Two explosions at Boston Marathon finish line injure dozens: reports

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Boston Marathon bombing amputee scales mountain in Ecuador
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Monday, July 25, 2016 02:06 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, July 25, 2016 04:44 PM EDT
Boston Marathon bombing survivor Adrianne Haslet can check mountaineering off her bucket list.
The professional ballroom dancer lost a leg in the 2013 finish line attacks and ran the entire 26.2-mile race last spring. Over the weekend, she scaled Ecuador's third-highest mountain.
Haslet reached the summit of 18,996-foot Volcan Cayambe with a team of climbers from the Range of Motion Project. The non-profit group helps provide prosthetic limbs to amputees around the world who don't have access to them.
The expedition summited the snow-capped mountain Sunday.
"I feel the most grounded I have felt in over three years," Haslet said Monday from Ecuador in a Twitter message exchange with The Associated Press. "There is something beautiful about disconnecting from the outside world and connecting with people who are passionate about a cause: gathering around a fire, training together, and bonding in a way you only can without outside influences."
Haslet, 36, was cheering for the runners in 2013 when she was injured by the second of two bombs planted among the crowds. Three people were killed and more than 260 others wounded.
After the marathon bombings, Haslet vowed to dance again and to run the 26.2-mile race. Having done that, she's been overcoming new obstacles in a quest to raise money and awareness for groups such as the Range of Motion Project and Oklahoma City-based Limbs for Life.
Scaling the mountain, though, posed special challenges -- namely, dealing with the elements.
"It is freezing and you don't know until you are up there how hard it is to ice-pick straight up a glacier," said Haslet, who used the same prosthetic she walks and dances in, plus thick socks, boots and crampons.
Although covering the marathon distance was incredibly painful -- Haslet's special running leg caused bruising, blisters and swelling -- she said conquering Cayambe was even tougher because it was difficult to prepare at sea level.
"I couldn't practice in Boston how to climb a glacier at altitude," she said.
Haslet grew up camping and hiking with an uncle who has climbed Everest and the rest of the seven summits.
"These stories around the dinner table were all going through my mind as I climbed," she said.
Boston Marathon bombing survivor and professional dancer Adrianne Haslet-Davis shares her story at the Toronto Sun offices on Tuesday December 8, 2015. Dave Abel/Toronto Sun/Postmedia Network

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Youngest victim in marathon bombing honoured with park
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 04:28 PM EDT | Updated: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 08:29 PM EDT
BOSTON — The youngest victim of the Boston Marathon bombing was honoured Wednesday during a ceremony to break ground on a park to be built in his memory.
The family of eight-year-old Martin Richard joined Democratic Mayor Martin Walsh, Republican Gov. Charlie Baker and a crowd of supporters at a touching ceremony at the park site on the South Boston waterfront.
Martin was among three people killed when two bombs exploded near the marathon finish line on April 15, 2013.
Martin’s younger sister, Jane, who lost her left leg in the bombing, said the park will have wheelchair ramps so it’s accessible to everyone. She said the park will also have a pirate ship, a bucket swing and an amphitheatre.
“I am so happy to be doing this project, and I know Martin is happy that the community is coming together to build something inclusive, which is what Martin was all about,” she said.
Bill Richard, the children’s father, recalled his son’s quick wit, charm and “insistence on fair play.” After the bombing, a widely circulated photo showed Martin holding a poster he created the year before with the message “No more hurting people — peace.”
“His enduring message of peace that just continues to will people to come together for the common good — that’s why we’re here,” Bill Richard said.
Bill Richard said the park will be “a place where all kids will have the opportunity to learn together and play together without prejudice.”
The park will be built near the Boston Children’s Museum and is expected to open in the fall of 2018.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted and sentenced to death in the bombings.
His older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, died several days after the bombings when he was shot during a confrontation with police and run over by his brother during an escape attempt.
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Boston Marathon bomber's notes: 'We die with smiles on our faces'
Brad Hunter
Published:
October 23, 2018
Updated:
October 23, 2018 1:00 PM EDT
Tamerlan, left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, brothers who planted bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. Dzhokhar is trying to escape the death penalty.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has a date with the needle at the United States Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind.
Now, the doomed killer is fighting to avoid that grim fate.
Notes handwritten by a hospitalized Tsarnaev during his initial interrogation with law enforcement officials have been released by his lawyers appealing his case
The 68 pages — some barely legible — contain statements that his lawyers want the court to suppress. His lawyers argue the statements were not made voluntarily.
Tsarnaev’s April 19, 2013 arrest came four days after the double pressure cooker bombs exploded at the famed race, killing three and injuring nearly others. Many of the injuries were life-altering.
From left, Martin Richard, 8, Krystle Campbell, 29, and Lingzi Lu, 23, were killed in the Boston Marathon bombing. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
But now his lawyers say his statements were made involuntarily because he was too badly injured to give cohesive verbal answers. He had been shot in the head, neck, legs and face.
The killer asked in his handwritten notes: “America is at war, is it not?”
Adding: “I did what is necessary.”
The bomber and his brother Tamerlan unleashed havoc in the Hub. Tamerlan died following a shootout with cops April 19.
Tsarnaev wrote in a circled writing: “Where is my bro?”
The disturbing, bloody aftermath of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
He added on the adjoining page: “I answered your question. Do you have my bro?”
He inquired further: “Is my brother alive … I know you said he is, are you lying … Is he alive?”
The brothers were of Chechen descent and the surviving sibling insisted they were the sole participants in the bombing plot.
Tsarnaev added: “Yes my brother did after me to follow along with him and I very much wanted to …. there’s no one else that convinced him.”
What’s on your mind? Terrorist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev throws some shade from his jail cell. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cops believed the pair were looking for martyrdom and did not expect to survive the terror attack. Both brothers identified as mujahideen terrorists who “are promised the highest levels, and when we die, we die with smiles on our faces,” he wrote in the notes.
Tsarnaev was sentenced in 2015 to death by lethal injection.
http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/1...alty-appeal/vzWmt042BEmQa8iMKCFdcM/story.html
http://torontosun.com/news/world/boston-marathon-bombers-notes-we-die-with-smiles-on-our-faces

 

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Unsealed Boston Marathon bombing case docs reveal connection to 2011 triple murder
Associated Press
Published:
November 24, 2018
Updated:
November 24, 2018 8:32 PM EST
This combination of undated file photos shows Tamerlan, left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, brothers who planted bombs at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. AP Photos/Lowell Sun and FBI, FILE
BOSTON — Newly disclosed documents in the Boston Marathon bombing case are revealing new insights into an unsolved murder of three men in 2011.
The Boston Globe reports that recently unsealed case files show that Dias Kadyrbayev had offered to testify that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s knew his older brother, Tamerlan, was involved in the murders in Waltham.
Among the three men killed on Sept. 12, 2011, was 25-year-old Brendan Mess, who was once a close friend of Tamerlan.
The Tsarnaev brothers were behind the 2013 attack that killed three marathon spectators and injured hundreds more.
Kadyrbayev had been one of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s classmates at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth.
He was deported to Kazakhstan in October after serving a federal prison sentence for concealing evidence in the marathon attack.
http://bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/1...ple-slaying/J6hWHOw2LCHvr5huICY9eM/story.html
http://torontosun.com/news/crime/un...-docs-reveal-connection-to-2011-triple-murder

 

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Boston Marathon amputee struck by car, sent to hospital
Associated Press
Published:
January 7, 2019
Updated:
January 7, 2019 3:57 PM EST
Boston Marathon bombing survivor and professional dancer Adrianne Haslet-Davis shared her story at the Toronto Sun offices on Dec. 8, 2015.Dave Abel / Toronto Sun / Postmedia Network / Files
BOSTON — A woman who lost a leg in the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013 is in the hospital after being struck by a car.
Professional dancer Adrianne Haslet posted on social media that she was struck while in a crosswalk in the city’s Back Bay neighbourhood Saturday night.
Haslet posted a picture of herself in a hospital bed in a neck brace. She wrote she was “thrown into the air and landed, crushing the left side of my body.” She added that she is “completely broken.”
The driver told police he was turning and did not see Haslet because it was dark and rainy and she was wearing dark clothing.
The driver was issued a citation for failing to stop for a pedestrian in a marked crosswalk.
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http://torontosun.com/news/world/boston-marathon-amputee-struck-by-car-sent-to-hospital

 

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Funny the back pack the tzarnevs wore did not match the one that had the bombs in them, but they did match the craft international kit bags.


17 Unanswered Questions About The Boston Marathon Bombing The Media Is Afraid To Ask

The picture of the exploded knapsack was black with a white dot on it that matched the knapsack one of them were carrying but did NOT match neither of the two knapsacks the supposed perp’s had on their backs. I know that a film shows the younger brother actually placing his bag on the ground on the outside of the rail but I believe the explosion came from the sidewalk behind the rail.
http://www.thetradingreport.com/201...-marathon-bombing-the-media-is-afraid-to-ask/

 

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I guess the silver lining is she didn't lose any more parts.

 

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Court again weighs tossing marathon bomber's death sentence
Author of the article:Associated Press
Associated Press
Alanna Durkin Richer
Published Jan 10, 2023 • 4 minute read

BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s attorney urged a federal appeals court Tuesday to throw out the 29-year-old’s death sentence because of juror misconduct claims just months after it was revived by the nation’s highest court.


Tsarnaev is making a renewed push to avoid execution after the Supreme Court last year reinstated the death sentence imposed on him for his role in the bombing that killed three people and injured hundreds near the finish line of the marathon in 2013.


His lawyers are now challenging issues that weren’t considered by the Supreme Court, including whether the trial judge wrongly denied his challenge of two jurors who defense attorneys say lied during jury selection questioning.

One juror said she had not commented about the case online but had retweeted a post calling Tsarnaev a “piece of garbage.” Another juror said none of his Facebook friends had commented on the trial, even though one had urged him to “play the part” so he could get on the jury and send Tsarnaev to “jail where he will be taken of,” defense attorneys say. Tsarnaev’s lawyers raised those concerns during jury selection, but the judge chose not to look into them further, they say.


“This case was tried in Boston on a promise … that despite the extraordinary impact of the marathon bombing on this community,” a through questioning of potential jurors would remove anyone unqualified, Tsarnaev attorney Daniel Habib told the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges. “That promise was not kept.”

The Justice Department has continued to push to uphold Tsarnaev’s sentence even after Attorney General Merrick Garland last year imposed a moratorium on federal executions while the department conducts a review of its policies and procedures. The department has not indicated how long it might maintain the hold, which came after former President Donald Trump administration’s put to death 13 inmates in its final six months.


President Joe Biden has said that he opposes the death penalty and will work to end its use, but he has taken no action to do so while in office. And the moratorium doesn’t prevent federal prosecutors from seeking the death penalty, as they are in the case of a man currently on trial for killing eight people on a New York City bike path in 2017.

William Glaser, a Justice Department lawyer, told the appeals court that the trial judge did nothing wrong in his handling of the jurors. Glaser acknowledged that the jurors made inaccurate statements but said other disclosures those jurors made to the court suggest they were merely not recalling everything perfectly.

“There is no indication in this record that the inaccuracies were the kind of knowing dishonesty that would lead to disqualification,” Glaser said.


But Judge William Kayatta Jr. questioned how the trial judge could know that without looking further into Tsarnaev’s claims. And Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson told the Justice Department lawyer she found it difficult to see how Tsarnaev can’t at least plausibly claim that the juror told to “play the part” was knowingly lying.

“If, for instance, the Facebook friend had said ‘get on the jury and make sure that the death penalty isn’t imposed,’ it’s hard for me to believe that you wouldn’t be in here arguing the opposite of what you are arguing now,”‘ she told Glaser.

Some survivors of the bombing who attended the hearing met briefly with Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins afterward outside the courtroom. Marc Fucarile, who lost a leg and suffered other serious injuries in the blast, said he came to the arguments to let the judges know survivors are “still paying attention to what they are doing.”


“At a certain point we need to draw a line in the sand and say enough is enough. It is not in question what he did,” Fucarile told The Associated Press.

Tsarnaev’s lawyers acknowledged at the very beginning of his trial that he and his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, set off the two bombs that killed Lingzi Lu, a 23-year-old Boston University graduate student from China; Krystle Campbell, a 29-year-old restaurant manager from Medford, Massachusetts; and 8-year-old Martin Richard, of Boston.

They have argued, however, that he shouldn’t be put to death, saying his brother radicalized him and was the mastermind of the attack.

Tsarnaev was convicted in 2015 of all 30 charges against him, including conspiracy and use of a weapon of mass destruction and the killing of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Officer Sean Collier during the Tsarnaev brothers’ getaway attempt. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died in a gunbattle with police a few days after the April 15, 2013, bombing.

The 1st Circuit in 2020 overturned Tsarnaev’s death sentence and ordered a new penalty-phase trial to decide whether he should be executed, finding that the judge did not sufficiently questioning jurors about their exposure to extensive news coverage of the bombing. But the Supreme Court justices, by a 6-3 vote, agreed with the Biden administration that the 1st Circuit’s ruling was wrong.

Court again weighs tossing marathon bomber's death sentence

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's attorney urged a federal appeals court Tuesday to throw out the 29-year-old's death sentence.

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