Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Clinging To Life In Boston Hospital After Capture
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is clinging to life in a Boston hospital after being captured by Boston police and FBI on Friday.
The remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing — his brother Tamerlan was killed in a shootout with police in the early morning hours on Friday — Dzhokhar was captured hiding in a boat near the scene of the shootout. The 19-year-old suspect is at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, the same hospital where his brother died.
The FBI asked the hospital not to give updates on his condition, but it was reported that he was badly wounded and too weak to resist when he was captured. Police think Dzkokhar Tsarnaev was wounded in the gun battle with police Thursday night, and afterward retreated to a boat in the backyard of a Watertown home.
He may have been injured again after trading gunfire with officers who closed in as he remained hidden inside the covered boat.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is accused with his brother of planting bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon that exploded Monday afternoon, shattering glass and tearing off limbs. The explosion left three people dead and close to 180 injured.
An MIT police officer was killed Thursday night after the suspects were discovered near Watertown, and another transit police officer was shot and badly hurt in a rolling gun battle.
After his arrest Friday evening, crowds in Boston broke out into celebration, spilling into the streets with American flags and chants of “Let’s go Boston!”
Dzhokhar was discovered by the homeowner, David Henneberry, when he broke the police request to remain indoors so he could have a cigarette.
“He looked and noticed something was off about his boat, so he got his ladder, and he put his ladder up on the side of the boat and climbed up, and then he saw blood on it, and he thought he saw what was a body laying in the boat,” said Henneberry’s neighbor, George Pizzuto. “So he got out of the boat fast and called police.”
As he clings to life in the Boston hospital, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is being questioned without having Miranda rights issued to him. Law enforcement officials invoked the public safety exception in his case.
