This still frame from video shows Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev visible through an ambulance after he was captured in Watertown. Picture: AP Source: AP
ARMED guards are protecting the hospital where the wounded surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect is in a serious condition and unable to be questioned to determine the motives behind the worst terrorist attack in the US since September 11, 2001.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was being held under heavy guard at Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center, where victims were also being treated after two blasts tore through crowds at the finish line of Monday's race.
It is believed more than a dozen victims of the bombing are at the same hospital.
US officials said a special interrogation team for high-value suspects was waiting to question Tsarnaev, whose older brother and alleged accomplice was killed yesterday in a wild shootout in suburban Boston.
A neighbour has captured the frightening shootout that led to the arrest of the second Boston bombing suspect
The capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lifted days of anxiety for Boston and Americans everywhere. Monday afternoon's horrific twin backpack blasts during the marathon shocked the US.
Fox News reported that according to the Boston Globe the teenage suspect attended a party two nights after the deadly bombing.
The Associated Press identified the surviving bomb suspect as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, from Russia. Picture: VK.com
"He was just relaxed," said a student from Umass Dartmouth who saw Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, mingling with friends from intramural soccer.
Then, four days after the bombing, at 8.45pm on Friday evening, US time, the 19-year-old fugitive was cornered inside a boat in a backyard.
After a two-hour standoff, Dzhokhar was rendered helpless by bullets and stun grenades as police, who had shut down 20 blocks in the area, pinned him down.
Boston Marathon bomb suspect number two is in custody after law enforcement arrested him after a brief stand-off. Fox News
Dzhokhar's older brother, Tamerlan, aged 26, was shot dead by police earlier on Friday morning after the two brothers threw improvised explosive devices from a stolen car at pursuing officers.
The vehicle was bought to a temporary halt in Watertown, only about 10km west of downtown Boston, where the men allegedly set off Monday's bombs.
Dzhokhar was so desperate to escape he ran over his dying brother in the stolen car.
The suspect was holed up in this boat at 67 Franklin Street, Watertown. Picture: Fox News 25.
The photo identities of the two, who proclaimed themselves as Muslim ethnic Chechens from southern Russia, were first made public at 5pm on Thursday, when the FBI released a series of stills and moving images that showed them carrying backpacks through the marathon crowd.
After that, as the suspects names began to circulate, events moved rapidly as the pair became desperate.
Just after 10pm, on the same day, they allegedly attempted to rob a 7-Eleven store in Kendell Square, near the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Then came reports of shots being fired on the campus, which led 26-year-old MIT police office, Sean Collier, to investigate at around 10.20pm.
An aerial view of the boat in the backyard of the property at 67 Franklin Street, Watertown. Picture: Bing Maps
Officer Collier was gunned down inside his vehicle, dying of multiple wounds.
The brothers then allegedly carjacked a Mercedes SUV and kept the occupant hostage for several hours before ditching him unharmed.
As Bostonians were warned to stay inside their homes and answer the door to no person, it wasn't till the following morning when the brothers re-emerged in Watertown, and engaged police with homemade IEDS in the wild pursuit in which Tamerlan who in the FBI images was wearing the black cap was killed.
President Obama has praised the efforts of law enforcement after the arrest of suspect number two in the Boston bombing. Fox News
Dzhokhar, who ditched the stolen car, then moved on foot through Watertown, sparking terror in the suburbs as the police dragnet closed throughout the day.
By evening, residents reported hearing a series of explosions and gunshots. Shortly after 8.45pm, Watertown fell silent. An official tweeted these words to a reporter: "alive, conscious, captured", signalling the siege was at an end.
"We got him," tweeted Boston Mayor Thomas Menino.
A police officer reacts to news of the arrest of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects in Boston. Picture: AP
District Attorney statement: How today unfolded
Attempts to negotiate with him failed as he was ''not communicating,'' one official said.
A hostage negotiator was called in and shortly after the man was arrested. He was taken to Mount Auburn Hospital in Watertown by ambulance in a serious condition.
A gathering of people applaud as first responders leave the scene after the arrest. Picture: AP
He was later transferred to the Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston.
Hundreds of people later descended into the streets of Boston to celebrate, chanting: ''USA! USA!''
Dozens of people at a police barricade cheered and applauded as law enforcement officers and emergency responders left the scene.
A Boston resident tells of a shooting while out walking the dog after the stay indoor request was lifted
Boston Police tweeted: ''CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody.''
In another, Boston Police tweet: ''In our time of rejoicing, let us not forget the families of Martin Richard, Lingzi Lu, Krystle Campbell and Officer Sean Collier.''
"It's a night where I think we're all going to rest easy," said Governor Deval Patrick at a news conference in Watertown, shortly after Dzhokhar's arrest, which brought locals pouring from their homes to celebrate what President Barack Obama said was the close of "an important chapter in this tragedy".
Law enforcement evacuate people near to where a suspect is hiding on Franklin St. Picture: AFP
But he said there are still many unanswered questions about the bombings, including whether the two men had help from others.
''We will determine what happened. We will investigate any associations that these terrorists may have had. And we'll continue to do whatever we have to do to keep our people safe,'' the President said.
Onlookers erupted in applause and cheers as police vehicles slowly drove away - with some officers punching the air and cheering.
Maret Tsarnaev, the aunt of the Boston suspects says they couldn't have done this
On earlier learning of the death of his oldest son, the Associated Press reported Anzor Tsarnaev, speaking from southern Russian republic of Dagestan, describing Tamerlan as "a true angel".
"They were set up, they were set up!" he told the reporter. "I saw it on television; they killed my older son Tamerlan." He told another news outlet his sons were: "Muslim, but not radical Muslim".
The brothers' mother Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, also speaking from Russia, said she too believed her sons were innocent and had been framed.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been named as the second suspect from the Boston Marathon bombings.
Tamerlan had been under FBI surveillance for three to five years, she said.
"They knew what my son was doing, they knew what sites on the Internet he was going to," she said.
She suggested FBI officers had visited her home when she still lived in the United States and told her that Tamerlan "was really an extremist leader and that they were afraid of him."
"It is really, really a hard thing to hear. And being a mother, what I can say is that I am really sure, I am, like, 100 percent sure, that this is a set-up," she said.
Before Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured, his uncle Ruslan Tsarni, held a press conference at his home in Maryland, in which he dismissed notions his nephews, who arrived in the US from southern Russia a decade ago, had any true understanding of Islam or the Chechen struggle to create a separate Muslim state.
"It has nothing to do with Islam, not the way my brother raised them. It has to do with them being losers," said Ruslan, who asked America's forgiveness for his nephews.
He said the brothers, who left Russia when they were 15 and eight respectively, were never able to feel at home in the US and "thereby just hating everyone who did". He said the bombs had nothing to do with Chechnya, but also admitted he hadn't seen his nephews for eight years.
The New York Times reported the brothers' father as saying Dzhokhar was naturalised in 2012, though Tamerlan was having trouble getting citizenship because of a domestic violence complaint.
"Because of his girlfriend, he hit her lightly, he was locked up for half an hour. There was jealousy there," Anzor Tsarnaev told the newspaper, which also reported Tamerlan was questioned by the FBI in 2011, at the request of a foreign government concerned about his extremist ties.
For William Campbell, whose sister Krystle was one of the three killed by Monday's bombs, the killing and the arrest was bittersweet. He told the Boston Globe: "I'm happy that nobody else is going to get hurt by these guys, but it's not going to bring her back."
The boys' father has said that the reason the family fled Chechnya was to escape the brutality of the crackdown. He went home a year ago, believing life had become safe for him, and wanted his sons to come home with him.
Instead, they brought the war, a war they knew little about, to the country that gave them sanctuary.
paul.toohey@news.com.au
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