19 Year Old Boston Marathon Bomber...Captured

Police have captured a 19-year-old man suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings with his older brother after a day-long manhunt that closed down the city and turned a working-class suburb into a virtual armed camp.

The break in the case sent waves of relief through the the Boston suburb of Watertown where armoured vehicles roamed the streets and helicopters flew overhead through the day. Residents and police officers cheered and clapped when the suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was caught after an exchange of gunfire with police. A Massachusetts State Police spokesman said Tsarnaev was bleeding and in a serious condition in a hospital. He had been hiding in the stern of a boat parked in the backyard of a house in Watertown, police said. A resident called police after seeing blood on the boat. The extent of his injuries is unknown at present.

President Obama told reporters at the White House after the suspect's capture that questions remained from the bombings, including whether the two suspects received any help.
The Boston Police Department said in a message on Twitter: "CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won. Suspect in custody."
Boston Mayor Tom Menino said, "we got him" on Twitter.

Tsarnaev is one of two brothers believed to have set off bombs made in pressure cookers and packed with ball bearings and nails at the finish line of the world-famous event, killing three people and injuring 176. The older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed on Thursday night (US time) in a shootout with police less than a mile from where today's capture took place.

"We are so grateful to bring justice and closure to this case," Massachusetts State Police Chief Colonel Timothy Alben told a news conference. "We are exhausted folks, but we had a victory here tonight."

Monday's bombing have been described by Obama as "an act of terrorism." It was the worst such attack on US soil since the plane hijackings of September 11, 2001, and set nerves on edge across the United States with a series of security scares. The brothers had not previously been on the radar as possible militants, US government officials said. But the FBI in 2011 interviewed the older of the two brothers, acting at the request of an unidentified foreign government. The matter was closed when it did not produce any derogatory information, according to the source, who declined to be identified.
After the capture of Tsarnaev, authorities said the investigation was still open. Police in New Bedford, Massachusetts, 96 km south of Boston said three other people had been taken into custody for questioning and released about Monday's bombings.
"No one was detained. No one was arrested," a spokesman with the Massachusetts FBI office said.
Earlier, Lieutenant Robert Richard of the New Bedford Police said that two men and one woman had been questioned "on the assumption there is an affiliation with suspect number two" - a reference to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Earlier, Alben said that officers went door-to-door in Watertown and searched houses. During the search for the men, two Black Hawk helicopters circled the area. SWAT teams moved through in formation, leaving an officer behind to ensure that searched homes remained secure. The normally traffic-clogged streets of Boston were empty as the city went into lockdown during the manhunt. Public transportation had been suspended and air space restricted. Famous universities, including Harvard and MIT, closed after police ordered residents to remain at home.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev posted links to Islamic websites and others calling for Chechen independence on what appears to be his page on a Russian language social networking site. On the site, the younger Tsarnaev identifies himself as a 2011 graduate of Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, a public school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It says he went to primary school in Makhachkala, capital of Dagestan, a province in Russia that borders Chechnya, and lists his languages as English, Russian and Chechen. His "World view" is listed as "Islam" and his "Personal priority" is "career and money". He has posted links to videos of fighters in the Syrian civil war and to Islamic web pages with titles like "Salamworld, my religion is Islam" and "There is no God but Allah, let that ring out in our hearts".
He also has links to pages calling for independence for Chechnya, a region of Russia that lost its bid for secession after two wars in the 1990s. A video labelled "my brother messing around" shows a man resembling his dead brother Tamerlan laughing and imitating the accents of different Caucasian ethnic groups.
"I don't have a single American friend," one caption quotes him as saying. "I don't understand them."