident noticed blood on a boat he had stored in his backyard, peeked in and saw a bloodied man under a plastic tarp.
When police arrived he said, they saw the suspect "poking through the plastic" that covered the boat, the chief said.
Soon, officers exchanged gunfire with him. Thousands of law enforcement officers involved in one of the nation's largest manhunts converged on the home.
After the gunfire subsided, he said, the authorities determined the fugitive was still alive, making use of heat-tracking technology provided by a helicopter circling overhead.
A negotiator from the F.B.I. then led 20 tense minutes of negotiations.
"We have a negotiator who was actually on the second floor of the house looking down," Chief Deveau said. "No one wanted to go near him until we could get him to understand that we needed him to lift his shirt up and we could see his chest," he said.
Mr. Tsarnaev did not have explosives on his body, Chief Deveau said, but federal investigators were still combing through the crime scene on Saturday morning and he was unaware of anything they might have found.
Chief Deveau said it was amazing that none of his officers were killed.
"How the Watertown police are not attending a funeral of our own based on what happened on that street over that period of time is just talent, guts, and glory," he said.
— Marc Santora
11:51 A.M. Suspects' Mother Says They Are Innocent
Both the mother and the father of the brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon have said that they believe their children are innocent and have been framed.
Their mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaev, said in a brief telephone interview aired on Russia Today television, a state-financed satellite news channel, that her sons — Tamerlan, 26, who was killed during a confrontation with authorities, and Dzhokhar, 19, who was wounded — could never have committed the kinds of crimes of which they are being accused.
"I am 100 percent sure this is a setup," she said. "My two sons are really innocent." Ms. Tsarnaev continued: "My youngest one, he was raised in America. My oldest son, he was proper." (On Friday, The New York Times published an interview with the suspects' father, Anzor Tsarnaev.)
If the brothers were involved in something like Monday's attack, Ms. Tsarnaev said, they "would never hide it from me." She added, "But never ever even a word."
Ms. Tsarnaev said that the F.B.I. had been aware of one of her sons' activities for years, but did not say which one or explain why the authorities might have been in touch with him.
"He was counseled by F.B.I. for at least five years," she said. "They knew what my son was doing. They knew what action, what sites on Internet he was going." The F.B.I. said Friday night that agents had interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev and other family members in 2011 at the request of an unnamed foreign government and "did not find any terrorism activity, domestic or foreign."
Ms. Tsarnaev said that Tamerlan became involved in Islam five years ago but never expressed any violent intentions. "He started following some religious aspects, and he never never told me that he would be on side of jihad," she said.
— Marc Santora and Ellen Barry
10:35 A.M. Details Emerge About Photo of Wounded Suspect
A photo that circulated widely online Saturday showing the Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, being treated by medical workers was taken moments after he was taken out of a boat in the backyard of a home in Watertown, Mass., where he had been holed up, a federal official said.
"There are two things going on," explained Charles J. Mulham, a spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. "They are checking to see if he has any explosive on him, and they are also checking him out medically."
He said that Mr. Tsarnaev, who suffered gunshot wounds to the neck and leg, had lost a lot of blood at that point and that he was not sure if he was coherent at the time of his capture.
The photo was disseminated internally to federal agents via e-mail, Mr. Mulham said. The e-mail congratulated agents on all the work they did in helping end one of the largest manhunts in the nation's history. Mr. Mulhan said the photo was not formally released but was distributed to agents around the country.
— Marc Santora and Darcy Eveleigh
10:11 A.M. Student Falsely Implicated in Attack Is Still Missing
For a few hours on Friday, Sunil Tripathi, a 22-year-old Brown University student who has been missing since March 16, was rumored to be the bombing suspect with the white hat in photos that the F.B.I. released, after reports began circulating that the Boston Police Department had named him.
Mr. Tripathi was soon cleared of any link to the bombings. Reddit, which played a role in spreading the false report, apologized to Mr. Tripathi's family.
But Mr. Tripathi's sister Sangeeta Tripathi tells our colleagues at the India Ink blog that the brief ordeal has compounded an already agonizing situation.
"The harm done to my family is profound and more profound than an apology later," Ms. Tripathi said. Read more on India Ink.
9:38 A.M. In Watertown, Waiting Out the Barrage of Gunfire
Right after the police lifted the lockdown in Watertown, Mass., and said it was safe for residents to return to the streets Friday night, Sean Finn bolted from his house.
"We need milk; I need cigarettes," he said, according to his wife, Deanna.
But the drama was not yet over. After Ms. Finn went out the back door of her caramel two-story clapboard house to chat with a neighbor, police officers started yelling, "Back in the house! Back in the house!"
Moments later came the ear-piercing gunfire. "Pow, pow, pow, pow, pow," she said. "It had to be 30."
Ms. Finn grabbed her 9-year-old son Sean by the arm and pulled him into the bathroom. They lay flat on the floor, and Ms. Finn eventually put her body over his. She flushed the toilet a couple of times to drown out the gunfire.
"It was very, very scary," she said.
A few minutes later, after Ms. Finn had tentatively crawled to the living room, she noticed that her neighbors Dumitru and Olga Ciuc, who lived two houses down from where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was holed up, were sitting on her porch.
The Ciucs, Romanian immigrants, had been rousted from their house by the police. Leave the house, an officer had told them. Just leave. No explanation. When gunshots rang out, they had dropped to the pavement and hid behind a car before making their way to Ms. Finn's house. She invited the Ciucs in, and together they rode out the screaming commands of the police and the bellowing growls of flash grenades.
The noise stopped. Ms. Finn peeked out onto her porch and asked a passing officer, "Are we happy police?"
The officer gave her a thumbs up.
When the Ciucs were finally allowed to return home, they found the ransacked remnants of a SWAT command center. Officers had taken positions in second-floor rooms of their home that overlooked the large boat covered in a white tarp where Mr. Tsarnaev took cover.
In a room that their granddaughter uses, dressers were shifted about. Windows and blinds were removed and piled on the bed on top of Dora the Explorer music book and a stuffed dog.
As Mr. Ciuc, 61, picked up a window panel from the bed to reinstall it into what was now a gap in his wall where a stiff wind blew through, he smirked.
"Oh my God," he said. "I love the F.B.I."
— John Eligon
8:18 A.M. Obama's Radio Address
President Obama, in his weekly radio address Saturday morning, once again praised the first responders, the doctors and "the big-hearted people of Boston" who gave the world "stories of heroism and kindness, resolve and resilience, generosity and love."
"If anyone wants to know who we are, what America is, how we respond to evil and terror – that's it," Mr. Obama said. "Selflessly. Compassionately. And unafraid."
He added: "In the days to come, we will remain vigilant as a nation. And I have no doubt the city of Boston and its surrounding communities will continue to respond in the same proud and heroic way that they have thus far – and their fellow Americans will be right there with them every step of the way."
Read the transcript.
— Andy Newman
This post has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: April 20, 2013
An earlier version of this post misspelled the surname of a spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. He is Charles Mulham, not Mulhan.
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