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The Boston Marathon bombing, sometimes referred to as just simply the Boston bombing, was an Islamist domestic terrorist attack that took place during the annual Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013.
Jul 31, 2020 · A US appeals court ruled that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who planted bombs at the 2013 Boston Marathon, should not face the death penalty. The court said the trial judge had wrongly excluded jurors who had already decided his guilt.
On April 15, 2013, Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, planted pressure cooker bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The bombs detonated, killing three people and injuring 264 others.
- Boston Marathon. April 15, 2013, marked the 117th running of the Boston Marathon, the world’s oldest annual marathon. The popular event is held on Patriots’ Day, which commemorates the 1775 battles of Lexington and Concord that kicked off the Revolutionary War.
- Pressure-Cooker Bombs. At approximately 2:49 that afternoon, with more than 5,600 runners still in the race, two pressure-cooker bombs—packed with shrapnel and hidden in backpacks among crowds of marathon-watchers—exploded within seconds of each other near the finish line along Boylston Street.
- Tsarnaev Brothers. An investigation involving more than 1,000 federal, state and local law enforcement personnel was immediately launched. A breakthrough in the case came less than two days later, when FBI analysts, poring through thousands of videos and photographs taken from security cameras in the area where the attack occurred, pinpointed two male suspects.
- Tamerlan Tsarnaev. When they stopped at a Cambridge gas station, the hostage escaped and called police, informing them the SUV could be tracked by his cellphone, which was still in the vehicle.
May 28, 2024 · Boston Marathon bombing of 2013, terrorist attack that took place a short distance from the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. A pair of homemade bombs detonated in the crowd watching the race, killing 3 people and injuring more than 260.
Apr 12, 2023 · A detailed account of the 2013 terrorist attack that killed three people and injured 281 at the Boston Marathon, and the manhunt that followed. Learn how the Tsarnaev brothers planted and detonated the bombs, and how they were identified, pursued and captured.
May 1, 2013 · The FBI released photos and video on April 18, 2013, of two men identified as Suspect 1 and Suspect 2 in the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon. They were later identified as Dzhokhar...
