A haunting image emerged today showing one of the suspected Boston bombers lurking right behind eight-year-old Martin Richard moments before planting the explosive that killed him.
The suspect, named today as 19-year-old Dzhokhar A Tsarnaev, is seen just feet away from youngster while holding a rucksack believed to contain one of two bombs which killed three and injured 176 others.
Martin had been waiting to give his father a big hug to congratulate him for finishing the race, but was blown up when the twin blasts ripped through the city centre on Monday.
The astonishing picture emerged as police and SWAT teams launched a city-wide manhunt today after Dzhokhar went on the run following a fierce firefight with police that left his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the second suspect in the bombings, dead with multiple gunshot wounds.
Several images of the two suspects have been released over the last 48 hours which reveal how they to watch the carnage unleashed by the twin blasts before calmly walking away as the crowds scattered in terror.
Blurry CCTV images show the men walking in single file toward the finishing line of the race eastward along Boylston Street at 14.37pm, approximately 13 minutes before the explosions.
Investigators were looking at the men for some period of time before deciding to make the footage public to be sure they could be labelled as suspects, a source said.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, originally called suspect one, was dressed in a black baseball cap and khaki-colored trousers.
He is seen around five paces ahead of his brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, dubbed initially as suspect two, who is wearing a white baseball cap backwards, with a grey hoody underneath a black coat black pants.
In grabs taken from video, the pair do not talk to each other, but move in the same direction with backpacks hanging off their shoulders.
The footage shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev place down his backpack at the scene of the second explosion just in front of the Forum restaraunt near to where Martin Richard was standing and then move back down Boylston Street in a westward direction.
Video of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev planting his device exists, but the FBI has chosen not to release it because were the media to repeatedly show the suspects leaving the bomb, it might cause some people to overreact if they came into contact with them.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev is captured moving through the marathon crowd toward the finish line and scene of the first blast, without his brother suspect two who had disappeared from police view.
A image later emerged of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev calmly walking away from the scene of carnage as runners and spectators fleeing in panic.
The picture taken by Florida businessman David Green came just hours after the FBI lodged an appeal to identify two suspects behind the attacks that killed three and injured over 180.
According to FBI sources who have spoken to CNN, still unreleased footage reveals that Tamerlan Tsarnaev also stayed to watch the devastation.
Hours after the images were made public, the pair killed an MIT police officer and hurled explosives at police in a car chase and gun battle overnight that left Tamerlan Tsarnaev dead and Dzhokhar on the run.
Tamerlan reportedly had a bomb strapped to his chest when he was killed while he and his brother robbed a 7-Eleven, minutes earlier.
Authorities in Boston suspended all mass transit and warned close to 1 million people in the entire city and some of its suburbs to stay indoors as they pursued Dzhokhar, who is believed to have explosives strapped to his body.
Businesses were asked not to open. People waiting at bus and subway stops were told to go home.
From Watertown to Cambridge, police SWAT teams, sharpshooters and FBI agents with armored vehicles surrounded various buildings as police helicopters buzzed overhead.
'We believe this man to be a terrorist,' said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis. 'We believe this to be a man who's come here to kill people.'
SWAT teams later surrounded a house in Watertown following a massive rush of police vehicles through the area.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev posted online he will 'kill everyone because we killed his brother', according to a dispatcher in Watertown.
Two people have been taken into custody at the home in Cambridge where the brothers grew up but are not considered suspects.
The home is surrounded by FBI and a bomb squad van is on the scene.
The suspect, named today as 19-year-old Dzhokhar A Tsarnaev, is seen just feet away from youngster while holding a rucksack believed to contain one of two bombs which killed three and injured 176 others.
Martin had been waiting to give his father a big hug to congratulate him for finishing the race, but was blown up when the twin blasts ripped through the city centre on Monday.
The astonishing picture emerged as police and SWAT teams launched a city-wide manhunt today after Dzhokhar went on the run following a fierce firefight with police that left his brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the second suspect in the bombings, dead with multiple gunshot wounds.
Several images of the two suspects have been released over the last 48 hours which reveal how they to watch the carnage unleashed by the twin blasts before calmly walking away as the crowds scattered in terror.
Blurry CCTV images show the men walking in single file toward the finishing line of the race eastward along Boylston Street at 14.37pm, approximately 13 minutes before the explosions.
Investigators were looking at the men for some period of time before deciding to make the footage public to be sure they could be labelled as suspects, a source said.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev, originally called suspect one, was dressed in a black baseball cap and khaki-colored trousers.
He is seen around five paces ahead of his brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, dubbed initially as suspect two, who is wearing a white baseball cap backwards, with a grey hoody underneath a black coat black pants.
In grabs taken from video, the pair do not talk to each other, but move in the same direction with backpacks hanging off their shoulders.
The footage shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev place down his backpack at the scene of the second explosion just in front of the Forum restaraunt near to where Martin Richard was standing and then move back down Boylston Street in a westward direction.
Video of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev planting his device exists, but the FBI has chosen not to release it because were the media to repeatedly show the suspects leaving the bomb, it might cause some people to overreact if they came into contact with them.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev is captured moving through the marathon crowd toward the finish line and scene of the first blast, without his brother suspect two who had disappeared from police view.
A image later emerged of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev calmly walking away from the scene of carnage as runners and spectators fleeing in panic.
The picture taken by Florida businessman David Green came just hours after the FBI lodged an appeal to identify two suspects behind the attacks that killed three and injured over 180.
According to FBI sources who have spoken to CNN, still unreleased footage reveals that Tamerlan Tsarnaev also stayed to watch the devastation.
Hours after the images were made public, the pair killed an MIT police officer and hurled explosives at police in a car chase and gun battle overnight that left Tamerlan Tsarnaev dead and Dzhokhar on the run.
Tamerlan reportedly had a bomb strapped to his chest when he was killed while he and his brother robbed a 7-Eleven, minutes earlier.
Authorities in Boston suspended all mass transit and warned close to 1 million people in the entire city and some of its suburbs to stay indoors as they pursued Dzhokhar, who is believed to have explosives strapped to his body.
Businesses were asked not to open. People waiting at bus and subway stops were told to go home.
From Watertown to Cambridge, police SWAT teams, sharpshooters and FBI agents with armored vehicles surrounded various buildings as police helicopters buzzed overhead.
'We believe this man to be a terrorist,' said Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis. 'We believe this to be a man who's come here to kill people.'
SWAT teams later surrounded a house in Watertown following a massive rush of police vehicles through the area.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev posted online he will 'kill everyone because we killed his brother', according to a dispatcher in Watertown.
Two people have been taken into custody at the home in Cambridge where the brothers grew up but are not considered suspects.
The home is surrounded by FBI and a bomb squad van is on the scene.
Source : DailyMail
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