The surviving Boston Marathon bombings' suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev has been transferred from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and taken to the Federal Medical Center Devens about 40 miles west of Boston, the Guardian reported. The facility treats federal prisoners and detainees who require specialized long-term medical or mental health care.
Tsarnaev is recovering from a gunshot wound to the throat and other injuries suffered during his attempted getaway. The transfer comes a day after it was revealed that Tsarnaev and his brother had planned to go to Times Square in New York to blow up the rest of their explosives, authorities said. They concocted a spontaneous scheme that fell apart when the brothers realized the car they had hijacked was low on gas.
In their stolen sport utility vehicle they had five pipe bombs and a pressure-cooker explosive like the ones that blew up at the marathon, Kelly said. "New York City was next on their list of targets," mayor Michael Bloomberg said.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is charged with helping to carry out the Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people and wounded more than 260, and he could face the death penalty.
The Middlesex County district attorney's office also is building a murder case against the surviving Tsarnaev for the death of Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer Sean Collier three days after the bombings, office spokeswoman Stephanie Guyotte said.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was interrogated in his hospital room over a period of 16 hours without being read his constitutional rights.
He immediately stopped talking after a magistrate judge and a representative from the US attorney's office entered the room and advised him of his rights to remain silent and seek a lawyer, according to a US law enforcement official and others briefed on the interrogation.
"The U.S. Marshals Service confirms that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been transported from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is now confined at the Bureau of Prisons facility FMC Devens at Ft. Devens, Massachusetts.," said U.S. Marshals Service spokesman Drew Wade.
