'We got him!' Fugitive 'bomber' captured ALIVE after he was found hiding inside a BOAT in backyard of Boston home. Cops use flash-bang grenades and gas to flush out Dzhokar Tsarnev - Police captured Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, on Friday night after a day-long manhunt using helicopters and heavily armed officers in a Boston suburb
- Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, apprehended 'covered in blood and hiding in a covered boat in Watertown by homeowner who ventured out after curfew was lifted'
- He and law enforcement officers engaged in a furious exchange of gun-fire that began shortly after 7.pm.
- Over 30 rounds were fired in the exchange - as terrified residents of Franklin Street were evacuated by police
- The stand-off continued until approximately 8.45 p.m. when Boston police announced onto Twitter that Tsarnaev had been apprehended
- Tsarnaev reportedly surrendered himself to police having been shot twice
- He was rushed to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is reported to have lost a great deal of blood
- He is currently in a 'serious condition'
- His Miranda rights have been revoked and he is being treated as an exception due to national security
- Residents were warned to stay indoors amid gunfire, flash-bang explosions and tear gas
- On his apprehension - jubilant crowds took to the streets of Boston to thank police, FBI and law enforcement officials - chanting 'USA!'
- Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, killed after explosions and machine gun fire on Thursday night
- Both suspects are brothers from the Russia region near Chechnya and had lived in U.S. since 2002
By Louise Boyle, James Nye, Simon Tomlinson and Jill Reilly
PUBLISHED: 03:21 GMT, 19 April 2013 | UPDATED: 09:55 GMT, 20 April 2013
The Massachusetts college student wanted in the Boston Marathon bombing was captured wounded, but alive after hiding out in a boat parked in a backyard on Friday evening.
The arrest of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev signaled the end of five days of terror set-off by the double bombing at the marathon finish line and the mayor of Boston, Thomas Menino, was quoted by the Boston Globe as taking to the police scanner to exclaim, 'We got him'.
'I have never loved this city & its people more than I do today. Nothing can defeat the heart of this city .. nothing.'
The bloody endgame came four days after the bombing and just a day after the FBI released surveillance-camera images of two young men suspected of planting the pressure-cooker explosives that ripped through the crowd at the marathon finish line, killing three people and wounding more than 180.
His older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, lay dead in a furious 24-hour drama that transfixed the nation and paralyzed the Boston area with fear.
Relieved law enforcement officers began cheering and clapping after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was arrested and is now in a serious condition at
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and is reported to have lost a great deal of blood.
And thousands of jubilant members of the public took to the streets of Watertown to salute FBI, SWAT, ATF and police officers as they left the scene of Tsarnaev's final showdown.
Neighbors reported that Tsarnaev was 'covered in blood' as he was taken away by law enforcement officials.
Boston police commissioner Ed Davis was celebratory in his tone as he took to Twitter to say, 'It’s a proud day to be a Boston police officer. Thank you all.'
'CAPTURED!!! The hunt is over. The search is done. The terror is over. And justice has won,' the Boston Police Department said on its Twitter account.
Police cornered the younger Tsarnaev around 7 p.m., less than an hour after police lifted a stay-indoors order for the city and its suburbs.
A resident in his 60s, believed to be called David Hanneberry, reportedly went outside to smoke and saw the tarpaulin cover of his boat was disturbed off the top.
..... LOTS more at link (Photos and video)http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -BOAT.html
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