Week 1--Boston bomb suspect captured

Boston bomb suspect captured

By Jay Lindsay and Eileen Sullivan ,AP
April 21, 2013, 12:05 am TWN

WATERTOWN, Massachusetts -- Police captured the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, found bloodied in a backyard boat after a wild car chase and gun battle that left his older brother dead and the Boston area sealed in an extraordinary dragnet.

The capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — taken alive, though seriously wounded — lifted days of anxiety for Boston and Americans everywhere, but little was known about the motivation of the ethnic Chechen brothers.

President Barack Obama vowed investigators would solve that mystery. “The families of those killed so senselessly deserve answers,” said Obama, who branded the suspects “terrorists.”

During a long night of violence Thursday and into Friday, the brothers killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer, severely wounded another lawman and hurled explosives at police in a desperate getaway attempt, authorities said.

Late Friday, less than an hour after authorities said the search for Dzhokhar had proved fruitless, they tracked down the 19-year-old university student holed up in the boat. He was weakened by a gunshot wound after fleeing on foot from the overnight shootout with police that left 200 spent rounds behind.

Tsarnaev was hospitalized in serious condition, unable to be questioned about his motives.

Boston police announced via Twitter that Tsarnaev was in custody. They later wrote: “CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody.”

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in the shootout early in the day. At one point, he was run over by his younger brother in a car as he lay wounded, according to investigators.

The bloody endgame came four days after the bombing and just a day after the FBI released surveillance-camera images of two young men suspected of planting the pressure-cooker explosives that ripped through the crowd at the marathon finish line, killing three people and wounding more than 180.

The two men were identified by authorities and relatives as ethnic Chechens from southern Russia who had been in the U.S. for about a decade and were believed to be living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. But investigators gave no details on the motive for the bombing.

Obama said the capture closed “an important chapter in this tragedy,” but he said there are many unanswered questions about the Boston bombings, including whether the two men had help from others. He urged people not to rush judgment about their motivations.

“When a tragedy like this happens, with public safety at risk and the stakes so high, it's important that we do this right,” he said. “That's why we take care not to rush to judgment — not about the motivations of these individuals, certainly not about entire groups of people.”

The breakthrough came when a man in Watertown saw blood on a boat parked in a yard and pulled back the tarp to see a man covered in blood, authorities said. The resident called authorities and when police arrived, they tried to talk the suspect into getting out of the boat, said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis.

“He was not communicative,” Davis said.

Instead, he said, there was an exchange of gunfire — the final volley of one of the biggest manhunts in American history.

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/americas/2013/04/21/376648/Boston-bomb.htm

Structure of the Lead：

   WHO-Police,Boston Marathon bombing suspect

   WHAT-Boston Marathon bombing

   WHY-to capture the suspect

   WHERE-WATERTOWN, Massachusetts

   HOW-a wild car chase and gun battle

Keywords：

   1.  suspect:涉嫌人

   2. capture:捕獲

   3. motivations:動機

   4.investigator:調查者

   5. individuals:個人

   6. communicative:交際

   7. explosive:爆炸物

   8.  terror:恐怖

    9. wounded:受傷的

  10. bombing:轟炸