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Updated April 19, 2013, 5:16 p.m. ET

Boston Gripped by High-Stakes Manhunt

Suspect Still at Large Is Identified as 19-Year-Old of Chechen Background; Older Brother Killed in Shootout
By EV A N PEREZ , JENNIFER SMITH and PERV A IZ SHA LLWA NI

Heavily armed FBI and police SWAT teams combed through Watertown, Mass. in a massive manhunt for
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Video: YouTube/Scott Sassone, YouTube/David
Tamang.

The Boston area remained on lockdown into the afternoon Friday as authorities conducted a
manhunt for one of two brothers of Chechen background suspected in Monday's Boston Marathon
bombings and a deadly showdown that began unfolding Thursday night.
Authorities identified one suspect as 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed in a
confrontation with police in Watertown, Mass., according to a U.S. law-enforcement official.
More
WHAT WE KNOW: Suspects, Lockdown, MIT
Two Brothers in Refugee Family
Uncle 'Ashamed' of Alleged Bombers
Spotlight Falls Back on Chechnya
Attacks Enter Immigration Discussion
Dragnet Quiets Normally Bustling Boston
Remembering MIT's Officer Collier

Essay
The Boston Bombing Suspects and The
Caucasus

A manhunt was on for the second suspect, identified as

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19 years old. Both brothers were
believed to be involved in the fatal shooting of a
Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus police
officer during Thursday night's chaotic series of events.
Police warned residents that the at-large suspect was
armed and dangerous. "We believe this to be a
terrorist," said Boston Police Chief Ed Davis. "We
believe this to be a man who's come here to kill people.
We need to get him in custody."
Map: Boston Area

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Authorities
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brother was
critically
injured in the
shootout that
began
Thursday
night and
was taken to
Beth Israel
Deaconess
Medical
Center in Boston, where he was pronounced dead. Richard Wolfe, the hospital's chief of emergency
medicine, said the man had multiple injuries from what appeared to be both an explosive device
and gunshot wounds.
Officials took the unprecedented step of asking people in metropolitan Boston to stay in their
homes with the doors locked today while they looked for the suspect. The officials said part of the
reason for the lockdown is that authorities are concerned the brothers may have had accomplices,
and if so, any such accomplices could also try to take action.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick asked people throughout Boston to take shelter and stay
indoors. The Federal Aviation Administration closed the low-level airspace above roughly four
miles in northwest Greater Boston as the search goes on. Amtrak officials said Friday that all
service from Providence, R.I., to Boston would remain suspended indefinitely.
The younger brother was the suspect seen wearing a
white cap backward in video and photos released by the
Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thursday. The
release prompted a large number of tips from the
public, federal officials said. The older brother was
wearing a black cap in the video and photos.

Photos: Chaos in Boston

Matt Rourke/Associated Press

Police officers walked near the crime scene

Friday.

The younger Mr. Tsarnaev is a student at the

University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, university
spokesman Robert Lamontagne said. The university is
located in southeast Massachusetts, about an hour
south of Boston.
"Out of an abundance of caution, the campus has been
closed," he said in an email. "Students, staff and faculty
who have not already evacuated have been told to
shelter in place. No one is being allowed on campus."

The Brothers' Background

Associated Press

This photo released by the FBI shows a

suspect that officials identified as Dzhokhar
Tsarnaev.

Intelligence officials said the two men came to the U.S.

at different times, with the elder brother arriving on his
own in 2003 or 2004. Bulletins sent out to law
enforcement indicated that the younger Mr. Tsarnaev
arrived in the country in 2002, said a federal lawenforcement official who reviewed the bulletin. He was
born in 1993; his older brother was born in 1986, the
official said.
FBI Releases Photos of Suspects

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More Video

Where did the alleged bombers of the Boston

Marathon come from? What were their career
aspirations? What can we learn from their online
media presence? WSJ's Jason Bellini has "The
Short Answer."
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Giuliani on the Boston Manhunt
Suspects' Uncle Speaks Out
State Officials Hold Press Conference
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Witness Accounts From Shootout
Video Footage From Watertown Shootout
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counterterrorism officials have been scouring existing

intelligence reportingcommunications, human-source
reporting, finances, travel recordsto look for
intersections with the two men, officials said. They are
also looking at the same types of data on all relatives
and friends and others connected to the two men, both
overseas and in the U.S.
Intelligence and counterterrorism officials are
particularly interested in the travel of the men and any
associates in and out of Boston, including whether they
have traveled overseas to the Northern Caucasus.
Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert
Mueller on Friday morning briefed President Barack
Obama on the latest in the manhunt. An administration
official said the president and Vice President Joe Biden
convened a meeting in the White House Situation Room
with his top national-security officials, to follow up on
briefings he had received through the night.
Rep. Peter King (R., N.Y.), who sits on the House
homeland security and intelligence committees, said he
hopes the fugitive is captured peacefully. "I'm hoping
they get the second guy alive and can interrogate him,
so we can figure out, did they do it on their own or are

they affiliated with a larger group?"

The Showdown Begins

Law-enforcement officials say their working theory of the events of Thursday night and Friday
morning is that once the suspects' photos were distributed publicly, they decided they needed to
get money and a car to leave town.
The violence began at around 10:30 p.m. Thursday with the robbery of a 7-Eleven in nearby
Cambridge, authorities said.
The two men then allegedly fatally shot an MIT campus police officer and carjacked a Mercedes
sport-utility vehicle at gunpoint, keeping the vehicle's owner hostage for about a half-hour, police
said. The brothers told their carjacking victim they were responsible for the marathon bombings,
the officials said, before letting him go at a gas station in Cambridge. The carjacking victim wasn't
injured.
Soon after that, police began chasing the stolen car, and the suspects tried to throw some kind of
explosive devices out of the car to escape law enforcement, officials said. "There was an exchange
of gunfire" between police and the suspects," State Police Col. Timothy Alben said.

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Hundreds of police officers descended on the Cambridge and Watertown areas as the violence
unfolded Thursday night, authorities said. Residents said they heard loud explosions and gunfire.
Katie Blouin, 24 years old, of Watertown, said FBI agents and local police entered her house,
searching before telling her boyfriend to lock the house's doors.
"I'm shaking," she said. "It just makes you so nervous."
The Boston Bombings
A look at the events that have happened
since two deadly explosions that shook the
Boston Marathon on Monday.

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center geared up for a

potential mass-casualty event when one doctor there
who lives near the scene of the gunfightheard the
commotion outside his home.
"When I started hearing the gunshots and explosions,
given what had happened over at MIT and seeing all
the police cars rushing into Watertown and past my
house and hearing all the sirens, I knew or felt very
strongly that this was related to the events from earlier
this week as well as from what happened over at MIT,"
said David Schoenfeld, an emergency physician there,
during a news conference early Friday.

Terror in the U.S.

Review other major plots of terrorism on
American soil.

"Because of that, I felt as though something large

enough was going on in the community that it
warranted calling the emergency department and
coming in," he said.
MIT identified the police officer killed Thursday as Sean
A. Collier, 26, of Somerville, Mass. The officer had
multiple gunshot wounds and was taken to a nearby
hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to a
statement on the Middlesex County District Attorney's
website.
Officer Collier appears to have been ambushed, having
had no previous contact with the suspect, said a
spokeswoman for the district attorney's office.

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority officer Richard Donahue, 33, was struck by a bullet
and remains in critical condition, the spokeswoman said.

Family Interviewed
FBI agents in Maryland interviewed two of the suspects' uncles in Maryland, U.S. lawenforcement officials said. The relatives are cooperating and the activity isn't related to any
potential threat, the officials said.
Ruslan Tsarni, an uncle of the two suspects, told reporters outside his Maryland home Friday that
he was ashamed of what they allegedly did.
He said he didn't believe that the suspects had an ideological motive but called them "losersnot
being able to settle themselves [in America] and thereby just hating everyone who did."
He added: "This has nothing to do with Chechnya.''
The uncle urged his fugitive nephew to turn himself in and ask for "forgiveness from the victims,
from the injured.He put a shame on our family, he put a shame on the entire Chechen ethnicity
because everyone now plays with the word Chechen so he put that shame on the entire ethnicity."
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Law-enforcement officers descended on Mr. Tsarni's home Friday morning, and he was
questioned by investigators for several hours. The home is on a quiet cul-de-sac in Montgomery
Village, a suburb of Washington, D.C.
A second uncle also lives in the area.
Devlin Barrett, Josh Dawsey, Jon Kamp and Jack Nicas contributed to this article.

Write to Evan Perez at evan.perez@wsj.com and Jennifer Smith at jennifer.smith@wsj.com

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