Hey y’all I finally got some sleep and woke up to this. Can y’all keep me updated while I try to get everyone’s posts from the last 10 hours or so moderated?
This is what CNN is reporting now:
Boston (CNN) — The suspects involved in the Boston Marathon bombings were brothers from the Russian Caucasus who’d lived in the United States for several years, though one noted on a social media website that he didn’t “have a single American friend.”
The elder brother, identified by several sources as Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, studied engineering at Bunker Hill Community College but had taken off a year to train as a boxer.
A posting on a social media website under his name included the comment: “I don’t have a single American friend. I don’t understand them.”
He died at a hospital overnight after a gun battle with police, authorities said. A source briefed on the investigation said Tsarnaev was wearing explosives and an explosive trigger when his body was recovered.
My thoughts are with all of you in Boston.
This guy that died could not have been the guy they stripped on the street last night and I presumed arrested. I thought they dsid it eas the same person last night. I need to get up to date.
The guy that was forced to strip was a mistaken identity and he was released. The two brothers robbed a 7-11 store and then killed a MIT security guard carjacked a guy but finally released him unharmed. The two were then in a gunfight with police and one of the brothers, suspect #1 ended up dead but the Dr. hat the hospital said he and shrapnal and burn wounds on his body leading police to suspect he may have killed himself using a bomb which is why they locked down the city. The brother suspect #2 fled and the police think he is in the city of Watertown, Mass area. Film at 11.
Thank you Michael. Since I have been able to watch, they never backtracked on these facts. I appreciate this.
Thanks Michael! : )
Everything around here is shutdown, businesses are closed. The younger brother is on the run, but BPD has essentially closed down the city and surrounding areas, any public transportation, and surrounded a household in the manhunt. He escaped by running over his older brother, who died last night in the hospital.
Thanks, JBoston, stay safe! 🙂
I wrote a post about last night if you’re interested, given how many crazy stories are going around now.
Alice L, where can I find your post please?
http://languidcuriosity.wordpress.com/2013/04/19/play-by-play-what-happened-in-boston-last-night/
Thanks, Alice L. I’m following your blog now, also. My husband & , of course kids, are Asian American. Thanks for the play by play. : )
Thanks so much! I’m glad the post is helping people understand what happened last night.
Thank you Alice! It’s a great blog!
Alice L. Wow, this was almost like being there. Thank you for the info.
From what I understand the police are essentially telling all residents to stay away from their windows and hunker down. They are going house by house searching. It’s also been confirmed that somebody has released a photo of the bomber who passed away. It’s pretty graphic and official have confirmed it is really him and looking into who leaked it
The brothers uncle gave a press conference, he claims not to have seen them since 2006 I think. They also interviewed an aunt who lives in Toronto, Canada…she seems a little “out there” to me. She was going on and on about looking stuff up on youtube, as if she was trying to justify why they may find Al Queida (SP?) things on her computer. She also was rambling on about being set up her whole life and that her nephews might have been set up…she was quite hard to understand and was speaking really loudly. But she just sounded off to me.
It seems like the FBI feels there may be people hiding or protecting them because they’re looking closely into the alive brother’s circle of friends. A man is now talking to Anderson about conflicting reports, first a Mercedes was the car being looked for then it was a Honda. Also, talk of controlled explosions.
I want more of the Aunt. She was explaining youtube saying that when you watch something like The Secret (I swear she said that!) then afterward weird shit just pops up. She said shit like four times on CNN but her accent is so heavy it took them a while to realize she was cursing and cut away. She also kept telling the reporters that they clearly do not listen as she has already said that or they did not quote her properly. She also said, “If you guys were lawyers like me you would know how to listen and speak…” or something like that. She’s fascinating!
I agree — there is something really strange about the aunt and the father in the suspicious way they have responded to the crimes of their family. They claim that the boys have been framed? But the boys were caught red-handed and they even told the man whose SUV they hijacked that they were the bombers.
I am laughing so hard over the Aunt but don’t mean too, hysterical interview. I think she said that she is/was a lawyer. I would like to see her giving analysis or a judge on Idol!
She was saying she’s been set up her whole life, that she was a good student and a hard worker but she always gets set up. She thinks her nephews were set up also. She seems really eager to explain away why they may find stuff on her computer. She said she called the FBI but nobody seemed interested in what she had to say. And she was also rambling on about Russian women leaving their husband’s when they come to America and that kids stop listening to their parents when they come here. Again, she was very hard to understand but that’s what it sounded like to me.
Maybe this is bad, but hearing the aunt and the father’s responses made me wonder if this family has some mental health issues. Paranoia? She’s asking for more proof, but her nephews were caught red-handed, trying to shoot police and bomb civilians. What more proof do you need?
Thanks so much for the update, Tamara, it’s much appreciated! I haven’t seen or read any newscasts. : )
I don’t get the 7-11 robbery. I guess hoping for money to escape with?
Money to get away. Apparently they didn’t have an end game – I bet they never thought they would be caught this quickly. Amazing how they pulled this together from pictures and video tape.
That’s a good reason. I,too, had been wondering about the 7-Eleven. It’s not even a store that would be loaded. I think a flaw in their “plan” was to act immediately following the bombing — clearly Boston police and FBI were on high alert.
I do not normally subscribe to Judicial Watch, never heard of it before. I saw a retweet of an article of theirs saying the oldest brother was convicted of battering his wife and could have been Deported. This site appears to be very anti Obama, may be why it exists, but I did become better informed on Chechnien sp, sorry, and Islamist connection that may play into this crime. I admit I am not very political or astute about some political unrest.
When I think about Russia and former Soviet states, I don’t think Islamic people.
Lets not start blaming entire countries or religions for a couple of idiots behavior. I believe both of these guys were US citizens btw.
Anderson said the younger brother was naturalized but the older brother was not.
I was seeking information about the possible background of this family that is referred to on every tv channel repeatedly. Thanks for remimding me you are so easily touched off. I will go away.
The dad is saying someone framed them and “cowards” shot his son to death.
complete insanity here! Everyone is listening to police scanners-so much so that I think the PD have started using their cell phones. I have friends in Watertown right in the area the shootout occurred and my brother and his gf are currently holed up in her Cambridge apartment, 3 blocks from the suspect’s apartment. Very surreal.
Is there trial today for Jodi?
No trial today or Monday. A status Conference with attorneys was held at 10:00 AM My thoughts go out to all in your community. how weird to be told “shelter in place” when it isn’t a storm.
This reminds of the movie Seige with Denzel Washington and Bruce Willis where the army took over New York City. Does anyone know if they declared Marshall Law in Boston? That’s the only way I think they could get around entering homes without search warrants.
Not to make light of anything but I know you guys will understand. God bless my husband, he texted me this morning to say school was shut down so he wasn’t going to Boston (he is a PH”d candidate at Northeastern) I texted back still half asleep is it because if the MIT shooting last night? To which he texted back ?????
So i went downstairs and he told me that he called security at school to see if it was a general shut down and if he could still come in. God bless him, honey turn on the TV! The person politely told him that no it was in complete lock down mode and the entire city and surrounding suburbs are lock down as is all public transit. So no you cannot come to school.
Here I am engrossed in a criminal trail going on in AZ, obsessed with the FBI hunt for the bombers and here he is completely clueless. Opposites so attract!
lol sounds like me and my hubs. I was up all night, watching the news, listening to the police scanner and surfing the net on my laptop. The hubs was snoring beside me. Of course he wants a complete run down of everything from ME instead of watching the damn television. Meanwhile I have answered the same 4 questions from my (senile) mom, every 10 minutes or so, since she got up. What a day!
I’m wondering when this kid is going to need to sleep! I’m exhausted and I’m not running from every member of law enforcement in the state!
Here are the juror question for DeMarte via Croakerqueen…
thank you so much TT!
First let me say I’m always happy to hear someone is safe.
Second the fact that you and your husband are texting each other while in the same house is a big part of what is wrong with society. Next time get off your asses and talk face to face. You never know when you could be having your last conversation.
Michelle, let me say this as nice as I can STFU, you do not know why we were texting, but since you would rather cast sweeping generalizations I will do the same, people judging others is also a big part of what is wrong with our society. So thanks for also being part of the problem.
For anyone else wondering, we were texting since I had a sleeping 3 year old snuggled up and that will win every time.
Sounds like someone (Michelle) needs a timeout…or a Vicodin
Actually, in case you guys missed it, Michelle was at the marathon and witnessed the bombing. http://s17948.p858.sites.pressdns.com/2013/04/15/bombing-at-boston-marathon/ She’s had a very difficult week. We’ve been talking off the board and she is finally feeling a sense of relief that the bombers were captured. She hasn’t been sleeping and seems rather traumatized, as one might expect. I am trying to encourage her to seek some support. So perhaps we could give her a break or two.
TT, all the more reason she should not be so quick to throw shade. Everyone deals with tradegy differently, my DH was in Boston not far from the bombs, we have a friend still in the hospital who has had 2 surgeries and still doesnt know if her foot will be saved. And just found out that I know the older terrorists wife’s parents who live here in RI.
We use laughter to get us through the tougher times, hence why I thought my clueless husband calling school was funny. I love him but he is so not aware if news stories that he tends to do goofy things, like thinking he could go to school during all this.
I am sorry that Michelle is having a tough time, I do hope she gets help to get her through this, but still does not give someone a free pass to be judgemental and imply another poster sending an text from upstairs yo her dh downstairs is part if the reason horrible things like this happens, yeah I couldn’t let that go without responding.
I think you know I go out of my way to avoid conflict, I think those of us up here are on edge and maybe our posts are showing that.
It seemed clear to me that you were on edge as well.
If you think your response was appropriate under the circumstances… then by all means. Scream STFU at someone who has just witnessed the unthinkable for offending you during her trauma.
Nope, I completely admit my stfu was a full on Brandi over reaction moment and you are welcome to take it down.
I have to find humor to keep me sane knowing that DH was willingly going into Boston everyday and is less than 10 minutes walking distance from the site and add to the fact that all day is spent in the chemistry building, which seems like such a good target to me, without humor I would be as crazy as some of the housewives!
But my friend keeps sending me these amazing video clips on FB of Boston Commons right now and man it makes me want to be there!
LOL michelle, I text my husband all the time. I am on the second floor and he is usually in his mancave in the basement. Yes I am too lazy to get up and go talk to him, but he’s also a lot more responsive in text because he can “hear” me. For some reason, dear old hubby doesn’t believe me that he’s mostly deaf. Oh well. We do still talk to each other tho…we even still sleep together.
I hope you will discuss your feelings about Monday with your doctor. It was a horrific sight and it’s understandable to maybe need some help dealing with what you saw.
This is the twitter account of one of the bombers who tweeted after the bombings. He even points out one of the many fake stories tweeted about the bombing. https://twitter.com/J_tsar
he now has over 50,000 followers!!!!
I was up all night with this story, but I didn’t hear about the FBI having the brother under survelliance. If that is true then this story is more complex than usual. They would have had to have known that they where up to or could have been up to.
Mom is saying this is a setup that FBI has had the oldest son under surveillance they would have known if they were going to do something like this. The mother said that if they were going to do something like this, she would know.
Not, my son is a good boy who would never do this…
I can’t imagine finding out it’s your son that has murdered and maimed innocent people, so I guess I can give her a pass but seriously? Her older boy threw a pressure cooker bomb at the police during the gunfight-seems pretty cut and dried to me. Have you seen the gruesome, graphic pic of him dead in the ER? Looks like he had a suicide vest on that he detonated.
Not only her son BOTH of her sons. She has just lost both of them, it’s hard to imagine. have to remember they come from a whole different part of the world, maybe you never conquer your origins. you bring those experiences with you where ever you go. So sad..
I knew I wasn’t the only curious person who saw this today. Ive needed a palette cleanser, so i gave been been looking at puppies for awhile! I pray they find the other brother alive to bring him to justice on American soil.
I forced myself to stare at that disgusting picture…I just don’t understand WHY a person wants to choose a death like that for himself? What is the purpose of killing and maiming innocent people, then blowing yourself up without making sure we know why? Pointless and stupid. But, it was his choice for himself, so I’m happy he got what he wanted.
Having been in Boston when this all happened all I want to say is there is absolutely nothing funny about any of what is going on. I have seen the interview with the father and the aunt. While a slight piece of my cold heart feels for them, I can not listen to these completely bias people telling the world that these boys were set up. If these boys are so innocent then why did they engage in a gun fight and throw explosives at the cops? Why did they tell the man they carjacked that they were the bombers from the Marathon? How was the injured runner who lost his legs able to identify him as the man who dropped the backpack?
Now with all that said, I want to know why someone who was here on a green card, and was arrested for Domestic Abuse was not deported? Better yet if the FBI was worried enough to question one of the brothers years ago (fYI: that is where he was quoted as saying he has no American friends because he can’t relate to them and doesn’t understand them)because they were worried about his association with a certain group, why did they let him stay in this country?
I don’t have to tell you how many unanswered questions I had before they knew who dis this. But now I have twice as many and feel like I will never get any answers. This whole thing has me pissed, sad, and everyother emotion you can imagine.I would be lying if I said that a part of me truly wishes that this scumbag is trying to hide out in CT. and being that I live smack dab in the middle of NY and Mass. That I will get a chance to show this scumbag the butt end of my 22 up close!
Michelle, sounds like they got the second guy. I hope this gives you some peace. I hope you will take some time away from the news and try to find some peace and normalcy. Take care of yourself and keep letting us know how you are. I think there will be community resources for people who witnessed the horrors that you did. You should take advantage of them. ~tt
Watching the news…the profile of these guys, the one guy who said he doesn’t understand Americans… It just makes me sick. If you hate America, LEAVE. I don’t care if you are a citizen or not, I don’t care if you are Islamic or Catholic or Hindu or a Wiccan. If you hate a country so badly, just leave and open up a scholarship or a job for someone who wants to be here. Don’t kill innocent people and bring pain to your own family.
That statement was made years ago (awesome media reporting once again) he has since married (just found out I know the girls parents, not well but hi how are you in grocery store well) and has a three year old daughter, same age as mine.
Knowing this makes it even harder for me to figure out their actions. I just can’t even wrap my head around it.
What did she know?????
He obviously disliked the US or Boston to do such a despicable thing. Just goes to show that outward appearances are deceiving…