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Boston suspect transferred to prison medical center

Agence France-PresseApril 26, 2013 08:16

The surviving Boston marathon bombing suspect has been transferred from a hospital to a prison medical facility, the US Marshals Service was quoted as saying Friday. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was sent to the Federal Medical Center Devens, near Boston, spokesman Drew Wade told CNN. The facility is about 40 miles (65 kilometers) northwest of the Boston-area hospital where Tsarnaev had been convalescing since he was found critically wounded in a boat in a massive police manhunt, days after the bombing which killed three and wounded 264.

Boston suspects planned Times Square attack: NY mayor

Agence France-PresseApril 25, 2013 15:15

The ethnic Chechen brothers accused of carrying out the Boston marathon bombing planned a new attack in Times Square, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday. Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev discussed a possible attack on New York as they drove around the suburbs of Boston trying to escape a manhunt, according to New York police chief Ray Kelly. Information provided by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had been a "horrific reminder that we remain targets for terrorists," Bloomberg told a news conference.

Boston bomb suspects also wanted to attack New York - officials

Thomson ReutersApril 25, 2013 13:15

By Edith Honan and Mark Hosenball NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The two men suspected of carrying out last week's deadly Boston Marathon bombing decided after authorities identified them to drive to Manhattan and set off additional explosives in Times Square, New York City officials said on Thursday. Their plan unravelled only when they realized that a Mercedes sport utility vehicle they had hijacked on April 18, three days after the bombing, did not have enough gasoline for the journey, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.

Boston terror suspect says attack motivated by religion

Agencia EFEApril 23, 2013 10:16

Washington, Apr 23 (EFE).- Terror suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told investigators that he and his brother, Tamerlan, did not have contact with terrorist groups and acted for religious reasons, U.S. media reported Tuesday. A federal magistrate arraigned the 19-year-old man Monday at the Boston hospital where he is being treated for wounds from a shootout with police last week.

Boston bomb suspect charged, could face death

Agence France-PresseApril 22, 2013 18:18

Boston bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could face the death penalty after being charged on Monday for his alleged role in the attacks which left three people dead and 200 wounded. Tsarnaev, 19, was arraigned in his hospital bed on charges of using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction, and malicious destruction of property by means of deadly explosives, the US Department of Justice said.

Boston bomb suspect charged, could face death

Agence France-PresseApril 22, 2013 16:16

Boston bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Monday was charged with using a weapon of mass destruction and could face the death penalty if convicted, the US Department of Justice said. Tsarnaev, 19, also has been charged with one count of malicious destruction of property by means of deadly explosives, the DOJ said in a statement. He was arraigned in his hospital bed, where he remains in serious condition.

5 Dead in shootout at apartment complex near Seattle

Agencia EFEApril 22, 2013 15:01

Washington, Apr 22 (EFE).- Five people died in a shootout at an apartment complex near Seattle, U.S. media outlets reported Monday. Among the four men and one woman killed is a suspect who was shot by police, NBC News said, citing police sources. Police officers arrived at the scene, an apartment complex located in the town of Federal Way, south of Seattle, after receiving an emergency telephone call for help and a report of gunfire.

Police await answers from Boston suspect

Agence France-PresseApril 21, 2013 22:16

Police were seeking answers Sunday from the seriously wounded surviving Boston bombing suspect, amid reports he was responding in writing to questions due to throat injuries. Investigators who had been waiting to interrogate Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, since his capture on Friday are trying to determine whether his neck wound was self-inflicted in a suicide attempt, USA Today quoted a federal law enforcement official as saying.

Boston bomb suspect drove over brother

Agence France-PresseApril 20, 2013 13:15

Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev drove over his dying brother to escape a gunbattle with police, the police chief of the town where the manhunt ended said Saturday. Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev also hurled a pressure cooker bomb, like one used in the marathon attack, at officers chasing them in the early hours of Friday, Watertown's police chief Edward Devau told CNN. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in the shootout while his brother, 19, eluded capture until late Friday, when he was found hiding in a boat in Watertown.

US looks for motive after capture of bomb suspect

Agence France-PresseApril 20, 2013 11:45

Police guarded Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in hospital Saturday as detectives searched for clues to how the Chechen teenager and his brother could have turned to terrorism. Tsarnaev was in "serious condition" in a hospital where some victims of Monday's marathon bombing are also being treated, after he was found hiding in a boat at the end of a manhunt that paralyzed Boston. The 19-year-old was wounded in an earlier shootout in which his 26-year-old brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev -- who has been linked to Islamic extremism through social media -- was killed.