An aerial view over David Henneberry's home in Watertown, Massachusetts reveals his covered boat that would become the hideout by Boston bombing suspect #2, Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19
Dramatic photographs reveal how breakthrough technology helped police home in on the second marathon bombing suspect 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
The pictures reveal how state-of-the-art thermal imaging cameras helped police track the Chechen terror suspect while he hid on David Henneberry's boat for his final stand off in Watertown following a terrifying week of violence.
Henneberry called 911 after spotting blood and what he thought was a crumpled body in his boat, which was sitting in the backyard of his home. Authorities then used a helicopter equipped with a thermal imaging device to confirm that there was a body in the tarp covered boat and that the person was alive.
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In hiding: Dzhokhar was discovered by Massachusetts resident David Henneberry hiding in his boat. Police used thermal imaging to monitor his movements
Hovering over the area, the helicopter spotted the heat signature of a person, confirming Henneberry's suspicions..Our helicopter had actually detected the subject in the boat,' Col. Timothy Alben of the Massachusetts State Police told NBC News. 'We have what's called a FLIR — a forward-looking infrared device — on that helicopter. The chopper monitored the body in the boat for more than an hour before police moved in and took the bleeding Dzhokhar Tsarnaev into custody.
He remained in hospital today and was described as clinging to life as Gov. Deval Patrick said: 'I hope he survives, because we have a million questions.'
The secret service's top interrogators are now waiting to quiz him as he is treated in the same hospital where 11 victims are still recovering.
Thermal imagers are able to detect a body or other heat source inside a house, a vehicle, or in this case, a boat, because heat, unlike visible-light wavelengths can pass through walls. Police routinely use them to find out whether marijuana is being grown inside a house with heat lamps. A nightmarish 24 hours came to an end in Boston at around 8:45pm yesterday as the 19-year-old suspect was taken into custody alive but injured after a gun battle with police and federal agents. It signaled the end of five days of terror set-off by the double bombing at the marathon finish line.
The mayor of Boston, Thomas Menino, was quoted by the Boston Globe as exclaiming, 'We got him'.
'I have never loved this city and its people more than I do today. Nothing can defeat the heart of this city .. nothing.'
Relieved law enforcement officers began cheering and clapping after he was arrested and thousands of jubilant members of the public took to the streets to salute their hard work. Dzhokhar's older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, lay dead following a furious fire-fight alongside his younger brother with police on Thursday which left one officer dead.
Hi-tech: Boston police deployed all the technology they have to track down Dzhokhar
Busted: The robotic arm pulls back the boat cover to reveal the hiding terror suspect
Assisted: This striking picture shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lying on the ground of the property of 67 Franklin Street in Watertown after authorities apprehended him. He had to have medical assistance to breathe
Wounded: This still frame from video shows Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev visible through an ambulance after he was captured in Watertown on Friday
Security: Law enforcement officials stand guard outside the West Clinical Center, pictured, where Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is being treated
David Henneberry became the day's unusual hero when he decided to check on his beloved boat moments after police lifted a Boston-wide lock-down believing they wouldn't find the younger suspect.
On spotting him inside Henneberry 'freaked out' and ran inside to call police - who dispatched the helicopter. Within minutes police, ATF, SWAT and K-9 units had descended upon 67 Franklin Street and engaged Tsarnaev in a vicious gun battle - over 40 shots rang out in the quiet suburban neighborhood.
Authorities, using a bullhorn, had called on the suspect to surrender: 'Come out with your hands up.'
Authorities, using a bullhorn, had called on the suspect to surrender: 'Come out with your hands up.'
'We used a robot to pull the tarp off the boat,' David Procopio of the Massachusetts State Police said to CNN. 'We were also watching him with a thermal imaging camera in our helicopter. He was weakened by blood loss -- injured last night most likely.'
Applause: A police officer breaks into a smile as the crowd applaud him on the news of the arrest of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Friday, April 19, 2013, in Boston
Celebration: Crowd gathered to celebrate in the Boston Common after both marathon bombing suspects were found
President Obama praised the outcome after a 'tough week' but said the focus would now be on getting answers for the victims. He said: 'Why did young men who grew up and studied here as part of our communities and our country resort to such violence?'
'We've closed an important chapter in this tragedy,' added Mr. Obama said in his televised address.
Federal law enforcement officials are invoking the public safety exception to the Miranda rights. That means that Tsarnaev will be questioned immediately without having his rights read to him. Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham have called for Tsarnaev to be held as an enemy combatant, although the chances of that being permitted are slim.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick speaks during a news conference announcing the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing
President Obama said it was important justice was 'done right'.
'In this day of instant reporting, tweets, and blogs, there is a temptation to latch onto any bit of information, sometimes to jump to conclusions, but when a tragedy like this happens, with the public safety at risk and the stakes so high, it important to do this right,' Obama said.
'That's why have an investigation, that's why we relentlessly gather the facts, that's why we have courts.'
'Whatever hateful agenda drove these men cannot, will not prevail,' he said, 'and whatever they thought they could achieve failed because the people of Boston refuse to be intimidated, and we as Americans refuse to be terrorized.'
The two suspects were ethnic Chechens from southern Russia who had been in the U.S. for about a decade and lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Investigators still have given no details on the motive for the bombing.
Early on Friday morning, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a ferocious gun battle and car chase during which he and his younger brother hurled explosives at police from a stolen car, authorities said. The younger brother managed to escape. During the getaway attempt, the brothers killed Sean Collier, an MIT policeman, and severely wounded another officer, authorities said.
Chechnya has been the scene of two wars between Russian forces and separatists since 1994, in which tens of thousands were killed in heavy Russian bombing. That spawned an Islamic insurgency that has carried out deadly bombings in Russia and the region, although not in the West.
The older brother had strong political views about the United States, said Albrecht Ammon, 18, a downstairs-apartment neighbor in Cambridge. Ammon quoted Tsarnaev as saying that the U.S. uses the Bible as 'an excuse for invading other countries.' It has emerged that the FBI interviewed the older brother at the request of Russia in 2011 but dropped their surveillance after finding nothing they thought was worth following up.
'That's why have an investigation, that's why we relentlessly gather the facts, that's why we have courts.'
'Whatever hateful agenda drove these men cannot, will not prevail,' he said, 'and whatever they thought they could achieve failed because the people of Boston refuse to be intimidated, and we as Americans refuse to be terrorized.'
The two suspects were ethnic Chechens from southern Russia who had been in the U.S. for about a decade and lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Investigators still have given no details on the motive for the bombing.
Early on Friday morning, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a ferocious gun battle and car chase during which he and his younger brother hurled explosives at police from a stolen car, authorities said. The younger brother managed to escape. During the getaway attempt, the brothers killed Sean Collier, an MIT policeman, and severely wounded another officer, authorities said.
Chechnya has been the scene of two wars between Russian forces and separatists since 1994, in which tens of thousands were killed in heavy Russian bombing. That spawned an Islamic insurgency that has carried out deadly bombings in Russia and the region, although not in the West.
The older brother had strong political views about the United States, said Albrecht Ammon, 18, a downstairs-apartment neighbor in Cambridge. Ammon quoted Tsarnaev as saying that the U.S. uses the Bible as 'an excuse for invading other countries.' It has emerged that the FBI interviewed the older brother at the request of Russia in 2011 but dropped their surveillance after finding nothing they thought was worth following up.
Members of the public cheer as police officers leave the scene where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, was taken into custody in Watertown, Massachusetts on Friday
Grateful Public Cheer police
Hundreds of Northeastern University students gather in Hemenway Street to celebrate the capture of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Boston on April 19th
Frank McGillin, who has ran three Boston Marathons, waves a U.S. flag
Authorities are still holding three people in custody in New Bedford, who are suspected of association or collusion with the bombers. New Bedford is 65 miles south of the city, the Boston Globe reports. It is unknown how they were connected to the case. At least seven IEDs were found, some in Watertown and some at a home in Cambridge, which police made safe.
It emerged earlier in the day that Dzhokhar had several active online profiles and even posted messages warning people to 'stay safe' after the bombings - an apparent attempt to cover his tracks. The 19-year-old, who attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School and was a registered student at University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth, was also a 9/11 denier and posted a chilling message on Twitter eight months ago where he wrote: ‘Boston marathon isn’t a good place to smoke'.
The tweet last August appeared on the micro-blogging site from user @J_Tsar - named in multiple reports as an alias for the man behind Monday’s atrocity. He also tweeted about his intent to grow a beard and how he ‘wanted out’ of American life.
The messages suggested the level of forethought and planning that the Chechen immigrants allegedly put into the devastating attack on Boston.
The tweets added to a picture of Dzhokhar which was emerging on Friday, as a young man who had hidden his sinister intentions beneath the facade of a party-loving but dedicated student who was captain of his high school wrestling team.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, emerged as the FBI's 'Suspect 2' on Thursday after he was seen on CCTV wearing a white baseball cap and dropping a backpack shortly before the huge blasts.
The older brother Tamerlan attended Bunker Hill Community College and was studying to become an engineer but took a year off to pursue boxing. He said in an interview with a Boston University student magazine in 2010: 'I don't have a single American friend. I don't understand them.'
The 26-year-old had a profile on YouTube channel since August 2012. Five months ago, Tamerlan created a playlist dedicated to terrorism. Named simply ‘Terrorists,’ the playlist included a pair of videos, which are now no longer available. Although most of the clips in the channel are ordinary music videos, Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s YouTube channel shows signs that he had been drawn to radical Islamism. Among the songs on his playlists was one called ‘I will dedicate my life to Jihad.' He also featured videos recorded by recent converts to Islam.
Many members of the family denounced the two men and the suspects' uncle Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Maryland, pleaded on television for Dzhokhar to give up.
'Dzhokhar, if you are alive, turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness,' he said.
The 19-year-old's father on Saturday pleaded for him to tell police 'everything'. 'Just be honest,' he said.
The tweet last August appeared on the micro-blogging site from user @J_Tsar - named in multiple reports as an alias for the man behind Monday’s atrocity. He also tweeted about his intent to grow a beard and how he ‘wanted out’ of American life.
The messages suggested the level of forethought and planning that the Chechen immigrants allegedly put into the devastating attack on Boston.
The tweets added to a picture of Dzhokhar which was emerging on Friday, as a young man who had hidden his sinister intentions beneath the facade of a party-loving but dedicated student who was captain of his high school wrestling team.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, emerged as the FBI's 'Suspect 2' on Thursday after he was seen on CCTV wearing a white baseball cap and dropping a backpack shortly before the huge blasts.
The older brother Tamerlan attended Bunker Hill Community College and was studying to become an engineer but took a year off to pursue boxing. He said in an interview with a Boston University student magazine in 2010: 'I don't have a single American friend. I don't understand them.'
The 26-year-old had a profile on YouTube channel since August 2012. Five months ago, Tamerlan created a playlist dedicated to terrorism. Named simply ‘Terrorists,’ the playlist included a pair of videos, which are now no longer available. Although most of the clips in the channel are ordinary music videos, Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s YouTube channel shows signs that he had been drawn to radical Islamism. Among the songs on his playlists was one called ‘I will dedicate my life to Jihad.' He also featured videos recorded by recent converts to Islam.
Many members of the family denounced the two men and the suspects' uncle Ruslan Tsarni of Montgomery Village, Maryland, pleaded on television for Dzhokhar to give up.
'Dzhokhar, if you are alive, turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness,' he said.
The 19-year-old's father on Saturday pleaded for him to tell police 'everything'. 'Just be honest,' he said.
Fist Pump: A SWAT officer raises his fist in Watertown, Mass. Friday, April 19, 2013, after the manhunt for the second of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing was successful
On the move: Several different agencies including the Boston police, FBI and SWAT teams were working together
Constant danger: Scores of police and SWAT team members were surrounding the Boston suburb on Friday morning
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