Boston Marathon bombing#Identification and search for suspects

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The 117th annual Boston Marathon was run on Patriots' Day, April 15, 2013. At {{Nowrap |2:49{{nbsp}}p.m. EDT}} {{Nowrap|(18:49 UTC)}}, two bombs detonated about {{convert|210|yd|m}} apart at the finish line on Boylston Street near Copley Square. The first exploded outside Marathon Sports at 671–673 Boylston Street at 2:49:43{{nbsp}}p.m. At the time of the first explosion, the race clock at the finish line showed 04:09:43—the elapsed time since the Wave 3 start at 10:40{{nbsp}}a.m. The second bomb exploded at 2:49:57{{nbsp}}p.m., 14 seconds later and one block farther west at 755 Boylston Street. The explosions took place nearly three hours after the winning runner crossed the finish line, but with more than 5,700 runners yet to finish.

Windows on adjacent buildings were blown out, but there was no structural damage. Runners continued to cross the line until 2:57{{nbsp}}p.m.

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Rescue workers and medical personnel, on hand as usual for the marathon, gave aid as additional police, fire, and medical units were dispatched, including from surrounding cities as well as private ambulances from all over the state. The explosions killed three civilians and injured 264 others.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/04/us/politics/supreme-court-death-sentence-boston-marathon-bomber.html | title=Supreme Court Restores Death Sentence for Boston Marathon Bomber | work=The New York Times | date=March 4, 2022 | last1=Liptak | first1=Adam }}

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Police, following emergency plans, diverted all remaining runners to Boston Common and Kenmore Square. The nearby Lenox Hotel and other buildings surrounding the scene were evacuated. Immediately after the bombing occurred and medically injured people were transported, the police closed a 15-block area around the blast site; this was reduced to a 12-block crime scene the next day. Boston police commissioner Edward F. Davis recommended that people stay off the streets.

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Dropped bags and packages, abandoned as their owners fled from the blasts, increased uncertainty as to the possible presence of more bombs and many false reports were received. Simultaneously an electrical fire at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in nearby Dorchester was initially feared to be a bomb.{{Cite web |last=Trotter |first=J. K. |date=2013-04-16 |title=What Happened at Boston's JFK Library? |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/04/what-happened-boston-jfk-library/316236/ |access-date=2024-04-10 |website=The Atlantic}}

The airspace over Boston was restricted, and departures halted from Boston's Logan International Airport. Some local transit service was halted as well.

The Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency suggested that people trying to contact those in the vicinity use text messaging instead of voice calls because of the crowded cell phone lines. Cell phone service in Boston was congested but remained in operation, despite some media reports stating that cell service was shut down to prevent cell phones from being used as detonators.

The American Red Cross helped concerned friends and family receive information about runners and casualties. The Boston Police Department also set up a call helpline for people concerned about relatives or acquaintances to contact and a line for people to provide information. Google Person Finder activated their disaster service under Boston Marathon Explosions to log known information about missing people as a publicly viewable file.

Due to the closure of several hotels near the blast zone, a number of visitors were left with nowhere to stay; many Boston-area residents opened their homes to them.

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File:Barack Obama discussing the 2013 Boston Marathon explosions.jpg of the White House in which officials briefed President Barack Obama on the investigation (L–R: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano; Dept. Nat. Security Advr. Antony Blinken; Nat. Security Avdr. to the VP Jake Sullivan; USAG Eric Holder; Asst. to the President Lisa Monaco; Chief of Staff Denis McDonough; and FBI Dir. Robert Mueller; Obama)]]

The Federal Bureau of Investigation led the investigation, assisted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Counterterrorism Center, and the Drug Enforcement Administration. It was initially believed by some that North Korea was behind the attack.{{Cite web|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/north-korea-blamed-for-boston-bombings-2013-4?IR=T|title=North Korea Adamantly Denies Conspiracy Theory Linking It to Boston Bombing|website=Business Insider}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.ibtimes.com/north-korea-denies-any-link-boston-marathon-bombs-says-it-still-may-strike-us-1211721|title=North Korea Denies Any Link to Boston Marathon Bombs, but Says It Still May Strike US|website=International Business Times|date=April 24, 2013}}

United States government officials stated that no intelligence reports suggested such an attack. Representative Peter King, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said: "I received two top secret briefings last week on the current threat levels in the United States, and there was no evidence of this at all."

Evidence found near the blast sites included bits of metal, nails, ball bearings, black nylon pieces from a backpack, remains of an electronic circuit board and wiring. A pressure cooker lid was found on a nearby rooftop. Both of the improvised explosive devices were pressure cooker bombs manufactured by the bombers. Authorities confirmed that the brothers used bomb-making instructions found in Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula's Inspire magazine. After the suspects were identified, The Boston Globe reported that Tamerlan purchased fireworks from a fireworks store in New Hampshire.

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Firefight and manhunt: Watertown, Massachusetts

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Jeff Bauman was immediately adjacent to one of the bombs and lost both legs; he wrote while in the hospital: "Bag, saw the guy, looked right at me". He later gave a detailed description of the suspects, which enabled images of them to be identified and circulated quickly.

At 5:00{{nbsp}}p.m. on April 18, three days after the bombing, the FBI released images of two suspects carrying backpacks, asking the public's help in identifying them. The FBI said that they were doing this in part to limit harm to people wrongly identified by news reports and on social media.

As seen on video, the suspects stayed to observe the chaos after the explosions, then walked away casually. The public sent authorities a deluge of photographs and videos. The FBI-released images depicted Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.Yashwant Raj, [http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/Chunk-HT-UI-WorldSectionPage-BostonBlast/Boston-bomber-partied-with-friends-after-attack/Article1-1048258.aspx "Boston Bomber Partied with Friends after Attack"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626150311/http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/Chunk-HT-UI-WorldSectionPage-BostonBlast/Boston-bomber-partied-with-friends-after-attack/Article1-1048258.aspx |date=June 26, 2015}}, Hindustan Times, April 22, 2013.

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Hours after the FBI released photos of the two suspects in the bombing, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev visited their family's apartment in Cambridge. There, they obtained five improvised explosive devices (IEDs), ammunition, a semiautomatic handgun, and a machete. The two brothers then drove to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

On April 18, 2013 at 10:25 p.m., the Tsarnaev brothers ambushed and shot Sean A. Collier of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Department six times. The two brothers were attempting to steal Collier's Smith & Wesson M&P45 sidearm, which they could not free from his holster because of its security retention system.{{cite news|date=April 23, 2013|title=Police believe Tsarnaev brothers killed officer for his gun|work=CBS News|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/police-believe-tsarnaev-brothers-killed-officer-for-his-gun/|access-date=April 11, 2015}} Collier, aged 27, was seated in his police car near Building 32 on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus. He died shortly after the shooting.

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The brothers then carjacked a Mercedes-Benz M-Class SUV in the Allston-Brighton neighborhood of Boston. Tamerlan took the owner, Chinese national Dun "Danny" Meng{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boston-marathon-bombing-jurors-see-dramatic-video-of-carjack-victims-escape/|title=Boston bombing jurors see dramatic video of carjack victim's escape|agency=CBS/AP | work=CBS News | date=March 12, 2015|access-date=March 12, 2015}} ({{zh|c=孟盾}}),Chinese name from: {{cite news|url=http://ny.uschinapress.com/weekends/2017/01-13/111620.html|title=《爱国者日》上映 再现波马爆炸案 留学生孟盾事迹搬...|newspaper=The China Press|date=January 13, 2017|access-date=September 22, 2018|archive-date=September 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180921191256/http://ny.uschinapress.com/weekends/2017/01-13/111620.html|url-status=dead}} hostage and told him that he was responsible for the Boston bombing and for shooting Collier. Dzhokhar followed them in their green Honda Civic, later joining them in the Mercedes-Benz. Interrogation later revealed that the brothers "decided spontaneously" that they wanted to go to New York and bomb Times Square.

The Tsarnaev brothers forced Meng to use his ATM cards to obtain $800 in cash (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US|800|2013|fmt=c}} in {{Inflation/year|US}}). They transferred objects to the Mercedes-Benz and one brother followed it in their Civic, for which an all-points bulletin was issued. The Tsarnaev brothers then drove to a Shell gas station on Memorial Drive in Cambridge to fill up for the long drive to Times Square. While Dzhokhar went inside the Shell station to pay for food, Meng, fearing that the suspects would harm him during the drive, escaped from the Mercedes and ran across the street to a Mobil gas station, asking the clerk to call 911. His cell phone remained in the vehicle, allowing the police to focus their search on Watertown.

Shortly after midnight on April 19, Watertown police officer Joseph Reynolds identified the brothers in the Honda and the stolen Mercedes after overhearing radio traffic that the vehicle was "pinged" by Cambridge officers on Dexter Avenue in Watertown. Reynolds followed the vehicle while waiting for additional units to perform a high-risk traffic stop when the suspect vehicles both turned onto Laurel Street and stopped at the intersection of Laurel and Dexter.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

Tamerlan Tsarnaev stepped out of the Mercedes and immediately opened fire on Officer Reynolds and Sergeant John MacLellan, who both returned fire and requested emergency assistance over their radios. A gun battle ensued between Tsarnaev, the aforementioned officers, and additional officers responding to the "shots fired" radio transmissions from Reynolds and MacLellan in the 100 block of Laurel St. An estimated 200 to 300 shots were fired. The suspects shot 56 times, detonated at least one pressure cooker bomb, and threw five "crude grenades", three of which exploded.

The agencies involved in the nearly seven-minute shootout included the Watertown Police Department, Cambridge Police Department, Boston Police Department, Massachusetts State Police (MSP), Boston University Police Department, and MBTA Transit Police Department. Most of the officers involved were equipped by their respective agencies with either the Glock 22 or Glock 23 .40 S&W-caliber pistols. MSP troopers were armed with Smith & Wesson M&P45 pistols chambered in .45 ACP; this led investigators to match the 9mm casings and projectiles found at the scene to the suspects' 9mm Ruger P95 pistol.

According to Watertown Police Chief Edward Deveau, the brothers had an "arsenal of guns". Tamerlan eventually ran out of ammunition and threw his empty Ruger pistol at Watertown PD Sergeant Jeffrey Pugliese, who subsequently tackled him with assistance from Sergeant MacLellan.{{cite news|last1=DeWitt|first1=Vincent|title=Watertown Mass. Police describe takedown of Boston Marathon bombers|url=https://nypost.com/2013/07/08/exclusive-watertown-mass-police-describe-takedown-of-boston-marathon-bombers/|access-date=March 26, 2016|work=New York Post|date=July 8, 2013}}{{cite news|last1=Smith|first1=Tovia|title=Filming For Marathon Bombing Movie Stirs Emotions In Boston|url=https://www.npr.org/2016/03/25/471755112/-its-going-to-trigger-lot-of-ptsd-boston-prepares-for-marathon-bombing-film|access-date=March 26, 2016|work=NPR|date=March 25, 2016}}

Tamerlan's younger brother Dzhokhar then drove the stolen SUV toward Tamerlan and the police, who unsuccessfully tried to drag Tamerlan out of the car's path and handcuff him; the car ran over Tamerlan and dragged him a short distance down the street, narrowly missing the Watertown officers. Watertown Sgt. MacLellan later stated that the younger brother had thought they were doing CPR on another officer and tried to run them over. Dzhokhar abandoned the car half a mile away and fled on foot. Badly wounded, Tamerlan Tsarnaev was taken into custody and died at 1:35{{nbsp}}a.m. at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.{{Cite news|last=Bidgood|first=Jess|date=May 4, 2013|title=Autopsy Says Boston Bombing Suspect Died of Gunshot Wounds and Blunt Trauma|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/us/autopsy-says-boston-bombing-suspect-died-of-gunshot-wounds-and-blunt-trauma.html|access-date=September 7, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Police Officer Richard H. Donohue Jr. was critically wounded in the leg in crossfire from other officers shooting at the fleeing vehicle, but survived. Reports revealed that his gunshot wound severed his femoral artery, and he nearly died. Fast-acting efforts by his fellow officers and medical personnel saved his life.{{cite news |date=April 15, 2014 |title=Donohue Talks Miracle Survival On Toucher & Rich: 'I Don't Have An Explanation For It' |url=http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/04/15/dic-donohue-talks-miracle-survival-on-toucher-and-rich/ |newspaper=CBS Boston}} Boston Police Department officer Dennis Simmonds was injured by a hand grenade and died on April 10, 2014. Fifteen other officers were also injured. A later report by Harvard Kennedy School's Program on Crisis Leadership concluded that lack of coordination among police agencies had put the public at excessive risk during the shootout.{{cite news |last1=Schworm |first1=Peter |last2=Cramer |first2=Maria |date=April 30, 2013 |title=Harvard report praises response to Marathon bombings |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/04/02/harvard-university-report-draws-lessons-from-marathon-bombings/qhXQcxi6jCxQqQnojtC3dP/story.html |newspaper=The Boston Globe}}

Only one firearm, Tsarnaev's Ruger P95, was recovered at the scene. That firearm was found to have a defaced serial number.{{cite news | first1 = Jack | last1 = Date | first2 = Matthew |last2 = Mosk | title = Single Gun Recovered From Accused Bombers | date = April 24, 2013 | publisher = ABC News | url = https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/single-gun-recovered-accused-boston-bombers/story?id=19028841 | work = ABC The Blotter | access-date = May 16, 2013}}

{{further|Dzhokhar Tsarnaev|Tamerlan Tsarnaev}}

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Records on the Honda left at the Watertown shootout scene identified the bombers{{cite web|url=http://investigations.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/01/17991679-green-honda-could-prove-crucial-if-tsarnaev-charged-in-mit-officers-killing?lite |title=Green Honda could prove crucial if Tsarnaev charged in MIT officer's killing – Investigations |publisher=Investigations.nbcnews.com |date=August 29, 2010 |access-date=July 24, 2013}} Tamerlan and Dzhokhar "Jahar" Tsarnaev. The FBI released additional photos of the two during the Watertown incident. Early on April 19, investigators released the name and photo of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to the public. In addition, Watertown residents received automated calls asking them to stay indoors. That same morning Governor Patrick asked residents of Watertown and adjacent cities and townsBoston, Belmont, Brookline, Cambridge, Newton, and Waltham to "shelter in place". Somerville residents also received automated calls instructing them to shelter in place.

A 20-block area of Watertown was cordoned off, and residents were told not to leave their homes or answer the door as officers scoured the area in tactical gear. Helicopters circled the area and SWAT teams in armored vehicles moved through in formation, with officers going door to door and searching houses. These actions generated discussions about the legality of searching large numbers of houses without a search warrant, with The Atlantic stating that this kind of search is legal due to exigent circumstances.{{Cite web |last=Bump |first=Philip |date=2013-04-22 |title=Boston's Door-to-Door Searches Weren't Illegal, Even Though They Looked Bad |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/04/boston-door-to-door-searches-legal/316042/ |access-date=2022-09-06 |website=The Atlantic}} Agencies on the scene were the FBI; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; Diplomatic Security Service; HSI-ICE; the National Guard; the Boston, Cambridge, and Watertown Police departments; and the Massachusetts State Police. The show of force was the first major field test of the interagency task forces created in the wake of the September 11 attacks.

The entire public transit network and most Boston taxi services{{Efn|Taxi service was restored before the search ended and transit service resumed.}} were suspended, as was Amtrak service to and from Boston. Logan International Airport remained open under heightened security. Universities, schools, businesses, and other facilities were closed as thousands of law enforcement personnel participated in the door-to-door search in Watertown. Others followed up on other leads, including searching the house that the brothers shared in Cambridge, where seven improvised explosive devices were found.{{cite news|url=http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/20/17823265-we-got-him-boston-bombing-suspect-captured-alive|title='We got him!': Boston bombing suspect captured alive|last1=Williams|first1=Pete|last2=Esposito|first2=Richard|date=April 8, 2015|work=NBC News|access-date=April 8, 2015|last3=Isikoff|first3=Michael|last4=Connor|first4=Tracy}}

The brothers' father spoke from his home in Makhachkala, Dagestan, encouraging Dzhokhar to: "Give up. You have a bright future ahead of you. Come home to Russia." He continued, "If they killed him, then all hell would break loose." On television, Dzhokhar's uncle from Montgomery Village, Maryland, pleaded with him to turn himself in.

Also on April 19, the FBI, West New York Police Department, and Hudson County Sheriff's Department seized computer equipment from the apartment of the Tsarnaevs' sister in West New York, New Jersey.

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On the evening of April 19, after the shelter-in-place order had been lifted, David Henneberry, a Watertown resident outside the search area, noticed that the tarpaulin on his parked boat was loose. Investigating, he saw a body lying inside the boat in a pool of blood. He contacted the authorities at 6:42 p.m., and they surrounded the boat. A police helicopter verified movement through a thermal imaging device. The figure inside started poking at the tarpaulin, prompting police to shoot at the boat.

According to Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis and Watertown Police Chief Deveau, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was shooting at police from inside the boat, "exchanging fire for an hour".{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/19/suspect-in-custody-newspaper-says/2095845/ |access-date=April 20, 2013 |title=As manhunt ends, new questions emerge in Boston bombings |author=Johnson, Kevin |work=USA Today |date=April 20, 2013}} A subsequent report indicated that the firing lasted for a shorter time. Despite this, Tsarnaev was found to have no weapon when he was captured.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested at 8:42{{nbsp}}p.m. and taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, where he was listed in critical condition with gunshot wounds to the head, neck, legs, and hand. Initial reports that the neck wound represented a suicide attempt were contradicted by Tsarnaev's being found unarmed. The situation was chaotic, according to a police source quoted by The Washington Post, and the firing of weapons occurred during "the fog of war". A subsequent review by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts provided this more specific summary: "One officer fired his weapon without appropriate authority in response to perceived movement in the boat, and surrounding officers followed suit in a round of 'contagious fire', assuming Tsarnaev was firing on them. Weapons continued to be fired for several seconds until on-scene supervisors ordered a ceasefire and regained control of the scene. The unauthorized shots created another dangerous crossfire situation".{{cite web |url=http://www.mass.gov/eopss/docs/mema/after-action-report-for-the-response-to-the-2013-boston-marathon-bombings.pdf |title=After Action Report for the Response to the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings |date=December 2014 |website=Government of Massachusetts |publisher=Executive Office of Public Safety and Security |access-date=October 10, 2017 |quote=Improvement Area 4, Lack of Weapons Discipline, page 114}} The confusion was caused in part by a lack of clearly identified and coordinated law enforcement command of the thousands of officers from surrounding communities who self-deployed into the Watertown area during the events.{{cite web |url=http://www.mass.gov/eopss/docs/mema/after-action-report-for-the-response-to-the-2013-boston-marathon-bombings.pdf |title=After Action Report for the Response to the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombings |date=December 2014 |website=Government of Massachusetts |publisher=Executive Office of Public Safety and Security |access-date=February 20, 2020 |quote=Improvement Areas 4.1 and 4.8, pages 113 & 117}}

After Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was taken into custody, the FBI revealed that it had investigated Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011 after the FSB, the Russian intelligence agency, had expressed concern about his potential radicalization. That investigation included an interview with Tamerlan Tsarnaev. At that time, the FBI found no evidence of terrorist involvement by Tamerlan Tsarnaev.{{cite web|url=https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/pressrel/press-releases/2011-request-for-information-on-tamerlan-tsarnaev-from-foreign-government |title=2011 Request for Information on Tamerlan Tsarnaev from Foreign Government |website=archives.fbi.gov|date=April 19, 2013}}{{cite web | url=https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/boston-bombing-anniversary/russia-warned-u-s-about-tsarnaev-spelling-issue-let-him-n60836 | title=Russia Warned U.S. About Tsarnaev, but Spelling Issue Let Him Escape | website=NBC News | date=March 25, 2014 }}{{Cite web |date=2014-03-26 |title=Russia warned U.S. about Boston Marathon bomb suspect Tsarnaev: report |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBREA2P02R/ |access-date=2024-09-10 |website=Reuters}}

On April 24, investigators reported that they had reconstructed the bombs, and believed that they had been triggered by remote controls used for toy cars.

United States Senators Kelly Ayotte, Saxby Chambliss, Lindsey Graham, and John McCain, and Representative Peter T. King suggested that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a U.S. citizen, should be tried as an unlawful enemy combatant rather than as a criminal, potentially preventing him from obtaining legal counsel. Others said that doing so would be illegal, including prominent American legal scholar and lawyer Alan Dershowitz, and would jeopardize the prosecution. The government decided to try Dzhokhar in the federal criminal court system and not as an enemy combatant.

Dzhokhar was questioned for 16 hours by investigators but stopped communicating with them on the night of April 22 after Judge Marianne Bowler read him a Miranda warning. Dzhokhar had not previously been given a Miranda warning, as federal law enforcement officials invoked the warning's public safety exception. This raised doubts whether his statements during this investigation would be admissible as evidence and led to a debate surrounding Miranda rights.{{cite news|title=The Right to Remain Silent: Dzokhar Tsarnaev, the Public Safety Exception, and Miranda in a post-911 World|url=http://www.marathonlawdenver.com/2013/04/22/dzokharpublicsafetyexceptionmiranda/|newspaper=Marathon Law|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130613153900/http://www.marathonlawdenver.com/2013/04/22/dzokharpublicsafetyexceptionmiranda/|date=April 22, 2013|archive-date=June 13, 2013|access-date=April 10, 2015}}{{cite news|last=Cohen|first=Andrew|title=Tsarnaev Without Tears: The Legal Way Forward|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/04/tsarnaev-without-tears-the-legal-way-forward/275160/|newspaper=The Atlantic|date=April 20, 2013 |access-date= April 11, 2015}}{{cite news|last=Bazelon|first=Emily|title=Why Should I Care That No One's Reading Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights?|url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/04/dzhokhar_tsarnaev_and_miranda_rights_the_public_safety_exception_and_terrorism.html|newspaper=Slate|date=April 19, 2013 |access-date= April 11, 2015}}

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On April 22, 2013, formal criminal charges were brought against Tsarnaev in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts during a bedside hearing while he was hospitalized. He was charged with use of a weapon of mass destruction and with malicious destruction of property resulting in death. Some of the charges carried potential sentences of life imprisonment or the death penalty. Tsarnaev was judged to be awake, mentally competent, and lucid, and he responded to most questions by nodding. The judge asked him whether he was able to afford an attorney and he said no; he was represented by the Federal Public Defender's office. On April 26, Dzhohkar Tsarnaev was moved from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to the Federal Medical Center at Fort Devens, about {{convert|40|mi|km}} from Boston. FMC Devens is a federal prison medical facility at a former Army base where he was held in solitary confinement at a segregated housing unit{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boston-bomb-suspect-in-small-cell-with-steel-door/ |title=Boston bomb suspect in small cell with steel door |work=CBS News |date=April 27, 2013 |access-date=May 17, 2013}} with 23-hour-per-day lockdown.{{cite web|url=http://www.talkleft.com/story/2013/4/28/32151/9400/terrortrials/Dzhokhar-Tsarnaev-in-Solitary-at-Devens-Segregated-Housing-Unit |title=Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Solitary at Devens' Segregated Housing Unit – TalkLeft: The Politics Of Crime |publisher=TalkLeft |date=April 28, 2013 |access-date=May 17, 2013}}

On July 10, 2013, Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to 30 charges in his first public court appearance, including a murder charge for MIT police officer Sean Collier.{{cite news|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-pleads-not-guilty-1.1335011|title=Boston Marathon bombing suspect pleads not guilty|date=July 10, 2013|work=cbc.ca|access-date=April 8, 2015}} He was back in court for a status hearing on September 23,[http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/08/court_papers_say_dzhokhar_tsarnaev_had_fractured_skull_hand "Court papers say Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had fractured skull, hand after manhunt"] by Laurel J. Sweet, The Boston Herald. and his lawyers requested more time to prepare their defense.{{cite news|last=Stanglin|first=Doug|title=Tsarnaev lawyers ask for more time|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/23/boston-bombing-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-death-penalty/2854293/|newspaper=USA Today|date=September 23, 2013 |access-date= April 11, 2015}} On October 2, Tsarnaev's attorneys asked the court to lift the special administrative measures (SAMs) imposed by Attorney General Holder in August, saying that the measures had left Tsarnaev unduly isolated from communication with his family and lawyers, and that no evidence suggested that he posed a future threat.{{cite news|title=Tsarnaev lawyers want prison restrictions eased|first=Milton J.|last=Valencia|date=October 2, 2013|work=The Boston Globe | url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/10/02/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-prison-restrictions-should-eased-attorneys-argue/j14fAHkT50moW41NbxDDGM/story.html}}

{{Main|Trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev}}

Jury selection began on January 5, 2015, and was completed on March 3, with a jury consisting of eight men and ten women (including six alternates).{{cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/02/20/opening-statements-tsarnaev-trial-could-begin-early-march-official-says/4TZWH4KMZY2nXaHLPywTMN/story.html|title=Opening statements in Tsarnaev trial could begin in early March, official says – Metro – The Boston Globe|work=BostonGlobe.com|access-date=April 8, 2015}} The trial began on March 4 with Assistant U.S. Attorney William Weinreb describing the bombing and painting Dzhokhar as "a soldier in a holy war against Americans" whose motive was "reaching paradise". He called the brothers equal participants.{{cite conference|section-url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1681443/tsarnaev-dzkokhar-trial-transcript-3-4-2015.pdf|title=United States v. Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev|section=Excerpt Jury Trial Day Twenty-Seven: Opening Statement by Mr. Weiner |id=No. 13-cr-10200-GAO|date=March 4, 2015}}

Defense attorney Judy Clarke admitted that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had placed the second bomb and was present at the murder of Sean Collier, the carjacking of Dun Meng, and the Watertown shootout, but she emphasized the influence that his older brother had on him, portraying him as a follower.{{cite conference|chapter-url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1681442/tsarnaev-dzkokhar-trial-transcript-3-4-2015-clarke.pdf |title=United States v. Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev |section=Excerpt Jury Trial Day Twenty-Seven: Opening Statement by Ms. Clarke |id=No. 13-cr-10200-GAO|date=March 4, 2015}} Between March 4 and 30, prosecutors called more than 90 witnesses, including bombing survivors who described losing limbs in the attack, and the government rested its case on March 30.{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/30/us/tsarnaev-boston-marathon-bombing-prosecution-ending/|title=U.S. ends Boston bombing case with grisly photos and testimony|author=Ann O'Neill|date=March 30, 2015|work=CNN|access-date=April 8, 2015}} The defense rested as well on March 31, after calling four witnesses.{{cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/03/31/that-all-you-got/Rhw3hu59FPhA0xcrarCzOJ/story.html|title=Tsarnaev defense was able to plant seeds of doubt – Metro – The Boston Globe|work=BostonGlobe.com|access-date=April 8, 2015}}

Tsarnaev was found guilty on all 30 counts on April 8.{{cite news|last1=Sweet|first1=Laurel J.|title=Dzhokhar Tsarnaev convicted on all charges in Boston Marathon bombing trial|url=https://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2015/04/dzhokhar_tsarnaev_convicted_in_boston_marathon_bombing_trial|access-date=April 8, 2015|work=Boston Herald | agency=Herald Media Inc.|date=April 8, 2015|location=United States}} The sentencing phase of the trial began on April 21,{{Cite web|date=2015-04-10|title=Boston Bombing Trial: Penalty Phase to Begin on April 21, Judge Orders|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/boston-bombing-trial/boston-bombing-trial-penalty-phase-begin-april-21-judge-order-n339406|access-date=2021-10-11|website=NBC News}} and a further verdict was reached on May 15 in which it was recommended that he be put to death.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-32762999|title=Boston in shock over Tsarnaev death penalty|work=BBC News|date=May 16, 2015}} Tsarnaev was sentenced to death on June 24, after apologizing to the victims.{{cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/smiling-laughing-tsarnaev-faces-formal-sentencing-boston-bombing/story?id=31992130|title=Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Apologizes for Boston Marathon Bombing|work=ABC News|date=June 24, 2015}} In 2018, Tsarnaev's lawyers appealed on the grounds that a lower-court judge's refusal to move the case to another city not traumatized by the bombings deprived him of a fair trial.{{cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/27/boston-marathon-bomber-appeals-conviction-death-sentence.html|title=Boston Marathon bomber appeals conviction, death sentence|work=CNBC News|date=December 27, 2018}}

On July 30, 2020, Tsarnaev's death sentence was reversed by the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, which found that, during jury selection, the District Court did not properly screen prospective jurors on how much they had heard of the case. The First Circuit vacated the death sentence and three of the other thirty convictions against Tsarnaev, and ordered a new penalty phase jury trial with fresh jurors, leaving the decision of a new change of venue to the District Court. Tsarnaev's remaining convictions still carried multiple life sentences, ensuring that he would remain in prison regardless of the results of the new trial.{{cite web | url = https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/us/boston-marathon-bomber-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-sentence-vacated/index.html | title = Appeals court vacates Boston Marathon bomber's death sentence, orders new penalty trial | first = Sonia | last = Monge | date = July 31, 2020 | access-date = August 1, 2020 | work = CNN}} The United States government appealed this ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, which granted certiorari in the case United States v. Tsarnaev in March 2021, which was argued before the Court on October 13, 2021.{{cite news | url = https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/22/politics/boston-marathon-supreme-court-death-penalty/index.html | title = Supreme Court agrees to review Boston Marathon bomber's death penalty case | first = Arinna | last = de Vogue |date = March 22, 2021 | access-date = March 22, 2021 | work = CNN}} On March 4, 2022, the Supreme Court reversed the decision of the First Circuit and reinstated Tsarnaev's death penalty.{{cite web | url = https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/04/politics/tsarnaev-supreme-court/index.html | title=Supreme Court upholds death sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev| first=Ariane | last = de Vogue| date=March 4, 2022 | access-date=March 4, 2022| work=CNN}}

According to FBI interrogators, Dzhokhar and his brother were motivated by extremist beliefs but "were not connected to any known terrorist groups", instead learning to build explosive weapons from an online magazine published by al-Qaeda affiliates in Yemen. They further alleged that "Dzhokhar and his brother considered suicide attacks and striking the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular on the Fourth of July";{{cite news|title=Boston Plotters Said to Initially Target July 4 for Attack|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/03/us/Boston-bombing-suspects-planned-july-fourth-attack.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 2, 2013 |access-date= April 11, 2015|first1=Eric|last1=Schmitt|first2=Mark|last2=Mazzetti|first3=Michael S.|last3=Schmidt|first4=Scott|last4=Shane}} but ultimately decided to use remotely-activated pressure cooker bombs and other IEDs. Fox News reported that the brothers "chose the prestigious race as a 'target of opportunity' ... [after] the building of the bombs came together more quickly than expected".{{cite web|date=May 2, 2013|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/boston-marathon-was-target-of-opportunity-bombs-built-in-attackers-home-sources-say/|title=Boston Marathon was 'target of opportunity,' bombs built in attacker's home, sources say|work=Fox News Channel|access-date=May 19, 2013}}{{cite web|last=Douglas|first=Scott|date=May 3, 2013|url=http://www.runnersworld.com/races/marathon-was-target-of-opportunity-bombing-suspect-says|title=Marathon was 'Target of Opportunity,' Bombing Suspect Says|work=RunnersWorld.com|access-date=May 19, 2013}}

Dzhokhar said that he and his brother wanted to defend Islam from the U.S., accusing the U.S. of conducting the Iraq War and War in Afghanistan against Muslims. A CBS report revealed that Dzhokhar had scrawled a note with a marker on the interior wall of the boat where he was hiding; the note stated that the bombings were "retribution for U.S. military action in Afghanistan and Iraq", and called the Boston victims "collateral damage", "in the same way innocent victims have been collateral damage in U.S. wars around the world". Photographs of the note were later used in the trial.{{cite news|work=CBS Local Boston|url=http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/03/10/jury-in-boston-bombing-trial-sees-photos-of-writing-in-boat/|access-date=March 12, 2017|title=Boston Marathon Bombing Trial Jury Sees Photos Of Tsarnaev Boat Note|date=March 10, 2015}}{{cite news|title=Note by Boston Bombing Suspect Sheds Light on Motive, Officials Say|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/us/boston-bombing-developments.html|newspaper=The New York Times | first1=Scott|last1=Shane|first2=Ellen|last2=Barry|date=May 16, 2013 |access-date= April 11, 2015}}

Some political science and public policy writers theorize that the primary motives might have been sympathy towards the political aspirations in the Caucasus region and Tamerlan's inability to become fully integrated into American society.{{cite news |title= Islam might have had secondary role in Boston attacks |first= Lisa |last= Wangsness |author2= Brian Ballou |url= https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/19/scholars-caution-against-drawing-easy-religious-conclusions-about-suspects-boston-marathon-bombings/a5Iucv4ntQHgSvXchQqKOM/story.html |newspaper= The Boston Globe |date= April 20, 2013 |access-date= April 26, 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190216055617/https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2013/04/19/scholars-caution-against-drawing-easy-religious-conclusions-about-suspects-boston-marathon-bombings/a5Iucv4ntQHgSvXchQqKOM/story.html |archive-date= February 16, 2019 |url-status= dead |df= mdy-all}} According to the Los Angeles Times, a law enforcement official said that Dzhokhar "did not seem as bothered about America's role in the Muslim world" as his brother Tamerlan had been. Dzhokhar identified Tamerlan as the "driving force" behind the bombing, and said that his brother had only recently recruited him to help.

Some journalists and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's defense attorney have suggested that the FBI may have recruited or attempted to recruit Tamerlan Tsarnaev as an informant.{{cite magazine| url=http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2017/04/09/tamerlan-tsarnaev-fbi-informant/| author=Michele McPhee| title=Tamerlan Tsarnaev: Terrorist. Murderer. Federal Informant?| magazine=Boston Magazine| date=April 9, 2017}}{{cite web| url=https://whowhatwhy.org/2015/04/09/was-tamerlan-tsarnaev-an-fbi-informant-odds-say-its-possible/| author=Lara Turner| title=Was Tamerlan Tsarnaev an FBI Informant? Odds Say it's Possible| publisher=Who.What.Why| date=April 9, 2015}}{{cite news| url=http://www.wbur.org/news/2014/03/28/tamerlan-tsarnaev-fbi-informant| author=Rachel Paiste| title=Tamerlan Tsarnaev Was Approached To Be An Informant, Defense Says| publisher=WBUR News| date=March 28, 2014}}{{cite news| url=http://www.wbur.org/radioboston/2017/06/15/tsarnaev-mcphee-fbi| author=Jamie Bologna and Meghna Chakrabarti| title=Unanswered Questions About Tamerlan Tsarnaev| publisher=WBUR| date=June 15, 2017}}

=== Backgrounds ===

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{{See also|Tamerlan Tsarnaev#Personal background|Dzhokhar Tsarnaev#Personal background}}

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was born in 1986 in the Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, North Caucasus. Dzhokhar was born in 1993 in Kyrgyzstan, although some reports say that his family claims that he was born in Dagestan. The family spent time in Tokmok, Kyrgyzstan, and in Makhachkala, Dagestan.

They are half Chechen through their father Anzor, and half Avar through their mother Zubeidat. They never lived in Chechnya, yet the brothers identified themselves as Chechen.

The Tsarnaev family immigrated to the United States in 2002 where they applied for political asylum, settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Tamerlan Tsarnaev attended Bunker Hill Community College but dropped out to become a boxer. His goal was to gain a place on the U.S. Olympic boxing team, saying that, "unless his native Chechnya becomes independent", he would "rather compete for the United States than for Russia". He married U.S. citizen Katherine Russell on July 15, 2010, in the Masjid Al Quran Mosque. While initially quoted in a student magazine as saying, "I don't have a single American friend. I don't understand them," a later FBI interview report documents Tamerlan stating it was a misquote, and that most of his friends were American.{{Cite news|url=https://vault.fbi.gov/tamerlan-tsarnaev|title=Tamerlan Tsarnaev|work=FBI|access-date=October 12, 2017}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/11/us/tamerlan-tsarnaev-fbi-boston-marathon-interview/index.html|title=Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev told FBI he never picked a fight|first=Eric |last=Levenson|work=CNN|access-date=October 12, 2017}} He had a history of violence, including an arrest in July 2009 for assaulting his girlfriend.

The brothers were Muslim; Tamerlan's aunt stated that he had recently become a devout Muslim. Tamerlan became more devout and religious after 2009, and a YouTube channel in his name was linked to Salafist and Islamist videos. The FBI was informed by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in 2011 that he was a "follower of radical Islam". In response, the FBI interviewed Tamerlan and his family and searched databases, but they did not find any evidence of "terrorism activity, domestic or foreign". During the 2012 trip to Dagestan, Tamerlan was reportedly a frequent visitor at a mosque on Kotrova Street in Makhachkala, believed by the FSB to be linked with radical Islam. Some believe that "they were motivated by their faith, apparently an anti-American, radical version of Islam" acquired in the U.S., while others believe that the turn happened in Dagestan.

At the time of the bombing, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth with a major in marine biology. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen on September 11, 2012. Tamerlan's boxing coach reported to NBC that the young brother was greatly affected by Tamerlan and admired him.

Tamerlan was previously connected to the triple homicide in Waltham, Massachusetts, on the evening of September 11, 2011, but he was not a suspect at the time.{{cite news|url=https://boston.com/metrodesk/2013/04/22/police-probe-possible-link-between-marathon-bomber-and-unsolved-triple-homicide-waltham/T6MgaX0lur7plZrGj0HsvO/story.html|first=Michael|last=Rezendes|title=Police probe possible link between Marathon bomber and unsolved triple homicide in Waltham|work=The Boston Globe|date=April 22, 2013|access-date=April 23, 2013|archive-date=April 22, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130422230931/http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/04/22/police-probe-possible-link-between-marathon-bomber-and-unsolved-triple-homicide-waltham/T6MgaX0lur7plZrGj0HsvO/story.html|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/boston-bombing-brings-twist-cold-murder-case/story?id=19063282&page=2 |title=Boston Bombing Brings Twist to Cold Murder Case |work=ABC News |date=April 29, 2013 |access-date=May 6, 2013}} Brendan Mess, Erik Weissman, and Raphael Teken were murdered in Mess's apartment. All had their throats slit from ear to ear with such great force that they were nearly decapitated. The local district attorney said that it appeared that the killer and the victims knew each other, and that the murders were not random.{{cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2011/09/14/they-all-dead-waltham-killings-likely-not-random/Jmz6xjUgA7wqt1TZIak33J/story.html|title='They're all dead': Waltham killings likely not random – Metro – The Boston Globe|work=BostonGlobe.com|access-date=April 8, 2015}} Tamerlan Tsarnaev had previously described murder victim Brendan Mess as his "best friend". After the bombing and subsequent revelations of Tsarnaev's personal life, the Waltham murders case was reexamined in April 2013 with Tsarnaev as a new suspect. Both ABC and The New York Times have reported that there is strong evidence which implicates Tsarnaev in this triple homicide.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/11/us/boston-bombing-suspect-is-said-to-be-linked-to-2011-triple-murder-case.html|title=In 2011 Murder Inquiry, Hints of Missed Chance to Avert Boston Bombing|date=July 11, 2013|work=The New York Times}}{{cite magazine |url=http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/130396/boston-bomber-suspected-in-triple-homicide |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130423013635/http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/130396/boston-bomber-suspected-in-triple-homicide |archive-date=2013-04-23 |first=Adam|last=Chandler|title=Boston Bomber Suspected in Triple Homicide|magazine=Tablet|date=April 22, 2013|access-date=April 23, 2013}}

Some analysts claim that the Tsarnaevs' mother Zubeidat Tsarnaeva is a radical extremist and supporter of jihad who influenced her sons' behavior. This prompted the Russian government to warn the U.S. government on two occasions about the family's behavior. Both Tamerlan and his mother were placed on a terrorism watch list about 18 months before the bombing took place.

On April 15, several people who were near the scene of the blast were taken into custody and questioned about the bombing, including a Saudi man whom police stopped as he was walking away from the explosion; they detained him when some of his responses made them uncomfortable. Law enforcement searched his residence in a Boston suburb, and the man was found to have no connection to the attack. An unnamed U.S. official said, "he was just at the wrong place at the wrong time".

On the night of April 18, two men who were riding in a taxi in the vicinity of the shootout were arrested and released shortly after that when police determined that they were not involved in the Marathon attacks. Another man was arrested several blocks from the site of the shootout and was forced to strip naked by police who feared that he might have concealed explosives. He was released that evening after a brief investigation determined that he was an innocent bystander.

Robel Phillipos, 19, was a U.S. citizen of Ethiopian descent living in Cambridge who was arrested and faced with charges of knowingly making false statements to police.{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/01/boston-marathon-bombings-tsarnaev-phillipos/2127469/|title=Bomb suspect's friend Robel Phillipos: Who is he?|last=Winter|first=Michael|date=May 1, 2013|work=USA Today | access-date=January 2, 2015}} He graduated from high school in 2011 with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Dias Kadyrbayev, 19, and Azamat Tazhayakov, 20, were natives of Kazakhstan living in the U.S. They were Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's roommates in an off-campus housing complex in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where Tsarnaev had sometimes stayed.

Phillipos, Kadyrbayev, Tazhayakov, and Tsarnaev entered the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in the fall of 2011 and knew each other well. After seeing photos of Tsarnaev on television, they traveled to his dorm room, where Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov retrieved a backpack and laptop belonging to Tsarnaev while Phillipos acted as a lookout. The backpack was discarded, but police recovered it and its contents in a nearby New Bedford landfill on April 26. During interviews, the men initially denied visiting the dorm room but later admitted their actions.

Police arrested Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov at the off-campus housing complex during the night of April 18–19. An unidentified girlfriend of one of the men was also arrested, but all three were soon released.

Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov were re-arrested in New Bedford on April 20 and held on immigration-related violations. They appeared before a federal immigration judge on May 1 and were charged with overstaying their student visas. That same day, they were charged criminally with:

{{Blockquote |willfully conspir(ing) with each other to commit an offense against the United States... by knowingly destroying, concealing, and covering up objects belonging to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, namely, a backpack containing fireworks and a laptop computer, with the intent to impede, obstruct, and influence the criminal investigation of the Marathon bombing.}}

Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov were indicted by a federal grand jury on August 8, 2013, on charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice for helping Dzhokhar Tsarnaev dispose of a laptop computer, fireworks, and a backpack after the bombing. Each faced up to 25 years in prison and deportation if convicted.{{cite news|title=2 friends of Boston bombing suspect indicted|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/08/boston-marathon-bomber-friends-charged/2632191/|newspaper=USA Today|access-date=August 9, 2013|date=August 8, 2013}} Tazhayakov was convicted of obstruction of justice and conspiracy on July 21, 2014.{{cite web|url=http://news.msn.com/crime-justice/marathon-suspects-friend-guilty-of-impeding-probe|title=News|work=msn.com|access-date=April 8, 2015}}{{Dead link|date=November 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}

Kadyrbayev pleaded guilty to obstruction charges on August 22, 2014,{{cite magazine|title=Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's College Friend Pleads Guilty|url=http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/blog/2014/08/22/dias-kadyrbayev-dzhokhar-tsarnaevs-friend-pleads-guilty/|magazine=Boston Magazine|access-date=April 8, 2015|date=August 22, 2014}} but sentencing was delayed pending the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Yates v. United States.{{cite news|title=Tsarnaev friends' sentencing delayed|url=http://www.wcvb.com/news/tsarnaev-friends-sentencing-delayed/29595756|publisher=WCBV 5 (ABC)|access-date=April 8, 2015|date=November 7, 2014}} Kadyrbayev was sentenced to six years in prison in June 2015.{{cite web|first1=Shannon|last1=McMahon|first2=Hilary|last2=Sargent|url=https://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2015/06/05/tsarnaev-friend-tazhayakov-sentenced-months-for-obstruction-justice/ZMJOlcDZZr0qRHqi251RYK/story.html|title=Tsarnaev friend Tazhayakov sentenced to 42 months for obstruction of justice|work=The Boston Globe|date=June 5, 2015}} He was deported to Kazakhstan in October 2018.{{Cite magazine|url=https://time.com/5443092/dias-muratovich-kadyrbayev-deported-boston-bombings/|title=Friend Who Helped Boston Bomber Dispose of Evidence Deported to Kazakhstan|magazine=Time|access-date=September 12, 2019}}

Tazhayakov pleaded not guilty and went to trial, arguing that "Kadyrbayev was the mastermind behind destroying the evidence and that Tazhayakov only 'attempted obstruction'." Jurors returned a guilty verdict, however, and he was sentenced to 42 months ({{frac|3|1|2}} years) in prison in June 2015. U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock gave a lighter sentence to Tazhayakov than to Kadyrbayev, who was viewed as more culpable. Tazhayakov was released in May 2016 and subsequently deported.{{cite web|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/05/16/tsarnaev-friend-released-from-prison/1WbAvRNlmSjPdhjDTUBc9K/story.html|title=Tsarnaev friend to be released from prison|last=Valencia|first=Milton|date=May 17, 2016|work=The Boston Globe|access-date=July 12, 2017}}

Phillipos was arrested and faced charges of knowingly making false statements to police. He was released on $100,000 bail (${{Inflation|US|100,000|2013|fmt=c}} in {{Inflation/year|US}} dollars) and placed under house confinement with an ankle monitor. He was convicted on October 28, 2014, on two charges of lying about being in Tsarnaev's dorm room. He later acknowledged that he was in the room while two friends removed a backpack containing potential evidence relating to the bombing.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/29/us/robel-phillipos-friend-of-boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-is-found-guilty.html | title=Robel Phillipos, Friend of Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect, Is Found Guilty | work=The New York Times | date=October 29, 2014 | access-date=October 28, 2014 | agency=Associated Press}}

Phillipos faced a maximum sentence of eight years' imprisonment on each count.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/29/us/robel-phillipos-friend-of-boston-marathon-bombing-suspect-is-found-guilty.html|title=Boston Bombings Suspect's Friend Convicted of Lying to F.B.I.|last=Williams|first=Timothy|date=October 28, 2014|work=The New York Times|access-date=January 2, 2015}} In June 2015, U.S. District Judge Douglas P. Woodlock sentenced him to three years in prison.{{cite web|first1=Patricia|last1=Wen|first2=Milton J.|last2=Valencia|first3=John R.|last3=Ellement|first4=Martin|last4=Finucane|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/06/05/third-tsarnaev-friend-sentenced-three-years/uX4aySZJrLpBZIBXo9142M/story.html|title=Robel Phillipos sentenced to three years in prison|work=The Boston Globe|date=June 5, 2015}} Phillipos filed an appeal, but his sentence was upheld in court on February 28, 2017.{{cite web|url=http://www.necn.com/news/new-england/Marathon-Bombers-Friend-Robel-Phillipos-Files-Appeal-307148741.html|title=Marathon Bomber's Friend Robel Phillipos Files Appeal|work=NECN|date=June 12, 2015}}

Phillipos was released from prison in Philadelphia on February 26, 2018, and began serving a three-year probationary period.{{cite news |author=Staff Writer |url=http://6abc.com/pal-of-boston-marathon-bomber-released-from-philly-re-entry-management-program/3143119/ |title=Pal of Boston Marathon bomber released from Philly re-entry management program |work=WPVI-TV | publisher=Associated Press | date=February 26, 2018 |access-date=April 15, 2018}}

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On May 22, the FBI interrogated Ibragim Todashev in Orlando, Florida, who was a Chechen from Boston. The New York Times quoted an unnamed law enforcement official as saying that Todashev had confessed to a triple homicide, and had implicated Tsarnaev as well.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/us/officer-involved-in-shooting-of-man-tied-to-tsarnaev.html|title=Deadly End to FBI Queries on Tsarnaev and a Triple Killing|work=The New York Times|last1=Schmidt|first1=Michael S.|last2=Rashbaum|first2=William K.|last3=Oppel|first3=Richard A. Jr.|date=May 22, 2013|access-date=May 22, 2013}} During the interrogation, he was shot and killed by an FBI agent who claimed that Todashev attacked him.{{cite web|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/05/2013522143644212765.html |title=Man 'linked to Boston suspect' killed by FBI |publisher=Al Jazeera |date=October 4, 2011 |access-date=May 25, 2013}} Todashev's father claimed his son was innocent and that federal investigators were biased against Chechens and made up their case against him.{{cite web|url=http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/23/18451049-father-of-slain-man-linked-to-boston-bombing-suspect-maintains-sons-innocence?lite=|title=Father of slain man linked to Boston bombing suspect maintains son's innocence|author=U.S. News|date=April 8, 2015|work=NBC News|access-date=April 8, 2015}}

{{See also|Carmen Ortiz#Boston Marathon bombings}}

Matanov was originally from Kyrgyzstan. He came to the U.S. in 2010 on a student visa, and later claimed asylum. He attended Quincy College for two years before dropping out to become a taxicab driver. He was living in Quincy, Massachusetts, at the time of his arrest, and was a friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

A federal indictment was unsealed against Khairullozhon Matanov on May 30, 2014, charging him with "one count of destroying, altering, and falsifying records, documents, and tangible objects in a federal investigation, specifically information on his computer, and three counts of making materially false, fictitious, and fraudulent statements in a federal terrorism investigation". Matanov bought dinner for the two Tsarnaev brothers 40 minutes after the bombing. After the Tsarnaev brothers' photos were released to the public, Matanov viewed the photos on the CNN and FBI websites before attempting to reach Dzhokhar and then tried to give away his cell phone and delete hundreds of documents from his computer. Prosecutors said that Matanov attempted to mislead investigators about the nature of his relationship with the brothers and to conceal that he shared their philosophy of violence.{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/30/justice/boston-marathon-bombings-charges/|title=Massachusetts man charged with obstructing Boston bombings probe|first1=Jason|last1=Hanna|first2=Mariano|last2=Castillo|date=May 30, 2014|work=CNN|access-date=April 8, 2015}}{{cite news|first=Laura|last=Ly|url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/18/us/tsarnaev-friend-sentence/|title=Friend of Boston marathon bombers gets 30-month sentence|work=CNN|date=June 18, 2015}}

In March 2015, Matanov pleaded guilty to all four counts.{{cite news|first=Susan|last=Zalkiind|url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/26/the-fbi-is-trying-to-destroy-my-life.html|title=The FBI Is Trying to Destroy My Life|work=The Daily Beast|date=March 26, 2015}} In June 2015, he was sentenced to 30 months in prison.

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Three people were killed as a direct result of the bombings. Krystle Marie Campbell, a 29-year-old restaurant manager from Medford, Massachusetts, was killed by the first bomb. Lü Lingzi ({{lang-zh|吕令子|links=no}}), a 23-year-old Chinese national and Boston University graduate student from Shenyang, Liaoning,{{Cite web |title=Lu Lingzi Scholarship {{!}} Office of the Provost |url=https://www.bu.edu/provost/awards-publications/award-opportunities/lu-lingzi-scholarship/ |access-date=2024-04-08 |website=www.bu.edu}} and 8-year-old Martin William Richard from the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, were both killed by the second bomb.

Sean Allen Collier, 27 years old, was shot and killed by the bombers as he sat in his patrol car on April 18, at about 10:25{{nbsp}}p.m. He was an MIT police officer, and had been with the Somerville Auxiliary Police Department from 2006 to 2009.{{cite news| url=http://www.masslive.com/news/boston/index.ssf/2013/08/slain_police_officer_sean_coll.html| location=Somerville | work=MassLive | title=Slain police officer Sean Collier, killed following Boston Marathon explosions, posthumously appointed to Somerville Police Department | first=Shina | last=Schoenberg | date=August 22, 2013 |access-date= April 11, 2015}}{{Cite web |title=Patrol Officer Sean Allen Collier |url=https://www.odmp.org/officer/21777-patrol-officer-sean-allen-collier |access-date=2022-03-03 |website=The Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP)}} He died from multiple gunshot wounds.

Boston Police Department officer Dennis Simmonds died on April 10, 2014, from head injuries he received during the Watertown shootout a year before.{{cite news |url = https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/05/28/line-duty-death-benefits-given-family-boston-police-officer-wounded-tsarnaev-shootout/cr0zpUGx4KaKVkTRmqhH0J/story.html | title = Death benefit given to family of officer wounded in Tsarnaev shootout | first = Jan | last = Ransom | date = May 28, 2015 | access-date = May 28, 2015 | newspaper = The Boston Globe}}

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About 281 civilians were treated at 27 local hospitals. Eleven days later, 29 remained hospitalized, one in critical condition. Many victims had lower leg injuries and shrapnel wounds,{{cite journal|title=Imaging of Blast Injuries to the Lower Extremities Sustained in the Boston Marathon Bombing |vauthors=Guermazi A, Hayashi D, Smith SE, Palmer W, Katz JN |journal=Arthritis Care & Research |volume=65 |issue=12 |pages=1293–98 |year=2013 |doi=10.1002/acr.22113 |pmid=24039123|doi-access=free|issn = 2151-464X}} which indicated that the devices were low to the ground. At least 16 civilians lost limbs, at the scene or by surgical amputation, and three lost more than one limb.

Doctors described removing "ball-bearing type" metallic beads a little larger than BBs and small carpenter-type nails about {{convert|0.5|to|1|in|cm|sigfig=1|sp=us}} long. Similar objects were found at the scene. The New York Times cited doctors as saying that the bombs mainly injured legs, ankles, and feet because they were low to the ground, instead of fatally injuring abdomens, chests, shoulders, and heads. Some victims had perforated eardrums.

MBTA police officer Richard H. Donohue Jr. (33) was critically wounded during a firefight with the bombers just after midnight on April 19. He lost almost all of his blood, and his heart stopped for 45 minutes, during which time he was kept alive by cardiopulmonary resuscitation.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}} The Boston Globe reported that Donohue may have been accidentally shot by a fellow officer.

Marc Fucarile lost his right leg and received severe burns and shrapnel wounds. He was the last victim released from hospital care on July 24, 2013.{{cite news |title=Last Hospitalized Marathon Victim Heads Home |url=https://news.yahoo.com/last-hospitalized-marathon-victim-heads-home-154013732.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130727010200/https://news.yahoo.com/last-hospitalized-marathon-victim-heads-home-154013732.html |archive-date=July 27, 2013 |agency=Associated Press=}}

Law enforcement, local and national politicians, and various heads of state reacted quickly to the bombing, generally condemning the act and expressing sympathies for the victims. Spontaneous, improvised temporary memorials appeared at the sites of the deaths in Boston and Cambridge. Over the next few years, permanent memorials were constructed and dedicated at these locations.

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The One Fund Boston was established by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Boston mayor Thomas Menino to make monetary distributions to bombing victims. The Boston Strong concert at the TD Garden in Boston on May 30, 2013, benefitted the One Fund, which ultimately received more than $69.8 million in donations.{{cite web|title=$212K donation made to One Fund Boston|url=http://www.necn.com/09/12/13/212K-donation-made-to-One-Fund-Boston/landing.html?blockID=852181|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130913143800/http://www.necn.com/09/12/13/212K-donation-made-to-One-Fund-Boston/landing.html?blockID=852181|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 13, 2013|publisher=NECN.com}} A week after the bombing, crowdfunding websitesSuch as GoFundMe, GiveForward, FundRazr, YouCaring, and Fundly received more than 23,000 pledges promising more than $2 million for the victims, their families, and others affected by the bombing. The Israel Trauma Coalition for Response and Preparedness sent six psychologists and specialists from Israel to help Boston emergency responders, government administrators, and community people develop post-terrorist attack recovery strategies.

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Numerous sporting events, concerts, and other public entertainment were postponed or canceled in the days following the bombing. The MBTA public transit system was under heavy National Guard and police presence and it was shut down a second time April 19 during the manhunt.

In the days after the bombing, makeshift memorials began to spring up along the cordoned-off area surrounding Boylston Street. The largest was located on Arlington Street, the easternmost edge of the barricades, starting with flowers, tokens, and T-shirts.{{cite AV media|url=http://imgur.com/4JRa9gt | title=Photograph Taken From the Arlington Shrine on April 16, 2013|access-date = April 10, 2015}}{{cite news| url=http://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/ci_23040059/grit-and-grief-at-makeshift-boston-marathon-memorial | work=Sentinel & Enterprise | title=Grit and grief at makeshift Boston Marathon memorial | date= April 16, 2013 |access-date= April 11, 2015}}{{cite news| url=http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2013/04/17/update-downtown-boston | work=WBUR | title=An Update From Downtown Boston | date= April 17, 2013 |access-date= April 11, 2015}}{{cite news| url=http://www.wbur.org/2013/04/17/photos-boylston-st-after-the-blasts | work=WBUR | title=Photos: Boylston Street After The Blasts | date= April 17, 2013 |access-date= April 11, 2015}}{{cite news | url=http://photos.masslive.com/republican/2013/04/boston_15jpg.html | work=Mass Live | title=People gather at makeshift memorial near scene of Boston Marathon bombing | date=April 18, 2013 | access-date=April 11, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402113819/http://photos.masslive.com/republican/2013/04/boston_15jpg.html | archive-date=April 2, 2015 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all}} In June, the Makeshift Memorial located in Copley Square was taken down and the memorial objects located there were moved to the archives in West Roxbury for cleaning, fumigation, and archiving.{{cite news| url=https://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2013/06/21/makeshift-memorial-marathon-bombing-victims-taken-down-moved-city-archives/7DZAxM2iDyAnDgxvjLukiN/story.html | work=Boston.com | title=Makeshift memorial to Marathon bombing victims to be taken down, moved to city archives | date=June 21, 2013 |access-date= April 11, 2015}}

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Five years after the bombing, The Boston Globe reported all of the items from the memorials were being housed in a climate controlled environment, free of charge, by the storage company, Iron Mountain in Northborough, Massachusetts. Some of the items are also being stored in Boston's city archives in West Roxbury.{{cite news |last=Ramos |first=Nestor |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/04/14/fragments-tragedy-and-our-best-selves/gtnbkn7MiT91kYzFL1MBOL/story.html |title=Fragments of tragedy, and of our best selves |work=The Boston Globe | date=April 14, 2018 |access-date=April 15, 2018}}

Boston University established a scholarship in honor of Lü Lingzi, a student who died in the bombing. University of Massachusetts Boston did the same in honor of alumna and bombing victim Krystle Campbell.{{cite web|url=https://www.umb.edu/the_university/chancellor/communications/krystle_campbell_scholarships_awarded_to_umass_students|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510170308/https://www.umb.edu/the_university/chancellor/communications/krystle_campbell_scholarships_awarded_to_umass_students|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 10, 2017|title=Krystle Campbell Scholarships Awarded to UMass Students – University of Massachusetts Boston}}

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology established a scholarship, and erected a large abstract environmental sculpture outdoors called the Sean Collier Memorial, both in memory of slain MIT Police officer Sean Collier. The open-arched monolithic stone enclosure was proposed, designed, funded, fabricated, and installed on campus in less than two years after the bombing, and formally unveiled on April 29, 2015.{{cite web|last1=Humphries|first1=Courtney|title=The Making of MIT's Collier Memorial|url=http://www.architectmagazine.com/design/buildings/the-making-of-mits-collier-memorial_o|website=Architect: the journal of the American Institute of Architects|publisher=Hanley Wood Media|access-date=2015-07-08|date=May 22, 2015}}{{cite web |title=Sean Collier Memorial |url=https://listart.mit.edu/public-art-map/sean-collier-memorial |website=MIT List Visual Arts Center |publisher=Massachusetts Institute of Technology |access-date=2019-10-11 |date=22 August 2017 |archive-date=April 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419162100/https://listart.mit.edu/public-art-map/sean-collier-memorial |url-status=dead}}

One study conducted by the Institute for Public Service at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts, recorded the mental health and emotional response of various survivors, for three years following the bombing. In doing so, it reviewed the kinds of aid that were available in local hospitals and offered advice on how a person or community may be healed.The mental health response to the Boston bombing: A three-year review This study also mentions that after recognizing the downgraded media coverage of people in the city being killed or injured on a daily basis, the city of Boston "applied for and received a grant from The Rockefeller Foundation to be part of their 100 resilient cities network and to develop a cross cutting resilience strategy".{{cite news |title=100 Resilient Cities {{!}} Boston.gov |url=https://www.boston.gov/departments/resilience-and-racial-equity/100-resilient-cities |access-date=15 March 2023 |work=Boston Government Service Center |date=2020-07-30}}

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However, there was rising anti-Muslim sentiment online and locally in the weeks following the bombing, causing distress in the local Muslim community and making some afraid to leave their homes.{{cite journal|last1=Bhattacharyya|first1=Sriya|last2=Ashby|first2=Kimberly M.|last3=Goodman|first3=Lisa A.|title=Social Justice Beyond the Classroom|journal=The Counseling Psychologist|date=September 26, 2014|volume=42|issue=8|pages=1136–1158|doi=10.1177/0011000014551420|s2cid=145601632}}

Three stone pillars lit by abstract sculptural bronze lighting columns memorializing three victims were installed at the two separate bombing sites on August 19, 2019. Two bronze sidewalk bricks were installed to memorialize police officers killed in the aftermath, and cherry trees were planted nearby to bloom each April.

The Catholic bishops of Massachusetts opposed the death penalty for terrorist bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, citing the need to build a culture of life.{{cite news | url = https://bostonglobe.newspapers.com/image/444570704/?terms=%22culture%2Bof%2Blife%22 | title = Religious leaders conflicted on death penalty | first1 = Jan | last1 = Ransom | first2 = Jacqueline | last2 = Tempera | newspaper = Boston Globe | date = May 18, 2015 | access-date = October 5, 2018}}

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President Barack Obama addressed the nation after the attack. He said that the perpetrators were still unknown, but that the government would "get to the bottom of this" and that those responsible "will feel the full weight of justice". He ordered flags to half-staff until April 20 on all federal buildings as "a mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence perpetrated on April 15, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts".

Moments of silence were held at various events across the country, including at the openings of the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and NYMEX on the day after the bombing. Numerous special events were held, including marathons and other runs.{{cite web|url=http://archive.freep.com/article/20130421/NEWS06/304210177/lansing-marathon-boston-bombing|title=Lansing Marathon runners hit the street to salute Boston|work=Detroit Free Press|access-date=April 8, 2015}}{{cite web|url=http://www.onerunforboston.org|title=One Run For Boston 2|work=One Run for Boston|access-date=April 8, 2015}} Islamic organizations in the United States condemned the attacks.{{cite book|title=Muslims in America: Examining the Facts|author=Craig Considine (academic)|publisher=ABC-CLIO|date=2018-07-11|page=188}}

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The bombing was denounced and condolences were offered by many international leaders as well as leading figures from international sport. Security measures were increased worldwide in the wake of the attack.

In China, users posted condolence messages on Weibo in response to the death of Lü Lingzi.{{Cite web|first=Kevin|last=Tang|date=April 17, 2013|title=After Massive Online Search For Lu Lingzi, Chinese Netizens Express Grief|url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kevintang/after-massive-online-search-for-lu-lingzi-chinese-netizens-e|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210615024039/https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kevintang/after-massive-online-search-for-lu-lingzi-chinese-netizens-e|archive-date=June 15, 2021|website=BuzzFeed News}} Chris Buckley of The New York Times said "Ms. Lu's death gave a melancholy face to the attraction that America and its colleges exert over many young Chinese." Laurie Burkitt of The Wall Street Journal said "Ms. Lu's death resonates with many in China" due to the one-child policy.

Organizers of the London Marathon, which was held six days after the Boston bombing, reviewed security arrangements for their event. Hundreds of extra police officers were drafted in to provide a greater presence on the streets, and a record 700,000 spectators lined the streets. Runners in London observed a 30-second silence in respect for the victims of Boston shortly before the race began, and many runners wore black ribbons on their vests. Organizers also pledged to donate US$3 to a fund for Boston Marathon victims for every person who finished the race.

Organizers of the 2013 Vancouver Sun Run, which was held on April 21, 2013, donated $10 from every late entry for the race to help victims of the bombing at the Boston Marathon. Jamie Pitblado, vice-president of promotions for The Vancouver Sun and The Province, said the money would go to One Fund Boston, an official charity that collected donations for the victims and their families. Sun Run organizers raised anywhere from $25,000 to $40,000. There were over 48,000 participants, many dressed in blue and yellow (Boston colors) with others wearing Boston Red Sox caps.

Petr Gandalovic, ambassador of the Czech Republic, released a statement after noticing much confusion on Facebook and Twitter between his nation and the Chechen Republic. "The Czech Republic and Chechnya are two very different entities – the Czech Republic is a Central European country; Chechnya is a part of the Russian Federation."

Security was also stepped up in Singapore in response to online threats made on attacking several locations in the city-state and the Singapore Marathon in December. Two suspects were investigated and one was eventually arrested for making false bomb threats.{{cite web |url= http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/international/singapore-hit-by-bomb-hoaxes-after-boston-attacks/ |title= Singapore Hit By Bomb Hoaxes After Boston Attacks |access-date= April 11, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140305220307/http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/international/singapore-hit-by-bomb-hoaxes-after-boston-attacks/ |archive-date= March 5, 2014 |url-status= dead}}

File:Copley-sq-memorial-visit 5540515857 o.jpg Prime Minister David Cameron (left) joins Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick in paying respects at Copley Square on May 14]]

David Cameron (prime minister of the United Kingdom) posted on Twitter, "The scenes from Boston are shocking and horrific - my thoughts are with all those who have been affected."{{cite web |last1=Rebecca |first1=Ruehlman |title=Our Marathon |url=https://marathon.library.northeastern.edu/item/neu:m042rp075/ |website=marathon.library.northeastern.edu/ |publisher=Northeastern University |access-date=15 April 2024 |date=2013}} On May 14, he visited Boston as part of a three-day visit to the United States. In Boston, he met with Governor Patrick at the Massachusetts State House, offering condolences and holding a discussion with Patrick about what lessons governments could learn from the bombings. Afterwards, he and Patrick visited the temporary memorials at Copley Square, where Cameron remarked to reporters, "Everyone in the UK stands with [Boston] and [its] great people."{{cite web |title=David Cameron Visits Boston |url=https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2013-05-14/david-cameron-visits-boston |website=WGBH |publisher=The Associated Press |access-date=15 April 2024 |date=14 May 2013}}{{cite web |last1=Osborn |first1=Andrew |title=Britain's PM Cameron visits Boston bombing site, pays tribute |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE94D0RB/ |website=Reuters |access-date=15 April 2024 |date=May 14, 2013}}

The Russian government said that special attention would be paid to security at upcoming international sports events in Russia, including the 2014 Winter Olympics. According to the Russian embassy in the U.S., President Vladimir Putin condemned the bombing as a "barbaric crime" and "stressed that the Russian Federation will be ready, if necessary, to assist in the U.S. authorities' investigation". He urged closer cooperation of security services with Western partners but other Russian authorities and mass media blamed the U.S. authorities for negligence as they warned the U.S. of the Tsarnaevs.{{cite web|url=http://www.rg.ru/2013/04/26/mnenie-site.html |script-title = ru:Россия могла предотвратить теракт в Бостоне |trans-title=Russia could have prevented a terrorist attack in Boston|author=Shestakov, Yevgeny|work=Rossiyskaya Gazeta|date=April 26, 2013|access-date= April 11, 2015|language=ru}} Moreover Russian authorities and mass media since the spring of 2014 blame the United States for politically motivated false information about the lack of response from Russian authorities after subsequent U.S. requests.{{citation needed|date=February 2017}} As proof a letter from the Russian FSB was shown to the members of an official U.S. Congressional delegation to Moscow during their visit. This letter with information about Tsarnaev (including his biography details, connections and phone number) had been sent from the FSB to the FBI and CIA during March 2011.{{cite web|url=http://ria.ru/boston_terror/20140410/1003329322.html |script-title = ru:Эксперт: обвинения США по делу Царнаева политически мотивированы|trans-title=Expert: U.S. blame around Tsarnaev case are politically motivated|author=Korotchenko, Igor|work=RIA Novosti |date=April 10, 2014|access-date= April 11, 2015|language=ru}}

Republican U.S. Senators Saxby Chambliss and Richard Burr reported that Russian authorities had separately asked both the FBI (at least twice: during March and November 2011) and the CIA (September 2011) to look carefully into Tamerlan Tsarnaev and provide more information about him back to Russia.{{cite web|url= https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/04/23/russia-contacted-fbi-multiple-times-concerns-about-alleged-boston-marathon-bomber/ND0bhUdq1Tp1mRuC8xlb8N/story.html|title= Russia contacted US government 'multiple' times|author1= Bender, Bryan|author2= Bierman, Noah|work= The Boston Globe|date= April 23, 2013|access-date= March 27, 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170613234646/http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/04/23/russia-contacted-fbi-multiple-times-concerns-about-alleged-boston-marathon-bomber/ND0bhUdq1Tp1mRuC8xlb8N/story.html|archive-date= June 13, 2017|url-status= dead}} FSB secretly recorded phone conversations between Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his mother (they vaguely and indirectly discussed jihad) and sent these to the FBI as evidence of possible extremist links within the family.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}} However, while Russia offered US intelligence services warnings that Tsarnaev planned to link up with extremist groups abroad, an FBI investigation yielded no evidence to support those claims at the time. In addition, subsequent U.S. requests for additional information about Tsarnaev went unanswered by the Russians.{{cite news|last=Radia|first=Kirit|title=Lawmakers Traveling to Russia to Investigate Boston Bombing|url=https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/05/lawmakers-traveling-to-russia-to-investigate-boston-bombing/|newspaper=ABC News|date=May 21, 2013 |access-date= April 11, 2015}}{{Failed verification|date=April 2023|reason=No mention in reference of unanswered requests.}}

On April 19, 2013, the press secretary of the head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, issued a statement that, inter alia, read: "The Boston bombing suspects have nothing to do with Chechnya". On the same day, Kadyrov was reported by The Guardian to have written on Instagram:

{{blockquote|Any attempt to make a link between Chechnya and the Tsarnaevs, if they are guilty, is in vain. They grew up in the U.S., their views and beliefs were formed there. The roots of evil must be searched for in America. The whole world must battle with terrorism. We know this better than anyone. We wish recover {{sic}} to all the victims and share Americans' feeling of sorrow.}}

Akhmed Zakayev, head of the secular wing of the Chechen separatist movement, now in exile in London, condemned the bombing as "terrorist" and expressed condolences to the families of the victims. Zakayev denied that the bombers were in any way representative of the Chechen people, saying that "the Chechen people never had and can not have any hostile feelings toward the United States and its citizens".

The Mujahideen of the Caucasus Emirate Province of Dagestan, the Caucasian Islamist organization in both Chechnya and Dagestan, denied any link to the bombing or the Tsarnaev brothers and stated that it was at war with Russia, not the United States. It also said that it had sworn off violence against civilians since 2012.

During the manhunt for the perpetrators of the bombing, Governor Deval Patrick said "we are asking people to shelter in place". The request was highly effective; most people stayed home, causing Boston, Watertown, and Cambridge to come to a virtual standstill. According to Time magazine, "media described residents complying with a 'lockdown order,' but in reality the governor's security measure was a request". Scott Silliman, emeritus director of the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security at Duke Law School, said that the shelter-in-place request was voluntary.{{cite magazine|first=Nate|last=Rawlings|url=https://nation.time.com/2013/04/19/was-boston-actually-on-lockdown/|title=Was Boston Actually on Lockdown?|magazine=Time|date=April 19, 2013}}

The National Lawyers Guild and some news outlets questioned the constitutionality of the door-to-door searches conducted by law enforcement officers looking for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.{{cite news| url=http://archive.boston.com/yourtown/news/watertown/2013/11/lawyers_to_speak_about_unconstitutional_watertown_home_searc.html| author=Jaclyn Reiss| title=Lawyers raising questions about Watertown home searches following Marathon bombings, shootout| newspaper=Boston Globe| date=November 14, 2013}}{{cite news| url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/watertown-door-door-search-bombing-suspects-violation-fourth-140043137.html?ref=gs| author=Liz Klimas| title=Was Watertown's Door-to-Door Search for Bombing Suspects a Violation of the Fourth Amendment?| work=Yahoo News| date=April 23, 2013}}{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/04/22/the-police-response-to-the-boston-marathon-bombing/| author=Radley Balko| title=Was the police response to the Boston bombing really appropriate?| newspaper=The Washington Post| date=April 22, 2014}}

On the second anniversary of the Boston Marathon Bombings, Mayor Marty Walsh established April 15, the day of the bombings, as an official and permanent holiday called "One Boston Day", dedicated to conducting random acts of kindness and helping others out.{{cite news| url=https://onebostonday.org| title=One Boston Day| publisher=One Boston Day| date=April 15, 2015}} Over the past eight years, some examples of acts of kindness being done have been donating blood to the American Red Cross, donating food to the Greater Boston Food Bank, opening free admission in places like the Museum of Science and Museum of Fine Arts, donating shoes to homeless shelters, and donating to military and veteran charities.{{cite news| url=https://www.boston.com/culture/events/2016/04/14/11-ways-to-participate-in-one-boston-day-on-friday| author=Kristin Toussaint| title=11 ways to participate in One Boston Day| publisher=Boston Globe Media Partners| date=April 14, 2016}}{{cite magazine| url=https://www.bostonmagazine.com/health/2018/04/13/guide-one-boston-day-2018/| author=Tessa Yannone| title=Your Guide to One Boston Day 2018| magazine=Boston Magazine| date=April 13, 2018}}

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A number of conspiracy theories arose in the immediate wake of the attacks and after more information about the Tsarnaev brothers came to light.{{Cite journal|last=Michael|first=George|date=2014-03-22|title=Conspiracy in Boston: disentangling Boston Marathon bombing conspiracy theories|url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&sw=w&issn=10639330&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA372691228&sid=googleScholar&linkaccess=abs|journal=Skeptic (Altadena, CA)|volume=19|issue=2|pages=16–28}} This can be common in the aftermath of acts of domestic terrorism, especially the September 11 attacks.{{Cite news|last=Graff|first=Garrett M.|date=2020-09-10|title=9/11 and the Rise of the New Conspiracy Theorists|work=The Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/9-11-and-the-rise-of-the-new-conspiracy-theorists-11599768458|access-date=2021-04-26|issn=0099-9660}}

Stella Tremblay, then a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives from Auburn, New Hampshire, claimed the Boston Marathon bombing was a government conspiracy and that victims who lost their legs were faking their injuries because they were not "screaming in agony." Under pressure afterwards she resigned. The New Hampshire House then unanimously passed a resolution to show support for the victims and to disavow unfounded speculation or accusations.{{cite news| publisher=huffingtonpost.com| date=June 21, 2013| title=Stella Tremblay Resigns From New Hampshire Legislature| author=John Celock| url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/20/stella-tremblay-resigns_n_3473583.html}}{{cite news| publisher = cbsnews.com| date = June 20, 2013| title = NH Lawmaker Resigns After Saying Government Behind Boston Bombings| url =https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/nh-lawmaker-resigns-after-saying-government-behind-boston-bombings}}

In the days following the attacks, some conspiracy theories arose on the internet claiming they were false flag attacks committed by the United States government.{{Cite news|date=2017-05-17|title=How a University of Washington researcher discovered an "information war"|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-39930236|access-date=2021-04-26}} As more information about the backgrounds of the Tsarnaev brothers came to light, further conspiracy theories were disseminated. One claim, made by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's defense attorney as well as some journalists, was that the FBI had tried to recruit Tamerlan Tsarnaev as an FBI informant in 2011. The FBI denied this claim in a press release, stating that "the Tsarnaev brothers were never sources for the FBI nor did the FBI attempt to recruit them as sources".{{Cite web|title=Joint Release from Massachusetts Law Enforcement Agencies|url=https://www.fbi.gov/boston/press-releases/2013/joint-release-from-massachusetts-law-enforcement-agencies|access-date=2021-04-26|website=FBI}} The FBI is not required to release information on informants, and classified information on sources of intelligence constitutes an exception to the 25-year declassification window established by Executive Order 13526.{{Cite web|date=2016-08-15|title=The President Executive Order 13526|url=https://www.archives.gov/isoo/policy-documents/cnsi-eo.html|access-date=2021-04-26|website=National Archives}}

In 2011, a triple murder took place in Waltham, Massachusetts, in which a friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev was one of the victims.{{Cite web|date=2018-04-13|title=Is the Waltham Triple Murder Investigation At A Dead End?|url=https://www.wgbh.org/news/2018/04/12/news/waltham-triple-murder-investigation-dead-end|access-date=2021-04-26|website=News}}{{Cite news |title=Police probe possible link between Marathon bomber and unsolved triple homicide in Waltham |url=https://www.boston.com/uncategorized/noprimarytagmatch/2013/04/22/police-probe-possible-link-between-marathon-bomber-and-unsolved-triple-homicide-in-waltham-2|access-date=2021-04-26|work=The Boston Globe}}{{Cite web|title=Boston Bombing Brings Twist to Cold Murder Case|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/boston-bombing-brings-twist-cold-murder-case/story?id=19063282|access-date=2021-04-26|website=ABC News}} After the 2013 attacks, the investigation was reopened with Tamerlan Tsarnaev as a new suspect.{{Cite web|date=2013-04-22|title=Boston Bomber Suspected of Killing Three Men, Two of Whom Were Jewish|url=https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/boston-bomber-suspected-in-triple-homicide|access-date=2021-04-26|website=Tablet Magazine}} The failure of the 2011 investigation to identify Tamerlan Tsarnaev as a major suspect led to claims among conspiracy theorists that the investigation of the 2011 triple murder had been suppressed by the FBI in order to maintain Tsarnaev's informant status. Theorists also cite the fact that the FBI has been criticized for an alleged practice under former director James Comey of encouraging confidential informants to attempt terrorist attacks.{{Cite web|last1=Aaronson|date=March 16, 2015|first1=Trevor|title=How the FBI Created a Terrorist|url=https://theintercept.com/2015/03/16/howthefbicreatedaterrorist/|access-date=2021-04-26|website=The Intercept}}{{Cite journal|last=Kamali|first=Sara|date=2017-02-28|title=Informants, Provocateurs, and Entrapment: Examining the Histories of the FBI's PATCON and the NYPD's Muslim Surveillance Program|url=https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/informants|journal=Surveillance & Society|volume=15|issue=1|pages=68–78|doi=10.24908/ss.v15i1.5254|issn=1477-7487|doi-access=free}} This alleged practice, combined with disputed claims of connections between the Tsarnaev brothers and intelligence services,{{Cite news|date=2021-03-09|title=Former CIA officer: 'Absurd' to link uncle of Boston suspects, Agency |work=Al-Monitor |url=http://backchannel.al-monitor.com/index.php/2013/04/5090/former-cia-officer-absurd-to-link-uncle-of-boston-suspects-agency-over-daughters-brief-marriage/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210309205011/http://backchannel.al-monitor.com/index.php/2013/04/5090/former-cia-officer-absurd-to-link-uncle-of-boston-suspects-agency-over-daughters-brief-marriage/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2021-03-09|access-date=2021-04-26}} have given rise to a conspiracy theory that the United States government had foreknowledge of the Tsarnaev brothers' plans to commit a terrorist attack, or that the attack was made at the direction of intelligence services. The Tsarnaev brother's uncle, Said-Hussein Tsarnaev, and other members of the Tsarnaev family have repeated this theory, as well as claiming neither brother actually committed the attacks.{{Cite magazine|title=Exclusive: Relatives of Boston Marathon Bomber Break Their Silence|url=https://time.com/3824265/boston-marathon-bombing-dzhokhar-tsarnaev-family/|access-date=2021-04-26|magazine=Time}} This claim also formed an element of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's legal defense.{{Cite web|title=Tsarnaev denied extremism to FBI two years before Marathon bombing|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tsarnaev-denied-extremism-fbi-said-mystery-men-came-see-him-n744881|access-date=2021-04-26|website=NBC News|date=April 10, 2017}} No evidence or further claims supporting this theory have been confirmed by any US government agencies.

On the afternoon of the bombing, the New York Post reported that a suspect, a Saudi Arabian male, was under guard and being questioned at a Boston hospital. That evening, Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis said that there had not been an arrest. The Post did not retract its story about the suspect, leading to widespread reports by CBS News, CNN, and other media that a Middle Eastern suspect was in custody. The day after the bombing, a majority of outlets were reporting that the Saudi was a witness, not a suspect.

The New York Post on its April 18 front page showed two men, and said they were being sought by the authorities. The two men in question, a 17-year-old boy and his track coach, were not the ones being sought as suspects. The boy, from Revere, Massachusetts, turned himself over to the police immediately and was cleared after a 20-minute interview in which they advised him to deactivate his Facebook account. New York Post editor Col Allan stated, "We stand by our story. The image was emailed to law enforcement agencies yesterday afternoon seeking information about these men, as our story reported. We did not identify them as suspects." The two were implied to be possible suspects via crowdsourcing on the websites Reddit and 4chan.

Several other people were mistakenly identified as suspects. Two of those wrongly identified as suspects on Reddit were the 17-year-old track star noted above and Sunil Tripathi, a Brown University student missing since March. Tripathi was found dead on April 23 in the Providence River.

Muslims around the world took to social media to malign Tripathi and all Hindu-Americans in general, by flooding the internet with racist and Hinduphobic claims of "Brahmin & Hindu terrorism" in America, with some calling him a communist for wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt.{{cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/us-canada-news/boston-bombing-how-an-indian-american-family-was-dragged-through-hell-by-reckless-cyberjunkies/articleshow/19637392.cms |url-status=live |access-date=March 25, 2025 |archive-date=Apr 20, 2013 |publisher=The Times of India |author=Rajghatta, Chidanand |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130420212235/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/us-canada-news/boston-bombing-how-an-indian-american-family-was-dragged-through-hell-by-reckless-cyberjunkies/articleshow/19637392.cms |language=en-IN |date=April 19, 2013 |title=Boston bombing: How an Indian-American family was dragged through hell by reckless cyberjunkies |quote=To some who were possibly relieved that the alleged suspect wasn’t a homegrown white supremacist type, a photo of Tripathi wearing a Che Guevera T-shirt was sufficient to show that he was a "left-wing, Marxist communist". To others who were worried that the Boston bombing would be tied to Islamist extremism, he was a "Hindu brahmin." One cyberwarrior tweeting under the handle @DrAQ_Khan gloated: "The alleged suspect for Boston bombings was a Hindu Sunil Tripathi. We urge Western media to now showcase all Hindus as Terrorists." For many Indian-Americans, suffused with pride about the community’s high standing in the US, the fast-spreading news came as a shock. }}{{cite news |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/mistaken-identity-sparks-social-media-rumours-of-indian-link-in-boston-bombing/articleshow/19641838.cms?from=mdr |date=Apr 20, 2013 |url-status=live |title=Mistaken identity sparks social media rumours of Indian link in Boston bombing |language=en-IN |quote=For hours, millions of Internet users believed Tripathi was one of the perpetrators of the marathon blasts and was currently involved in a shootout with the Boston Police. During this time, all manner of prejudices and stereotypes, not to mention ignorance, had a free run. Instant punditry on the interwebs saw a Facebook picture of Tripathi in a red Che Guevara t-shirt and immediately dubbed him a "left-wing Marxist of Indian Brahmin descent".
Among Indian Twitter users, the news raised the spectre of Hindu terror. A New Delhi-based user tweeted: "Hindu terrorism makes way to internationally."
"The alleged suspect for Boston bombings was a Hindu Sunil Tripathi. We urge Western media to now showcase all Hindus as terrorists," an account that claims to represent the social media campaign cell of discredited Pakistani nuclear scientist AQ Khan tweeted.
Feverish speculation about the identity of Tripathi's father, suggestions that his brother might be involved, and much maligning of Indian students in the US all continued unabated for hours as law enforcement agencies took down one suspect and continued to fight another. By the time the Boston Police denied Tripathi was a suspect and released the names of two Chechnyan brothers instead, Tripathi's name was everywhere. Reluctant apologies followed. |publisher=The Economic Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108171737/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/mistaken-identity-sparks-social-media-rumours-of-indian-link-in-boston-bombing/articleshow/19641838.cms?from=mdr |archive-date=January 8, 2021 |access-date=March 25, 2025 }} Dr. AQ Khan, a Pakistani nuclear scientist, demanded western media to portray "all Hindus as terrorists". Another Muslim user based in New Delhi, claimed Hindu terrorism was "international".

On April 17, the FBI released the following statement:

{{Blockquote|Contrary to widespread reporting, no arrest has been made in connection with the Boston Marathon attack. Over the past day and a half, there have been a number of press reports based on information from unofficial sources that has been inaccurate. Since these stories often have unintended consequences, we ask the media, particularly at this early stage of the investigation, to exercise caution and attempt to verify information through appropriate official channels before reporting.}}

The decision to release the photos of the Tsarnaev brothers was made in part to limit damage done to those misidentified on the Internet and by the media, and to address concerns over maintaining control of the manhunt.

• 2011 Waltham triple murder, a triple homicide to which Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been connected
• Centennial Olympic Park bombing, a 1996 terrorist attack which also targeted a public event
• List of Islamist terrorist attacks

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{{cite news|title=Injured Saudi man not a suspect in Boston attacks|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57579893/sources-injured-saudi-man-not-a-suspect-in-boston-attacks|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130418074129/http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57579893/sources-injured-saudi-man-not-a-suspect-in-boston-attacks/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 18, 2013|last=Sison|first=Bree|work=CBS News|access-date=April 17, 2013}}

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{{cite news|title=Ethiopia's Kebede wins London Marathon|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/sport/athletics/2013/04/201342111463715901.html|access-date=April 21, 2013|agency=Agence France-Presse|publisher=Al Jazeera|date=April 21, 2013}}

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{{cite magazine|last=Davidson|first=Amy|url=https://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/04/the-saudi-marathon-man.html|title=The Saudi Marathon Man|magazine=The New Yorker|date=April 17, 2013|access-date=April 22, 2013}}

{{cite news|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/hs-track-star-speaks-didn-article-1.1320766|title=Boston Marathon spectator Salah Barhoum, who was interviewed by authorities following the bombings, swears he 'didn't do it' |work=Daily News|date=January 11, 2013|access-date=April 20, 2013 |last1=Morales|first1=Mark|first2=Bev|last2=Ford|location=New York}}

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{{cite web|last=Briggs|first=Bill|title=Missing Brown University student's family dragged into virally fueled false accusation in Boston|url=http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/19/17826915-missing-brown-university-students-family-dragged-into-virally-fueled-false-accusation-in-boston|work=NBC|access-date=April 23, 2013}}

{{cite news|title=Missing Brown University student found dead in Providence River, authorities confirm|author=Chuck, Elizabeth|date=April 25, 2013|url=http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/25/17913288-missing-brown-university-student-found-dead-in-providence-river-authorities-confirm?lite|work=NBC News|access-date=April 25, 2013}}

{{cite news|title=FBI Shreds The Media Over Unverified Boston Marathon Reports|last=LoGiurato|first=Brett|date=April 17, 2013 |access-date=April 22, 2013|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/boston-marathon-arrest-bombing-reports-fbi-2013-4|work=Business Insider}}

{{cite news|title=FBI urges media to 'exercise caution' after inaccurate arrest reports|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/apr/17/fbi-media-exercise-caution-bombings|last=Williams|first=Matt|date=April 17, 2013|access-date=April 22, 2013|work=The Guardian | location=London}}

{{cite news|last1=Sherman|first1=Pat|title=UCSD professor says Boston Marathon was 'lone wolf' terrorism|url=http://www.lajollalight.com/2013/04/21/ucsd-professor-says-boston-marathon-was-lone-wolf-terrorism/|access-date=June 17, 2014|work=La Jolla Light|date=April 21, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140307085243/http://www.lajollalight.com/2013/04/21/ucsd-professor-says-boston-marathon-was-lone-wolf-terrorism/|archive-date=March 7, 2014}}

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• {{cite journal |url=https://www.fbi.gov/news/updates-on-investigation-into-multiple-explosions-in-boston |title=Updates on Investigation into Multiple Explosions in Boston|website=FBI.gov |publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation|author=FBI|date=October 21, 2013}}
• {{citation|first=Leti|last=Volpp|title=The Boston Bombers|journal=Fordham Law Review|via=Berkeley Law Scholarship Repository|volume=82|year=2014|url=http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3277&context=facpubs}}
• {{Cite episode|title=Top Secret America|series=Frontline|series-link=Frontline (American TV program)|network=PBS|station=WGBH|date=April 30, 2013|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/topsecretamerica/|access-date=April 8, 2025}}

Congressional hearings

• {{cite conference|url=https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo47878|title=Lessons Learned from the Boston Marathon Bombings: Preparing for and Responding to the Attack|conference=Hearing Before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate|institution=One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, First Session|date=July 10, 2013|id=S. Hrg. 113–226}}
• {{cite conference|url=https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo52496|title=The Boston Marathon Bombings, One Year On: A Look Back to Look Forward|conference=Hearing Before the Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives|institution =One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, Second Session|date=April 9, 2014|id=Serial No. 113–64}}
• {{cite conference|url=https://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo53215|title=Lessons Learned from the Boston Marathon Bombings: Improving Intelligence and Information Sharing|conference=Hearing Before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate|institution=One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, Second Session|date=April 30, 2014|id=S. Hrg. 113–444}}

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