On the morning of April 15, 2013 the 117th running of the Boston Marathon was scheduled to start at 0932 hours with the top women runners starting first and then followed by the top men runners and the first wave of thousands of other runners to start the race at 1000 hours. Then at 1020 hours and 1040 hours the remaining waves of runners would start their attempt at this 26.2 mile marathon. Later that afternoon at approximately 1429 hours the first of two pressure cookers bombs detonated with the second bomb detonating just seconds after the first. These bombs were homemade and designed to inflict as much damage and carnage as possible as they were filled with shrapnel like nails, ball bearings, and other materials and were hidden in ordinary
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With this information, law enforcement began to think that all the events were connected. Upon making contact with the two suspects, law enforcement ended up in a shootout with the two men and killed one of them but the other escaped. An area manhunt was in began as law enforcement resources from Federal, State, and local agencies joined together in searching for the remaining suspect. The implementation of this organized manhunt along with the fear of not knowing who was carrying out these terrifying acts basically shut down the Boston area as local authorities (law enforcement and city leaders) asked the public to stay in their homes as the Police basically went door to door looking for the alleged suspect. Eventually the last suspect was apprehended when a homeowner went to his backyard to check on his boat and found the suspect under its cover, bleeding from wounds he received from the gun fight with police the night before, called and reported the man to police. The technology used in this case was a tremendous asset in the capture and arrest of the coward(s) that committed this terrorist act and it would not have been as fast or effective without the use of the photographs before, …show more content…
Also, the volunteers and responders at the scene of the bombing working together to remove victims and provide lifesaving first aid and transport could have potentially caused the death toll to be higher than it actually
With this information, law enforcement began to think that all the events were connected. Upon making contact with the two suspects, law enforcement ended up in a shootout with the two men and killed one of them but the other escaped. An area manhunt was in began as law enforcement resources from Federal, State, and local agencies joined together in searching for the remaining suspect. The implementation of this organized manhunt along with the fear of not knowing who was carrying out these terrifying acts basically shut down the Boston area as local authorities (law enforcement and city leaders) asked the public to stay in their homes as the Police basically went door to door looking for the alleged suspect. Eventually the last suspect was apprehended when a homeowner went to his backyard to check on his boat and found the suspect under its cover, bleeding from wounds he received from the gun fight with police the night before, called and reported the man to police. The technology used in this case was a tremendous asset in the capture and arrest of the coward(s) that committed this terrorist act and it would not have been as fast or effective without the use of the photographs before, …show more content…
Also, the volunteers and responders at the scene of the bombing working together to remove victims and provide lifesaving first aid and transport could have potentially caused the death toll to be higher than it actually