On April 15, 2013, two explosions ripped through the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three and injuring hundreds. The euphoria of crossing the finish line turned into bloody chaos as two Islamic terrorists planted homemade bombs that rocked the end of the 26.2-mile trek.
Two explosions ripped through the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. The euphoria of crossing the finish line turned into bloody chaos as two bombs blasted the end of the 26.2-mile trek. The blasts left more than 200 injured, three dead and a nation looking for answers. A massive manhunt was underway for two suspects, brothers Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev of Cambridge, Mass. Tamerlan was killed in a gunfight with police overnight on April 19, 2013. His brother, Dzhokhar, was captured alive and taken into custody later in the evening after he was found hiding at the bottom of a covered boat in the backyard of a Watertown, Mass. home.
Immediately following the Boston Marathon bombings, the now-convicted Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, is pictured in a white hat running away from the scene.
The force of the bombs literally ripped the pants off this victim. Many victims lost limbs as homemade pressure-cooker bombs sprayed shrapnel into the crowd at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013.
A woman covered in blood sits in disbelief at the scene of the explosions at the Boston Marathon. Victims, some in shock after the explosions, were treated on the scene on April 15, 2013.
A woman is placed onto a stretcher near the finish line of the Boston Marathon following two explosive blasts on April 15, 2013. In a cruel twist of fate, the young woman named Victoria McGrath died 3 years later in a fiery Ferrari crash in Dubai.
The destruction and chaos from the explosions can be seen near the site of one of the explosions on Boylston Street. The two blasts were about 50-to-100 yards apart and happened around 2:50 p.m.
Tamerlan Anzorovich Tsarnaev (left) and his younger brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev planted bombs at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, claiming the lives of three people and reportedly injuring 264 more. After the FBI released images of the suspects, the Tsarnaev brothers killed an MIT police officer and engaged in a shootout with the police in Watertown in Boston. Tamerlan was captured but died before Dzhokhar escaped but was later found and arrested on April 29, 2013. On April 8, 2015, Tsarnaev was found guilty on all thirty counts of the indictment.
In the chaotic aftermath of the explosions, passersby rushed to the rescue of the injured. Here, a man comforts one victim of the explosions as she lies on the sidewalk following the blasts on April 15, 2013.
Passersby put pressure on a victim’s leg to try to stop the bleeding at the scene of the first explosion near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013.
Two volunteers embrace as an injured person is put on a stretcher following the aftermath of the two blasts.
A man, one of nearly 100 injured by the blasts, reacts as he’s loaded into an ambulance in Boston on April 15, 2013.
A Boston Marathon runner leaves the course crying near Copley Square after learning of the explosions.
The two blasts were 50 to 100 yards apart and exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013.
The explosions caused runners to fall to the ground while running the marathon. Here, police officers draw their guns at the sound of the second explosion on April 15, 2013.
A young woman hugs her father after learning of the explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
Medical responders tend to an injured man just past the finish line at the 2013 Boston Marathon on April 14, 2013.
A spectator reacts to the scene at the Boston Marathon following the two explosions on April 15, 2013.
Runners of the 117th Boston Marathon react after learning of the explosions on April 15, 2013.
Many were injured by flying glass that shattered as a result of the explosions. Here, a blast site on Boylston Street is seen after the blasts.
Spectators quickly react by carrying an injured person away from the scene of the explosions at the Boston Marathon.
An injured woman is treated by rescue personnel at the scene of the Boston Marathon explosion on April 15, 2013.
Runner John Ounao cries as he’s reunited with friends after learning of the explosions at the Boston Marathon.
The jarring explosions sent people running at the scene of the blasts on April 15, 2013.
The explosions ripped through Copley Square near the finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon. Spectators on the streets of Boston captured the explosions as they rocked the marathon.
First responders rushed to the bloody scene as the marathon organizers confirmed that two bombs exploded near the finish line.
The area filled with smoke as runners were thrown to the ground. Rescue workers lunged to pull fencing, posters, wood shards and other debris off the injured as ambulances snaked into the area. The media room and marathon headquarters were placed on lockdown.
Two explosions went off near the finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013.
A Boston police officer wheels an injured boy down Boylston Street as medical workers carry an injured runner following an explosion during the Boston Marathon.
Medical workers aid injured people at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon following an explosion in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013.
A man is tended to after explosions rocked the finish line at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013.
Spectators and rescue personnel react after the explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013.
Injured runners and spectators are carried across the finish line during the 2013 Boston Marathon.
Medical workers rushed to the scene of the explosion at the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013.
Boston police cleared Boylston Street following the two explosions at the Boston Marathon on April 14, 2013.
Photos show the chaotic aftermath near the race’s finish line in Copley Square, where spectators were being carried to the medical tent that had been set up to care for fatigued runners.
A member of the bomb squad investigates a suspicious item on the road near Kenmore Square after two bombs exploded during the 117th Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Medical workers aid an injured person at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon.
People comfort each other after explosions went off at the 117th Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts on April 15, 2013.
First responders tend to the wounded where two explosions occurred along the final stretch of the Boston Marathon on Boylston Street.
The 19-year-old also lifts up his shirt before appearing to slump across the side of the boat, which was parked in the driveway of a suburban Boston home. Sgt. Sean Murphy, a tactical photographer with the Massachusetts State Police, took the photos on the ground – the clearest images yet of the striking April 19 takedown of the fugitive teen.
Members of the SWAT team are seen near the scene where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was apprehended.
An FBI officer stands in front of the boat at 67 Franklin St. where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, was hiding inside in Watertown, Massachusetts.
This still frame from video shows Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev visible through an ambulance after he was captured in Watertown, Massachusetts on April 19, 2013. The 19-year-old was in serious condition at a hospital protected by armed guards, and he was unable to be questioned to determine his motives. U.S. officials said a special interrogation team for high-value suspects would question him without reading him his Miranda rights, invoking a rare public safety exception triggered by the need to protect police and the public from immediate danger.
Police and officials from the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms apprehend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on April 19, 2013.
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge was captured alive while hiding at the bottom of a boat in the backyard of a Watertown, Mass., home on April 19, 2013. The entire city had been on lockdown all day as cops went on a massive search for Tsarnaev, who had escaped a shootout around 1 a.m. during a night of terror that left his brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, dead. In newly surfaced photos taken by Sgt. Sean Murphy, a tactical photographer with the Massachusetts State Police, a blood-stained Dzhokhar is seen emerging from his hideout, raising a red-smeared hand in the air while his forehead glows red from the laser of a sniper rifle.
A man in a bathrobe is evacuated from a home in Watertown. Mass. on April 19, 2013.
The Saturday, April 20, 2013, cover of the New York Daily News featured the conclusion of the manhunt for the Boston Marathon bomber, while the cover of the Boston Herald, featured a play on words involving suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s capture in a boat.
