The Boston Marathon bombings in 2013 were carried out by two brothers, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who had been living in the Boston area for several years.
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Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev were both born in Kyrgyzstan, but their family moved to the United States in 2002 and settled in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The brothers attended school in Cambridge and later enrolled in college, with Tamerlan studying engineering at Bunker Hill Community College and Dzhokhar studying marine biology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
Defense shows jury this old photo of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan. #Tsarnaev pic.twitter.com/tZrzFepDbz
— J.M. Lawrence (@BostonJustice) April 29, 2015
In the years leading up to the bombings, the Tsarnaev brothers lived in various locations in the Boston area, including an apartment in Cambridge and a house in Watertown. It was in the Watertown house that the brothers were confronted by police in a violent shootout that left Tamerlan dead and Dzhokhar injured and captured.
this image released by the FBI on April 19, 2013, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, walk near the marathon finish line, April 15, 2013 in Boston, Mass. pic.twitter.com/yJoIkWYzi8
— joseph race (@josephrace7) April 15, 2019
The Tsarnaev brothers were motivated by a radical interpretation of Islam, and had become increasingly radicalized in the years leading up to the bombings. They had also been influenced by the online teachings of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born imam who was a senior member of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula before he was killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2011.
The Boston Marathon bombings were a tragic event that shook the city and the country, and led to a massive manhunt for the perpetrators. The capture and trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and the death of Tamerlan, brought some closure to the families of the victims and to the city as a whole.
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The documentary series American Manhunt: Boston Marathon Bombing offers a detailed and gripping account of the events surrounding the bombings, including the manhunt for the Tsarnaev brothers and the trial that followed. Through interviews with law enforcement officials, survivors, and family members of the victims, the series sheds light on the human stories behind this tragic event and the efforts to bring those responsible to justice.
