The suspects in the Boston Marathon $MPC explosions are two brothers of Chechen descent who have lived in the US for much of the last decade, attending schools in Massachusetts. Any motivation for the act remains unclear at the moment, amid varying accounts of the intensity of their political and religious engagement. The older brother, an amateur boxer who hoped to join the US Olympic team at one point, was killed in a gunfight with law enforcement early this morning. His young brother was apprehended alive after being surrounded in a boat in backyard in Watertown, Mass. Here are some of the key details:
This is Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19 years old, the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing who was captured after the manhunt in the Boston area:
His brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed in a gunfight in Cambridge, Massachusetts, earlier this morning. This is a photo of the 26-year-old on the day of the marathon that was released by the FBI:
The brothers shared an address—410 Norfolk St. Apt 3, in Cambridge, Massachusetts—with Zubeidat K. Tsarnaeva, who is believed to be their mother and was was charged with shoplifting last June, according to the Natick Police Department. Here is that location on Google $GOOGL Street View:
