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On April 15, 2013, three are killed and over 260 are injured after two bombs detonate near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. After a massive four-day manhunt during which much of Boston was locked down, police arrested 19-year-old Dzhohkar Tsarnaev and killed his older brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, in a shootout. Police believed the crime was motivated by the brothers’ extremist Islamic beliefs but do not think they were affiliated with any larger terrorist group. The younger brother was found guilty of 30 federal charges in July of 2015 and was sentenced to death. His lawyers appealed the sentence, and Tsarnaev is being held at a supermax prison in Colorado. |
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