Jeff Bauman, who was seriously injured in the Boston Marathon terror attack tearing his legs apart and rushed to the Boston Medical Center, provided the crucial tip to authorities. While in the intensive-care-unit, he wrote on a sheet of paper he was eye-to-eye with the terrorist. He lost both his legs below the knee once the bomb exploded near the finish line, Bloomberg News reported.
The suspects were identified to The Associated Press as coming from Chechnya, which has been plagued by an Islamic insurgency from separatist wars. A law enforcement intelligence bulletin obtained by the AP identified the surviving bomb suspect as Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, a 19-year-old who had been living in Cambridge.
With a bomb strapped to his chest, one of the Boston Marathon suspects was killed early Friday after he and his accomplice brother robbed a 7-Eleven, shot a police officer to death, carjacked an SUV and hurled explosives in an extraordinary firefight with law enforcement
The FBI today released photos and video of two suspects in the Boston Marathon terror bombings case, appealing to the public to help law enforcement officials in hopes of apprehending them.
