Boston Marathon Bombing
Boston Marathon Bombing On April 15, 2013 during the Boston Marathon in Copley Square, two bombs exploded near the finish line killing at least three and injuring over 170 people. This bombing sent the nation in an uproar and it was immediately recognized as a terrorist attack. When the Federal Bureau of Investigation took over, a few days later a surveillance video and photographs of the two suspects were released. After the suspects were named, Dzhokar Tsarnaev, 19, and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, the violence began. On Thursday, April 18, three days after the attack, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer, Sean A. Collier, was found dead in his vehicle near the MIT campus. According to police, that same night, two suspects hijacked an SUV at gunpoint, keeping the victim in the car. The victim later escaped and the police tracked the two suspects as they were driving in two vehicles. Between the early hours of 12:00AM and 1:00AM, the brothers are spotted and they engage in a shoot-out with the officers. Tamerlan, the older brother, is killed while the younger brother, Dzhokar, gets away. This is the start of the manhunt that shut down the capital of Massachusetts. After hours of searching for Dzhokar, a resident of Watertown called the police and alerted them that he was in the boat in his backyard. Finally, the Boston capture ended this scary and intense week that put the nation on edge. This event was chosen because it was the most recent event that took place. It was talked about throughout America and everyone was curious as to why the attack was done. Being that it was labeled as a terrorist attack, it brought much attention to the media. There was coverage on the attack for weeks, and there is still more information coming out to the public, today. I also chose this event because I had questions of my own that I wanted to get answers to, such as, why did these brothers turn to violence on society after living in America? They seemed