Oh my goodness this is so awful for everyone involved. My brother lives in Boston and he couldn't even leave his house to go to work. I read that the aunt of the bombers is saying she believes this whole thing was staged and her nephews are innocent but how could this be? What would be the purpose of framing two innocent guys?
All the classmates of the younger one who is now in police custody, expressed disbelief. So far, nobody has described them as "Weird" or having a suspicious attitude(most of the time, suspects in these sort of cases are described that way). In this case, they all describe the suspects as normal, laid back, looking very relaxed and normal and one of them even went to a party after the bombings.
The uncle is saying his older nephew was "Radicalized" in the United States and the young brother was just used by the oldest.
Handguns, a rifle and at least six bombs -- three of which exploded -- were found at the scene early Friday after officers first confronted the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects in the darkness of a residential street, the Watertown, Massachusetts, police chief told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Saturday.
A single officer was the first to encounter the two cars that Tamerlan and Dzhokar Tsarnaev were driving, just before 1 a.m. Friday, Chief Edward Deveau said.
Before the officer could get backup, the two cars stopped, and the brothers got out.
"They jump out of the car and unload on our police officer," Deveau said "They both came out shooting -- shooting guns, handguns. He's under direct fire, very close by. He has to jam it in reverse and try to get himself a little distance."
Five other police officers, including two who had just finished their shifts, then arrived at what Deveau called a "Very tight area" in the middle of an intense shootout. One of the officers was wounded.
"We estimate there was over 200 shots fired in a five- to 10-minute period," Deveau said.
One of the brothers threw an explosive at the officers. They later discovered it was a pressure cooker bomb, similar to the ones used at the marathon Monday, the chief said. Ref. CNN
For those like theorizing that they could have been setup then I'll ask you this... Why did they have so much fire power with them when on the chase? If they were truly innocent all they had to do was turn their selves in or get a lwyer, but they didn't.
Although the criminal action of these 2 Chechnians Amricans are despicable, having directed their hatred of being rejected by the US Citizenship official due to their restrict policies, they took revenge on innocent people.
On one side their action are condamnable ,on the other side US citizenship with their super Paranoide discriminatory behavior towards certain Nations creat HATRED among those people of other nations by rejecting their claims to become immigrant in USA.
Racisme, prejudice and discrimination has grown much in USA, specialy in the US government administration.
Treat others as you want them to treat you.
This US government why they don't practice what they are preaching ?!
Hypocrites, all are racists hypocrites.
Walterhero,I admit there area lot of people being discriminated in this country but most of them don't go around planting bombs and killing people. If these two people are guilty, there is more to the picture than just hate and discrimination.
Play by Post, if they're the perpetrators how come they didn't leave the country right after? Their pictures weren't released right away. They are either fools or very ignorant which won't match the description of them.