Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Police found an old ticket issued to a car registered to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for parking in the area where the shootout occured.
A parking ticket issued during a snow emergency provides more evidence that the Boston Marathon Bombing suspects had visited the neighborhood where they got into a shootout with Watertown Police, and where one met his end. The parking ticket was issued to a silver Honda registered to bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, according to a report by ABC News. It was issued on Feb. 18, 2011, for parking on Boyston Street during a snow emergency. The Tsarnaev brothers had a friend, Maximilian Freddura, who lived on Boylston Street, ABC News reports. Freddura's apartment is just a few blocks from the intersection of Laurel Street and Dexter Avenue where they got into a gun battle with police, threw bombs and where Tamerlan died. Another Freddura, …
Monday, May 20, 2013
MBTA Officer Richard Donahue was shot and lay wounded in the driveway of Reading Memorial High School teacher Dr. Jeffrey Ryan days after the Boston Marathon bombings.
Jeffrey Ryan lives at the corner of Laurel Street and Dexter Avenue in Watertown, a neighborhood that he considered safe until the early hours of April 19. That Thursday night, Ryan was enjoying school vacation and watching Django Unchained. He went to bed early after what he said was a normal day, only to be awakened a couple of hours later by the sound of gunshots. The Reading Memorial High School teacher had always believed that his neighborhood in East Watertown was "very safe" until the night of April 18. Before that night, the biggest problem he faced was intoxicated teenagers setting off fireworks. When he heard what he thought was gunshots, he hoped they were fireworks. He went downstairs to see what was going on and as he got …
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Residents of Watertown came together with a sense of pride and to heal after the town got a first hand look at terrorism.
If you were there, you know how it felt to be under siege during when the Boston Marathon Bombing suspects came to your backyard - and the experience only brought an already tight-knit community closer together. Watertown Strong T-shirts and stickers began popping up almost immediately, and people continue to wear the shirts with pride. Residents have rallied together like never before. Numerous efforts emerged to raise money for victims of the Boston Marathon Bombings, as well as those impacted in Watertown. One was spearheaded by the Watertown Police. Local businesses also organized events. And even individuals in town decided to do what they could for the victims. Walking around Watertown everyone gives you a smile and a "hello." Even …
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote a note on the boat in Watertown where police found him hiding.
Boston Marathon Bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left a goodbye note claiming that the bombings were retribution for the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and said he and his brother were martyrs. Tsarnaev scrawled the note on the inside of the boat where police found and arrested him, according to a report on CBS News Thursday morning. According the CBS report, the note stated: Bullets pierced the wall of the boat where the note was found. The shots were fired after a police officer covering the side of the boat spotted Tsarnaev come up out of the tarp and thought he had a bomb, according to the report. The note may help prosecutors' case against Tsarnaev. While he admitted to being behind the bombings, the statements were made before …
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Location where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found in a boat.
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Five of the officers who battled the Tsarnaev brothers shared their stories.
Officer Joseph Reynolds saw them first, and he barely had time to turn his cruiser around before the battle began with the Boston Marathon Bombing suspects. Reynolds and four of the Watertown Police officers who shot it out with Tamerlan and Dzhohkar Tsarnaev at the intersection of Laurel Street and Dexter Avenue shared their stories with MSNBC and WCVB-TV. Reynolds received a report to be on the lookout for a stolen, black Mercedes SUV. He had orders not to stop the vehicle, so he tried to approach without spooking the Tsarnaevs. “(Tsarnaev) stopped his vehicle, and I was about 10-15 yards away,” Reynolds said in an interview on MSNBC’s The Last Word on Tuesday. “And Tamerlan jumped out and he just started walking toward my cruiser and …
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Laurel St & Dexter Ave, Watertown, MA
Site of the first shootout with the Boston Marathon Bombing suspects.
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Monday, May 13, 2013
Tamerlan Tsarnaev used to visit East Watertown often to hang out with a friend who lives blocks from the spot where the bombing suspect got into a shootout with police.
The East Watertown neighborhood where Tamerlan Tsarnaev battled police - and where he died - was familiar ground for the Boston Marathon Bombing suspect. For a time, Tsarnaev visited the neighborhood on almost a daily basis to dance to hiphop music, smoke marijuana and pray at the house of a friend on Boylston Street, just blocks from where the bombing suspect was killed, according to a report in the Boston Globe. Watertown resident Sebastian A. Freddura knew Tsarnaev from Cambridge, and remembered him as a freewheeling Muslim who carried around a prayer rug in his car. “He’d wash his hands and lay it out in the backyard and pray for 20 minutes or a half-hour a handful of times a day,” Freddura told the Globe. “We’d smoke a jay and he’d …
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Scene of the gun battle between police and the Boston Marathon Bombing suspects.
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Brandon O'Neill will take on the grueling 72-hour race to raise money for Jane Richard.
As he faces yet another hill in his 200 mile race in the mountains of Vermont, Watertown Police Officer Brandon O'Neill said he will have a motivation - he is running the race for Boston Marathon Bombing victim Jane Richard. The three-year member of the Watertown Police Department will run as many of the 200 miles in the Peak Ultra Marathon in a 72 hour period - raising money to help Richard's recovery with every mile. Richard lost her leg in the Boston Marathon Bombing, and is starting her recovery. Her brother, Martin, was killed in the bombing and her mother was severely injured. "I hope to inspire her in some way," O'Neill said. "Inspire her to never give up, move forward and to live live to the fullest." O'Neill ran his first marathon…
Friday, May 10, 2013
Investigators are looking into the possible involvement of the accused Boston Marathon bombers in the 2011 triple homicide in Waltham.
Authorities have amassed evidence indicating accused Boston Marathon bombers Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his brother, Dzhokar, possibly killed three men in a Waltham home in 2011, according to ABC News. Investigators have "mounting evidence" including forensics pointing toward the Tsarnaev brothers', says ABC. Tamerlan was killed in an April 19 shootout with police in Watertown and Dzhorkar was later captured hiding in a boat in Watertown. After the April 15 bombings, federal and state authorities began investigating the brothers' possible link to the murders after learning Tamerlan was a close friend of one of the victims, Brendan Mess. Mess, along with his two friends, Erik Weissman and Raphael Teken, were found murdered in a Harding …
The remains of Tamerlan Tsarnaev have been buried in a Muslim cemetery in a small town.
The body of one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers have been buried in a Muslim cemetery in a small town in Virginia. The Boston Globe reported Friday that Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been buried in a cemetery in Doswell, Va., a small town about 15 miles from Richmond. The report cites two sources who have been "briefed on the situation" who said that the body was buried at Al-Barzakh Cemetery. What to do with the body of one of the two Boston Marathon Bombing suspects had become a controversy, as people protested outside a Worcester funeral home where the body was being kept. Officials had not been able to find a cemetery in Massachusetts that would accept the body. Tamerlan died on April 19 after a gun battle with police in Watertown, …
Thursday, May 9, 2013
The Boston Joint Terrorism Task Force, a unit made up of federal, state and local law enforcement state, had access to a file on Tamerlan Tsarnaev, according to the FBI.
Though Boston’s top police officials said he did not know about the now-deceased Boston Marathon bomber until the day he was killed, an FBI official said at least some Boston police officers had access to a file on him through a shared database. FBI special agent Richard Deslauriers said in a Thursday press statement members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, a federally-sponsored unit that included Boston police officials, assessed accused marathon bomber Tameraln Tsarnaev in 2011 via the Guardian database, an internal system shared by law enforcement at the federal, state and local levels. “Many state and local departments, including the [Boston Police Department], have representatives who are full-time members of the [Joint Terrorism …
Ellen
6:51 am on Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Patrick, I feel the same way, I keep thinking it's because I'm tuned in more, but the sirens are constant. more ›